Acácio de Almeida Filmes

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical...

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...

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music...

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual...

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

In this lyrical elegy lamenting the death of Madeleine, her husband, a theater actor, relives his very first memories of her.

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room....

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at...

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

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...

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...