Alberto Seixas Santos

E o Tempo Passa (2011)

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger actors ...

Lobos (2007)

The Girl with the Dead Hand (2005)

Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention. ...

Bad (2000)

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off he ...

Paraíso Perdido (1995)

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man ...

Gestures and Fragments (1983)

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, ...

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976 (1978)

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society. ...

The Guns and the People (1977)

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known. ...

Brandos Costumes (1975)

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an ...

Hoje, Estreia (1967)

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

Cruzeiro do Sul (1966)

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

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo (2016)

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo? ...

No Tempo do Cinema (2006)

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

Christmas Inventory (2000)

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas. ...

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter (1998)

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal. ...

Guardian Angel (1998)

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother ...

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista (1994)

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 Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of ...

Step by Step (1990)

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 is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed. ...