Anabela Teixeira

Anamorphosis (2019)

A college professor and maverick exorcist recruits a bunch of gifted college misfits to help him on his most dangerous quest yet. ...

Adelaide (2018)

In the most anticipated interview of the year, sisters Adelaide, Carolina and Julia Paixão come together with their mother Anita - to recount the events that led to one of the most controversial crimes ever committed in Portugal. ...

The Great Kilapy (2012)

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds him ...

Lápis Azul (2012)

A colonel working for Censorship, widower, learns that his wife read banned books in his absence, "New Portuguese Letters" and "My Lady of Me". The colonel will discover the woman he did not know in life through the poems that she read. As the revolution ...

Florbela (2012)

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love. ...

O Dez (2010)

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology. ...

Do outro lado do mundo (2008)

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the f ...

O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (2003)

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village ...

La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado (1996)

At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and beauty of his voice. The Duchess dies and her son, the Duke of Arcos, takes charge of the inheritance, whic ...

God's Comedy (1996)

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop. ...

Fado, Major and Minor (1995)

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has ta ...

Tordesilhas - O Sonho do Rei (1995)

Manual of Evasion LX94 (1994)

"Manual of Evasion LX94" is a thought-provoking Dadaist film about time by the Portuguese director Edgar Pêra. It was shot in Lisbon in 1994 and stars Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker. Time is explored from many unusual angles, while P ...

A Viagem (1994)

A couple in search of a different life, move from the city to the countryside and confront unexpected events without breaking their union. ...

The House of the Spirits (1993)

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America. ...

Chá Forte com Limão (1993)

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be ...

Laços de Sangue (1992)

Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Ma ...