António da Cunha Telles

Simon Calls (2020)

It's last week at school, but Simon's not studying for his finals. His parents have divorced and seem to be waiting for a change that never comes. Simon gets tired of waiting. Could he get a one-way ticket to the USA? Would it be possible to make objects e ...

América (2011)

In a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who ...

Under My Skin (2011)

On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him. ...

Amor Cego (2010)

Sweet Valentine (2010)

Ivan, small-time bandit, crosses paths with Sonia, a young woman from the provinces who has recently come to Paris. He hates her from first sight. She falls madly in love with him right from first sight. It's settled: this cruel man will be her Prince Char ...

Dores & Amores (2010)

Júlia is approaching 30 and works as the director of a modeling agency. Single for quite some time, she is in love with Jonas. However, he is not interested in commitment and is involved with a Portuguese pastry chef, who has a fetish for lingerie. ...

How to Draw a Perfect Circle (2009)

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle. ...

The Dead Queen (2009)

Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father. ...

True and Tender is the North (2008)

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira. ...

The Easy Way (2008)

Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event. ...

Sleepwalking Land (2007)

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transport ...

Fragile(s) (2007)

Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon. ...

The Mystery of Sintra (2007)

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict betwe ...

Theresa: The Body of Christ (2007)

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader. ...

Flesh of My Flesh (2006)

A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer. ...

Fin de curso (2005)

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typi ...

Volpone (2004)

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends". ...

Kiss Me (2004)

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free. ...

Maria e as Outras (2004)

Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be hap ...

Le pays des enfants perdus (2004)

In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant. ...

Anatomy of Hell (2004)

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable". ...

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 ...

Il court, il court, le furet... (2003)

Married for three years, Pierre and Marion are now divorcing. During umpteenth mediation with the judge, both explained how their love for each other faded away little by little. ...

The Pact of Silence (2003)

Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician ...

Wounded (2003)

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband. ...

Ruy Blas (2002)

Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her. ...

Les Frangines (2002)

After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver. ...

Sex Is Comedy (2002)

A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise. ...

Justice de femme (2002)

Mausolée pour une garce (2001)

Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to get what she wants, she persuades her lover to murder her ex-husband for the life insurance money that wi ...

8 8 (2001)

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back. ...

A Man is not a Cat (2001)

A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that ...

Anjo Caído (2001)

A boy lives with his mother and younger sister. One day, his mother disappears with her lover, leaving the two children alone. António, the older brother, takes care of his sister, Maria da Luz. The little girl is about 10 months old. When she starts walk ...

Mais Tarde (2001)

During the investigation of a case, Teresa Rubens, a judge with a long career, married and mother of children, finds in court, as a defense witness, a former lover of her student days, Sousa Afonso, who owns some lands in Alentejo. ...

Querida Mãe (2001)

The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead. ...

The Invisible Circus (2001)

After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by r ...

Les Filles à papa (2001)

Jean-Jacques Daloiseau has worked as civil servant in the Ministry of Health and his now retired.Jean-Jacques and his old friend Robert have always dreamed of a sailboat and a trip around the world by sailboat.They have found a nice sailboat: Robert has pa ...

Cavaleiros De Água Doce (2001)

After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old. ...

Amor Perdido (2000)

A story about two people (Clara and Tó), from different economic backgrounds, who love each other, but whose love is not accepted by everyone, especially by the father of Clara, who will do everything he can to stop their love. Things go even worse when C ...

The Bird Watcher (2000)

An American ornithologist meets a French student on a trip to the Basque Country in 1975. ...

Aniversário (2000)

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak wi ...

A Noiva (2000)

A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old ...

Hijos del viento (2000)

As part of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Rodrigo, a Spanish shipwreck falls in love with Tizcuitl, the young and beautiful Aztec daughter of Nezuhual, king of Tlacopan, powerful under the emperor Moctezuma. ...

Alta Fidelidade (2000)

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever. ...

Mustang (2000)

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life... ...

Monsanto (2000)

Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationshi ...

Amo-te Teresa (2000)

Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. Immediately, a strong attraction forms betw ...

Quasimodo d'el Paris (1999)

The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town's mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower socia ...

Jaime (1999)

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to ...

Dribbling Fate (1998)

Life has moved too fast for Mane. at the age of 50 he watches the slow sacrifice of his ideals. His wife, Lucy, has locked him in to a daily routine. His work in a small commercial shop and grocer's has worn him out. His dreams have evaporated into the dro ...

Bocage, the Triumph of Love (1997)

The film follows Manuel Maria du Bocage, 18th-century poet, as he travels through the world from orgy to orgy and from excess to excess. ...

