José Amaro

O Monstro de Santa Tereza (1975)

A Garça e a Serpente (1952)

Melancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both women al ...

O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito (1952)

O Desterrado - Vida e Obra de Soares dos Reis (1950)

Frei Luís de Sousa (1950)

Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, ...

Camões (1946)

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões. ...

Aldeia da Roupa Branca (1939)

Gracinda is a young laundress who works with Uncle Jacinto, but life hasn't been going well for them. Therefore, she decides to go to the city to convince Chico, her cousin with whom she has fallen in love, to return to the village to help on the business. ...

Sunday Afternoon (1966)

Reflections on life and death unfold through the eyes of Jorge, the head doctor of the Haematology Department, whose world is plunged into despair when he falls in love with Clarisse, a woman suffering from advanced leukemia. ...