Cleia Almeida

Living Bad (2023)

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter's marriage to enable her own l ...

Bad Living (2023)

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpec ...

Sombras Brancas (2023)

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure t ...

The Home Fairy (2022)

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but a ...

Pê (2022)

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father's ho ...

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 ...

Next Door: Love (2021)

With the pandemic, Marta discovers that the partner she idealized is, after all, violent. Trapped in the apartment with her abuser, she must choose between her safety and that of her son and the end of a seemingly perfect life. ...

Keep Me Company (2019)

Sílvia rents a house for the weekend in the south of Portugal with the intention of meeting her secret lover, Clara. Between tanning sessions and swims in the pool, this perfect couples weekend begins to take a turn due to a mysterious evil. Strange event ...

Fátima (2017)

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima. ...

Operation Autumn (2012)

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

Crowned Maria (2012)

This really happened, or so it is said. In 1840, a few years after the Portuguese Civil War, a young man arrived at a village by the Douro, carrying a book full of stories. Following the teachings of that book, the villagers of Granja do Tedo founded a soc ...

Assim Assim (2012)

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives. ...

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory (2012)

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes. ...

O Fantasma do Novais (2012)

Blood of My Blood (2011)

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week. ...

The Actor's Work (2011)

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develo ...

The Lovebirds (2008)

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in ...

In the Darkness of the Night (2004)

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution. ...

Forget Everything I Told You (2002)

Felizbela loves her husband with obsessive intensity, surrounding him with an explosive mix of passion and jealousy that will inevitably turn into hatred. To keep his attention, she stops at nothing, enduring suffering and humiliation in an attempt to win ...

Rending (2001)

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight. ...

Breathing Under Water (2000)

What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets h ...