Manuel Costa e Silva Movies

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...

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...

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

A man finds a mansion with a strange inhabitant.

A 1985 Portuguese language drama film directed by Manuel Costa e Silva, starring Luis Varela, Teresa Goucho and Vitorino Salomé. The film...

"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.

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

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on...

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

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

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

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