João Cabral Movies

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Over the course of one night, two middle-aged friends—actors in a struggling theater company—wander the streets of Lisbon’s less...

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards...

Titus, a Roman general, returns victorious to Rome after years of battle. The sacrifice of the captive queen Tamora’s eldest son sparks a...

This fictional documentary traces a poetic cartography based on the journey of a theater group to São Miguel, Natália Correia's...

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That...

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

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

1907. The Porto Chamber has just been won by the Republicans, in full monarchy, three years away from the revolution. Republican ideas are taking...

Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is...

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. ...

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...