Manuel Costa e Silva Movies

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy...

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

A man finds a mansion with a strange inhabitant.

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she...

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an...

"French television came up with the idea of Se Deus Quiser (but they didn't carry it through), which consisted in inviting six European directors to...

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot...

The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He...

Life of photographer Gérard Castello-Lopes, disciple of Cartier-Bresson.

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

One of the first films that looks at the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes. From the mask called “careto” and the popular...

In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual...