António Lopes Ribeiro

The Tyrant Father (2022)

This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings. Chico loves Tatão, who is courted by Artur. Graça loves Chico, but doesn't know he loves Tatão. Santana writ ...

O Primo Basílio (1959)

Jorge, a successful engineer and employee of a ministry and Luísa, a romantic and dreamy girl, star as the typical bourgeois couple of the Lisbon society of the 19th century. ...

The Presidential Journey to Brazil (1957)

The film documents the official visit of the President of the Portuguese Republic, Craveiro Lopes, to Brazil, and his meeting with the President of the Republic of Brazil, Juscelino Kubitschek, in June 20, 1957. ...

30 years with Salazar (1957)

Evocation of Salazar's birth, his passage through Coimbra and salient facts of his political life. ...

As Rodas de Lisboa (1951)

Frei Luís de Sousa (1950)

Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, ...

Lisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã (1948)

Recent population growth in the capital leads to an ambitious development plan, involving public and private initiative as documented here, pinpointing over 60 locations (streets, roads, parks, schools) being modernized or built anew. The narrative and sou ...

O Cortejo Histórico de Lisboa (1947)

Commemorative procession celebrating the eighth centenary of the inbreak of Lisbon from the Moors in 1147 by the forces of D. Afonso Henriques with the help of the Crusaders en route to the Holy Land. ...

Camões (1946)

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões. ...

Guinea-Bissau, Cradle of the Empire (1946)

This documentary, produced in 1946 on the occasion of the half-century of Portuguese presence in Guinea-Bissau, reveals interesting contradictions. The activities and customs of the Guineans are filmed with a lot of attention and sometimes of proximity. Th ...

The Girl Next Door (1945)

The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher. ...

The People We Civilized (1944)

Interesting, almost ethnographic, sequences on peoples of southern and central Angola, show the diversity of their customs and the richness of their cultures. The images often of quality are not devoid of a dominant look that frames them as exotic. The Eur ...

Doomed Love (1943)

The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families. ...

Aniki-Bóbó (1942)

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha. ...

The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)

A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love. ...

The Tyrannical Father (1941)

While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques. ...

The Spell of the Empire (1940)

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, he will find true love, and also learn to value his country and its colonial grandeur. ...

A Revolução de Maio (1937)

The most well-known fascist propaganda film in Portugal. A communist man falls in love with a woman of Salazarian beliefs and changes his way of looking at things. ...

Gado Bravo (1934)

A love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca. ...

Lusitanian Illusion (2010)

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised the ...

O Carro da Estrela (1989)

Documentary on the life of filmmaker and cultural figure António Lopes Ribeiro. ...

Lisboa de Hoje e de Amanhã (1948)

Recent population growth in the capital leads to an ambitious development plan, involving public and private initiative as documented here, pinpointing over 60 locations (streets, roads, parks, schools) being modernized or built anew. The narrative and sou ...