Isabel Abreu

Cidade Rabat (2024)

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company, dances boisterously, gets drunk. A quiet film about letting go morphs into a coming of middle age story. ...

Dialogues After the End (2023)

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, ...

Ubu (2023)

Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and coward character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfre ...

Remains of the Wind (2022)

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in. ...

Worth Your Weight in Gold (2022)

Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness. ...

The Earth of No Return (2020)

Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth. ...

Olga Drummond (2020)

A homage to all Portuguese actors. The news that Olga Drummond, the greatest Portuguese actress of all-time, is arriving to a nursing home for performers provokes agitation between residents and workers. ...

Serpentarius (2019)

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost. ...

Mariphasa (2017)

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything t ...

Uma Vida À Espera (2017)

The story of a man. Maybe two. A father who leaves home taking nothing with him but the mailbox and a suitcase. He sits on a garden bench, on the street, waiting for a son's answer. Every day he sends him a letter and every day he hopes to get a letter bac ...

Fado (2016)

The mysteriously familiar face of a deceased young woman shakes young surgeon Fabian out of his lethargy. On a whim, he leaves Berlin for Portugal, determined to win back his former girlfriend Doro, who works at an architectural company in Lisbon. ...

God Will Provide (2015)

Bunker (2015)

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers. ...

Coro dos Amantes (2014)

Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues. ...

Immaculate (2013)

A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope. ...

E Depois Matei-o (2012)

Two women victims of domestic violence exchange stories through the grids of a prison. One changes the life of another. ...

Signs of Stillness in Meaningless Things (2012)

According to the perpetual lunar calendar: 'When sparks catch a pot of water, it signifies wind. When the hills echo loudly and the sea generates great noise, it signifies tempestuous winds and storms at sea. When dense fog forms at dawn, it signals two da ...

Assim Assim (2012)

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

Soil (2012)

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends. ...

Bloody Night (2010)

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. ...

Voodoo (2010)

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that "likes produce likes," or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contac ...

El Justiciero (2009)

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero". ...

Entre os Dedos (2008)

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities. ...

Uprise (2008)

In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antonio, a boy in Lisbon (2002)

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation. ...

Waking Up (2001)

An artistically shot film that slowly blurs the boundaries between dreams and reality as it builds into an unnerving then touching climax. ...

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. ...

Motionless (2000)

Three people in a car, who will stay there the longest, wins the car. ...