Jorge Silva Melo Movies

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the...

Documentary about the painter Ângelo de Sousa

In an old house, around a table, under a lamp, four men play a game of cards. This house is a haven where all failures are accepted, where all are...

A girl answers a job interview and little by little her past is revealed and called into question.

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is...

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...

A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house,...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

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

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a...

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less...

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only...