Death in Therapy (1996)

Antoine Rivière, a highly-reputed psychoanalyst, is visited by a new patient, Edouard Berg. When Berg claims to have killed his own wife, the doctor suspects he is a compulsive liar. How could he know that he has been caught in a trap and it's already too ...

Foreign Land (1996)

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring. ...

Les Bidochon (1996)

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate. ...

Clubbed to Death (1996)

A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled drug addict. ...

Un asunto privado (1996)

Alex is a famous singer who lives in a big mansion. One quiet night, a hooded stranger comes into his home, shoots the butler and then takes the mask out. Surprisingly, it's a woman. At the beginning she just want to have dinner with him. ...

Pandora (1996)

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa's young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend's friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boa ...

The Jew (1996)

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's éli ...

Fiesta (1995)

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War. ...

Antártida (1995)

A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it. ...

Runaways (1995)

On the Paris-Lisbon train, Marina has just accidentally killed her 'friend' Bruno during an argument. Rushing down the aisle, she meets Prune, who is looking for her father. The two young women hit it off and arrive in Lisbon... ...

La rage au cœur (1995)

Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt her. ...

Une femme dans la tourmente (1995)

Michèle is the new French consul in a South American country. She quickly discovers that the government is, in fact, a dictatorship. Moreover, her seventeen-year-old daughter is involved in the revolution against the regime. ...

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 ...

Le Cœur étincelant (1995)

A young woman is sure that her son is alive ...

The Eagle and the Horse (1994)

French Canadian TV-Movie ...

Passagem por Lisboa (1994)

Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of ...

D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired muskete ...

On the Edge of the Horizon (1993)

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger. ...

Here on Earth (1993)

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a g ...

Rosa Negra (1993)

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Du ...

Coma (1993)

Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment. ...

Shuttlecock (1993)

Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal. ...

Feu Adrien Muset (1992)

Belle Époque (1992)

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love. ...

Dark at Noon (1992)

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate t ...

The Charlots Return (1992)

Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood, and his eye has lately been wandering to others. When his strong-tempered wife catches him with another woman ...

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. ...

1871 (1990)

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871. ...

Dédé (1990)

In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is pr ...

Love Comedy (1989)

According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear. ...

Street of No Return (1989)

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him. ...

Le commissaire épate le FBI (1989)

Contrainte par corps (1988)

A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes. Accused for disturbing public order, and then in the drug trade, she gets to the women's pri ...

Ennemis intimes (1987)

Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the ...

The Jester (1987)

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play. ...

Ballad of Dog Beach (1987)

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection. ...

Exit-exil (1986)

The film follows Duke and Olivia , a troubled couple living in a gloomy city. Duke is a failed, alcoholic saxophonist, while Olivia works as a striptease dancer. Trapped in a toxic environment, Olivia decides to break free from Duke's self-destructive life ...

Saudades Para Dona Genciana (1986)

Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves. ...

Lives (1984)

Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks. ...

To Catch a King (1984)

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal. ...

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. ...

Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia (1976)

The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary process in Portugal, from April 25, 1974 until mid-1976. ...

Meus Amigos (1974)

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten years later, they have lost all their ideals. With Lisbon on the background they discuss politics, love, cultu ...

Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)

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

The Circle (1970)

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters fi ...

Seven Bullets for Selma (1967)

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device ...

Change of Life (1967)

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in t ...

Alta Velocidade (1967)

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Ferguson, and subsidiary industries for car parts. ...

Sunday Afternoon (1966)

Reflections on life and death unfold through the eyes of Jorge, the head doctor of the Haematology Department, whose world is plunged into despair when he falls in love with Clarisse, a woman suffering from advanced leukemia. ...

Catembe (1965)

This documentary shows a typical Sunday in Mozambique's capital, tourist main attractions, an inquest in Lisbon about the perception of the people in the street about what life was like in that African colony (or, as the Government had it then, "province") ...

The Wheat and the Tares (1965)

A sad and strong people living in the huge plains of Alentejo. Their endless struggle for bread, their nostalgic, bewitching songs and their daily toil to turn a dry, barren land into golden wheat fields. ...

Enchanted Isles (1965)

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end. ...

The Circular Triangle (1964)

Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession. ...

The Crime of Aldeia Velha (1964)

Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slowly start believing that she is possessed by the devil. ...

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 ...

The Soft Skin (1964)

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her. ...

The Green Years (1963)

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappin ...

Portuguese Vacation (1963)

Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves. ...

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos (2019)

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos. ...

Born with a Thunderstorm (2017)

The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and hi ...

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? ...

Chamo-me António da Cunha Telles (2010)

António da Cunha Telles is an unavoidable personality of Portuguese cinema. As a producer, he was at the origin of Portuguese New Cinema by producing Paulo Rocha's film Os Verdes Anos, Fernando Lopes film Belarmino and António de Macedo's film Domingo à ...

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 ...