Jorge Paixão da Costa

Cândido (2024)

A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life ...

Maluda (2021)

Inspired by the biography of the portuguese painter Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro, known as Maluda, who found the stage of her art in Lisbon. ...

Jazzé Duarte (2019)

A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz" ...

Soldier Millions (2018)

A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions. ...

Jacinta (2017)

The story of Jacinta, one of the three children involved in the Marian apparition reported in 1917 at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal. ...

The Mystery of Sintra (2007)

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict betwe ...

O Mergulho (2005)

Based on José Eduardo Agualusa's short story "Bigger Splash," "Mergulho" depicts encounters and missed encounters in love lives, some unlikely, which are dives into life's surprises. ...

Fugas.pt (2003)

Devolvidos (2000)

A document about the memory and life of men and women who lived in a Portuguese-American community and were once repatriated. Tony, Dulce, António, Manuel and Mário have one thing in common: they have been convicted in a harsh justice that repatriated th ...

Goodbye Princess (1992)

Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert ...

Aqui D'El Rei! (1992)

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a ...

Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão (1991)

TV movie from the series "A la Minuta," an action comedy with a very special "gang. ...

Luísa e os Outros (1989)

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto. ...

Ballad of Dog Beach (1987)

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection. ...

Dead Man's Seat (1984)

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many tw ...

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. ...

The Art of Dying Far Away (2020)

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing all their assets, Arnaldo e Barbara still have one decision to make before they formalize their separation: ...

Lápis Azul (2012)

A colonel working for Censorship, widower, learns that his wife read banned books in his absence, "New Portuguese Letters" and "My Lady of Me". The colonel will discover the woman he did not know in life through the poems that she read. As the revolution ...

The Mystery of Sintra (2007)

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict betwe ...

Women (1997)

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life. ...

Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão (1991)

TV movie from the series "A la Minuta," an action comedy with a very special "gang. ...

Luísa e os Outros (1989)

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto. ...