Paulo Pires

May I Speak with the Enemy? (2024)

Madrid, Spain, 1936. The young Miguel Gila lives happily with his grandparents in a humble attic; but the outbreak of the Civil War forces him to go to fight. ...

Last Call, Rio! (2023)

Pedro, Kiko and David, three friends in their late thirties, travel to Rio de Janeiro to pick up the lifeless body of Mateo, their best friend from high school, who has died under mysterious circumstances. But when you arrive in Brazil, nothing is what it ...

The Nothingness Club (2023)

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under ...

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. ...

Quero-te Tanto! (2019)

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme. ...

Portugal Não Está à Venda (2019)

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale. ...

Blood Lines (2018)

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup. ...

O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta (2018)

A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years. ...

Rapiscimi (2018)

Alguém Como Eu (2017)

Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help. ...

Zeus (2017)

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be ...

The Death of J.P. Cuenca (2016)

In 2008, a corpse identified by the police with the birth certificate of the writer João Paulo Cuenca was found in an occupied building in Lapa. Inspired by this fact, the movie investigates the theft of the author´s identity in a ghostly Rio de Janeiro ...

At an Uncertain Time (2015)

It's 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional ...

Until Tomorrow, Comrades (2013)

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives. ...

Ein Sommer in Portugal (2013)

Their 20th wedding anniversary is coming up and Liane and Ben want to celebrate it together in Lisbon. In the years of their marriage, the two have had little of each other. While Liane took care of the children and the household, architect Ben jetted arou ...

Bairro (2013)

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco. ...

Quarta Divisão (2013)

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened? ...

Lines of Wellington (2012)

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon's 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...

A Soft Scent of Cinnamon (2012)

Valia is a young woman used to observing others as part of her work, and so reality is becoming a canvas where characters live out a kind of life. She records the same shot with a small video camera: the street in front of her apartment where there is a re ...

Tita Cervera - La Baronesa (2011)

What The Tourist Should See (2009)

Homage to Fernando Pessoa and the city that lies next to the Tagus River. ...

Second Life (2009)

Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had ...

Doomed Love (2008)

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext f ...

Do outro lado do mundo (2008)

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the f ...

The Miracle According to Salomé (2004)

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, b ...

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 ...

The Girl in the Mirror (2004)

A place where putting red lipstick gives life and a broadcast camera takes it, reclaiming lost girls in endoscopic romances into darkness, where they evaporate, inside empty haute couture dresses. ...

The Fascination (2003)

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas. ...

Les Frangines (2002)

After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver. ...

Aniversário (2000)

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak wi ...

O Lampião da Estrela (2000)

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club. ...

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. ...

Five Days, Five Nights (1996)

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain. ...