Manuel João Vieira

Arrabalde (2024)

Two friends cannot find their way around the city of Lisbon. It is a film, which could be a poem, that has no genre and serves as a bridge between the narratives, forms, and dreams of the characters they encounter. ...

Primeira Obra (2023)

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of ...

Roast Bruno de Carvalho - Lisboa (2022)

Mosquito (2020)

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mysti ...

Arquivos Kino-Pop (2019)

Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra. ...

Magnetick Pathways (2019)

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse. ...

Cabaret Maxime (2018)

A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be. ...

The Portuguese Falcon (2015)

A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar i ...

Eclipse em Portugal (2014)

Tó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal, the hand of a friend and Anita knows the drummer for who ends up falling in love. ...

Casa Manuel Vieira (2013)

Manuel João Vieira shows us his home - or homes - and the characters who live there. The starting point is the characters' definition and the Casa Manuel Vieira exhibition. The Italian neighbour and the accidental tourist help us create scenarios on the m ...

Disquiet (2010)

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this m ...

6=0 Homeostética (2008)

Documentary about the not-likely-legendary Portuguese art group from the 1980's. ...

Um Mundo Catita (2007)

The burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his sexy dentist who is already the fiancée of a well-off executive. The adventures and misadventures of the singer in this wonderful new world are told with t ...

Rio Turvo (2007)

A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the "swamp-flower", protégée of a Socratic Director ( ...

Tebas (2007)

Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy "King Oedipus" crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic "On the Road". The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his ori ...

O Candidato Vieira (2004)

Satirical rock star runs for president of Portugal. ...

I'll See You in My Dreams (2003)

The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he fin ...

A Man is not a Cat (2001)

A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that ...

A Janela (Maryalva Mix) (2001)

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is u ...

April Captains (2000)

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it. ...

Facas e Anjos (2000)

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João ...

Far Away from Here (1994)

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal's Alentejo region to a new owner. Film's overly protracted opening has car's drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until th ...

Pax (1994)

Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only knows that the recipient's name is João. When she meets an old prostitute, Esmeralda, the two join force ...

A Força do Atrito (1993)

Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total. ...

Lovely Child (1990)

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn't father and doesn't like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class. ...

Blood (1989)

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we're never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is estab ...

Cabaret Maxime (2018)

A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be. ...

O Candidato Vieira (2004)

Satirical rock star runs for president of Portugal. ...

The Lady of Lapa (2004)

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A Janela (Maryalva Mix) (2001)

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is u ...