Movies: Acácio de Almeida

  • 1989
    Etoile

    Etoile (1989)

    Etoile

    5.81989HD

    An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem....

    Etoile
  • 2000
    Love Torn in Dreams

    Love Torn in Dreams (2000)

    Love Torn in Dreams

    7.52000HD

    A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the...

    Love Torn in Dreams
  • 1986
    Maine-Ocean Express

    Maine-Ocean Express (1986)

    Maine-Ocean Express

    5.81986HD

    "Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will...

    Maine-Ocean Express
  • 2016
    Correspondences

    Correspondences (2016)

    Correspondences

    6.62016HD

    Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are...

    Correspondences
  • 1988
    The Mask

    The Mask (1988)

    The Mask

    7.31988HD

    A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more successful. But the mask cannot conceal the evil in his soul....

    The Mask
  • 1996
    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado (1996)

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    51996HD

    At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and beauty of his voice. The Duchess dies and her son, the Duke of Arcos, takes charge of the inheritance...

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
  • 1982
    Ana

    Ana (1982)

    Ana

    6.81982HD

    Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes care of granddaughter until granddaughter is obliged to do same for grandmother. The scenes between the ...

    Ana
  • 2019
    The Portuguese Woman

    The Portuguese Woman (2019)

    The Portuguese Woman

    6.42019HD

    North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are runn...

    The Portuguese Woman
  • 2003
    That Day

    That Day (2003)

    That Day

    5.52003HD

    A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other....

    That Day
  • 2018
    Rage

    Rage (2018)

    Rage

    6.82018HD

    Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread neede...

    Rage
  • 1987
    A Flame in My Heart

    A Flame in My Heart (1987)

    A Flame in My Heart

    6.31987HD

    The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an “established” journalist. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman...

    A Flame in My Heart
  • 2008
    Secrets

    Secrets (2008)

    Secrets

    52008HD

    After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the curre...

    Secrets
  • 1988
    Agosto

    Agosto (1988)

    Agosto

    6.81988HD

    Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time....

    Agosto
  • 1984
    City of Pirates

    City of Pirates (1984)

    City of Pirates

    7.21984HD

    A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities....

    City of Pirates
  • 1982
    Silvestre

    Silvestre (1982)

    Silvestre

    6.11982HD

    A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant....

    Silvestre
  • 1982
    A Estrangeira

    A Estrangeira (1982)

    A Estrangeira

    01982HD

    The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of...

    A Estrangeira
  • 1989
    Blood

    Blood (1989)

    Blood

    6.81989HD

    Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is est...

    Blood
  • 1998
    The Mutants

    The Mutants (1998)

    The Mutants

    7.21998HD

    Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer....

    The Mutants
  • 1993
    Hovering Over the Water

    Hovering Over the Water (1993)

    Hovering Over the Water

    7.11993HD

    Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. ...

    Hovering Over the Water
  • 1986
    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (1986)

    Treasure Island

    6.21986HD

    Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures....

    Treasure Island