Alexandra Lencastre

Live and Let Live (2024)

The world is not enough to cover all the misfortunes that afflict Lucas. An orphan, a loner and a troublemaker, Lucas is a moving target for all sorts of misfortunes. But things are never so bad that they can't get worse: Lucas loses his job and is about t ...

Quero-te Tanto! (2019)

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme. ...

Parque Mayer (2018)

Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Ma ...

2 Minutos (2016)

Two people have a date in the evening. ...

O Leão da Estrela (2015)

The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win? ...

Gesto (2011)

Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community ...

Disquiet (2010)

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this m ...

Twist of Fate (2009)

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada's cellular telephone. A new wor ...

Corruption (2007)

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. ...

Trial (2007)

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's da ...

O Capacete Dourado (2007)

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines ...

Outside (2004)

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives f ...

The Immortals (2003)

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to r ...

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA (2003)

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A. ...

A Falha (2002)

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old ...

The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader. ...

O Delfim (2002)

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film's narrator) comes t ...

Um Passeio no Parque (2000)

Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife with another woman, and their son becomes seriously hill. ...

Traffic (1998)

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include a ...

The Mutants (1998)

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

Three Palm Trees (1994)

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child. ...

The End of the World (1993)

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.. ...

Poor George (1993)

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there. ...

Vertigem (1992)

Maria Gouveia is a character with a secret past, which she intends to hide at all costs. In her eagerness to hide that past, she commits a homicide, witnessed by a man whose existence she is unaware of. That man is the lawyer Óscar Summavielle, who manage ...

Cold Land (1992)

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he'll close a big deal. ...

Eternidade (1992)

Returning to his homeland after many years away, Juvenal, an agricultural engineer with liberal ideas, finds himself caught up in the social unrest on the island of Madeira that preceded the 1974 revolution, which is condemned by his brother Álvaro, an em ...

Requiem for a Daffodil (1992)

Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara. ...

To the Bitter End (1991)

Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understan ...

Xavier (1991)

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

End of Conservation (1990)

A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women. ...

Lovely Child (1990)

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. ...

A Última Viagem (1989)

Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss (1988)

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. ...

Agosto (1988)

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time. ...

Meia Noite (1988)

A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstition, and is devastated when it comes true. She learns that someone in the city foresaw the same fate, and against his wishes, she returns to confront him, o ...