Fernando Lopes

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. ...

Twist of Fate (2009)

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada's cellular telephone. A new wor ...

98 Octanas (2006)

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near. ...

Outside (2004)

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives f ...

Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill (2004)

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes. ...

O Delfim (2002)

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film's narrator) comes t ...

Se Deus Quiser (1996)

"French television came up with the idea of Se Deus Quiser (but they didn't carry it through), which consisted in inviting six European directors to describe their homeland in a film. When my friend Jacques Dercourt contacted me - he had seen Nós Por Cá ...

On the Edge of the Horizon (1993)

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

Gran sol (1989)

A group of fishermen embark on a new adventure to capture the best pieces on the high seas. They leave from the port of Ondárroa, Vizcaya, to depart towards the Atlantic bottom where they usually fish. After several days of fishing, problems begin to emer ...

Matar Saudades (1988)

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. ...

Chronicle of Good Hoodlums (1984)

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees! ...

Cantigamente (1981)

A film by Fernando Lopes. ...

Nós Por Cá Todos Bem (1978)

In his childhood haunts, in the village of Várzea dos Amarelos, the filmmaker films peasant life with its seasonal and daily rituals: a festive meal, the slaughter of a pig, bread-making. The film slides into imagination and blends with fiction: memories ...

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. ...

Sounds and Colours of Portugal (1977)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

Memórias das Minas de São Pedro da Cova (1976)

Habitat-Un Défi (1976)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

O Encoberto (1975)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

Festa, Trabalho e Pão em Grijó de Parada (1974)

One of the first films that looks at the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes. From the mask called "careto" and the popular festival to the everyday reality. ...

A Aventura Calculada (1972)

The various work posts within the complex Physics and Engineering laboratory, and some of their work results across the five continents, in tunnels, bridges, dams and hydroelectric plants. ...

A Bee in the Rain (1972)

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. ...

Era uma vez...Amanhã (1972)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

A Cama ao Alcance de Todos (1969)

A comedy divided into two episodes. The first tells the story of Agildo, a man obsessed with women, who is caught by his wife in bed with the maid. He begins to live a sexual fast so his wife doesn't leave him, but tries to use his imagination to cheat on ...

Hoje, Estreia (1967)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

Tejo - Rota do Progresso (1967)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

Vermelho, Amarelo e Verde (1966)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

Cruzeiro do Sul (1966)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

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 ...

Marçano precisa-se (1962)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

As Palavras e os Fios (1962)

The production and the economic and social relevance of electric cables, may be watched as abstract art to the tunes of jazz. ...

O Voo da Amizade (1961)

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

As Pedras e o Tempo (1961)

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave. ...

Domingos Sequeira (1961)

A TV movie by Fernando Lopes. ...

Acts of Cinema (2018)

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians. ...

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? ...

Senhor X (2010)

Cinema is the true life. ...

A Felicidade (2009)

A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in the radio. The father did not know that the son liked classical music, and the son did not know that that wo ...

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 ...

Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente (2008)

Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the themes and emotions of the work of one of the main authors of portuguese "Cinema Novo". ...

Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side (2007)

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer's personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira doc ...

No Tempo do Cinema (2006)

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa. ...

98 Octanas (2006)

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near. ...

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 ...

Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront. ...