Carlos Santos

Zeus (2017)

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be ...

Ice (2016)

The lives of two women intersect. ...

Operation Autumn (2012)

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965. ...

A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses (2012)

The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life. ...

Imagine (2012)

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life. ...

Em Câmara Lenta (2012)

Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador. ...

Alaska (2009)

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old. ...

Lobos (2007)

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 ...

Dot.com (2007)

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turne ...

Alice (2005)

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods. ...

Tudo Isto é Fado (2004)

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickl ...

The Fascination (2003)

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas. ...

The Forest (2002)

Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman. ...

Low-Flying Aircraft (2002)

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death. ...

A Bomba (2002)

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV. ...

Camarate (2001)

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for ...

O Lampião da Estrela (2000)

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club. ...

Tarde Demais (2000)

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive. ...

Fuga (1999)

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide. ...

Zona J (1998)

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla with him. However, the reality the two teens are in complicates their plans... ...

Fátima (1997)

1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal. ...

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. ...

The Curse of Marialva (1991)

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown. ...

A Borboleta na Gaiola (1987)

"The Butterfly in the Cage" is a novel by Luís Filipe Costa adapted to film by the author, it follows the daily lives of several people connected to newspapers, television, film and theater in Lisbon, in the days leading up to the revolution of 25 April 1 ...

The Holy Alliance (1980)

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manip ...