Alexandre Gonçalves

Killing the Saudades (1988)

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. ...

Revolution (1976)

Filmed on the streets of Lisbon, after the 25th of April, with a Super 8 camera, it documents the political propaganda posters, graffiti and murals of revolutionary ideology inscribed on the city's walls. ...

O Encoberto (1975)

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

Falamos de Rio de Onor (1974)

A borderland village of Trás-os-Montes, 27 km away from Bragança, Rio de Onor preserved - due to its isolated location - the old communitarian practices, of farmers and shepherds, that define it as an important and unmistakable center of this region. ...

Sofia and Sexual Education (1974)

After her mother's death, Sofia returns from a Swiss college to her family's luxurious villa, in Cascais. Through the relashionship between her father, Henrique, and his lover Laura, she will discover the complexity, egothistic, discrete and hypocrite way ...

O Mal-Amado (1974)

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 attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short lived bec ...

One Hundred Times Lost (1973)

Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in Lisbon for holidays, but also trying to escape from a mysterious, dark passion. Artur and Joana come together, f ...

A Bee in the Rain (1972)

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. ...

O Recado (1972)

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal. ...

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1972)

"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 useless to try" - João César Monteiro ...

Era uma vez...Amanhã (1972)

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

Vilarinho das Furnas (1971)

Situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain, which protected it from the cold offshore winds of winter, and between the rivers Man and Eido, which irrigated the fields around it, the village of Vilarinho das Furnas was destroyed in 1969. This documentary provi ...

Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga. ...

He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes (1970)

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 shoes. ...

Albufeira (1968)

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a film promoting tourism in the Algarve city (such as Lisbon, Jardim da Europa), showing, however, the authorial and experimental brand of António Macedo, a of the founders of ...

Hoje, Estreia (1967)

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

Tejo - Rota do Progresso (1967)

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

A metafísica dos chocolates (1967)

Vermelho, Amarelo e Verde (1966)

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. ...

Belarmino (1964)

A portrait of Belarmino Fragoso, a veteran boxer in Lisbon nearing the end of his career. In a blend of reportage and re-enactment, the many vices of the once national featherweight champion are revealed against a background of the grim economics of boxing ...

As Palavras e os Fios (1962)

The production and the economic and social relevance of electric cables, may be watched as abstract art to the tunes of jazz. ...

As Pedras e o Tempo (1961)

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

A Almadraba Atuneira (1961)

The life of tuna fishermen and their families during the fishing season on Pumpkin Island in Tavira (Algarve). The documentary depicts their fishing methods and their return home after fishing. This was the last activity of "frame" or "almadraba" tuna fish ...

We Talk About António Campos (2009)

A portrait of António Campos, an extraordinary cineaste that was called an amateur, one of the most unique Portuguese directors due to the way he filmed the country on the 1960 and 1970's. Considered as a director out of the mainstream, a loner, instincti ...