Pedro Lacerda

Clear Nights (2024)

Two siblings face their problems and undergo a profound inner transformation at a time when they both rediscover themselves. Lidia struggles to cope with her newborn baby: she can't handle the expectations, doesn't recognize her body, and distances herself ...

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. ...

Could Have Waited For August (2024)

Xavier, a village boy, falls for Laura, neighbor's granddaughter who visits her grandfather annually. Despite flirting at summer dances, Xavier believes he has no chance with her. ...

Black Feather (2024)

After the death of his mother, Carlos returns to his childhood home. During a long night, Carlos is confronted with the many neighbors of his hometown, who will try to test him and lead him to madness. ...

Caiu (2024)

In the 50s, a poor rural family crosses the Alentejo scrubland to bury a relative. But the road holds a surprise for them: a closed chest, half-buried in the arid soil. Perhaps it's a gift from heaven, perhaps it's the opposite... ...

Blackpot (2023)

A reorganization within a crime syndicate. ...

Sombras Brancas (2023)

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure t ...

Âncora (2023)

Anna and Helena, both mothers, struggle with two forced separations. Anna, a Ukrainian refugee, tries to survive in Lisbon with her daughter Kamilla. Helena, Portuguese, survives the death of her son. The two women become friends the day they meet at the F ...

Armários Vazios (2022)

When her husband dies, Dora Rosário, a woman trapped in the dark years of the Estado Novo, begins to live only for her daughter Lisa and for the memory of her deceased husband, who accompanies her daily. However, when she discovers that her husband was no ...

Alma Viva (2022)

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over ...

Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)

Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother's apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former h ...

Pê (2022)

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father's ho ...

Encoberto (2022)

Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store will be the ideal moment to catch them in the act. After a conversation with Ricardo, one of the group's members, Vargas questions his view of the ...

Um Filme em Forma de Assim (2022)

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us. ...

Terra Nova (2021)

Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's "The Lugger" and "In the Seas of the End of the World", this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the ...

O Sítio da Mulher Morta (2021)

He has everything that the destiny wanted and that he has been able to expand: fertile lands as far as the eye can see, cattle, exceptional wines and cigars matured in the long voyages of the boats coming directly from the Caribbean, more precisely from Cu ...

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. ...

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (2020)

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portu ...

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: ...

St. Louis (2019)

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, ...

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. ...

Forbidden Images (2019)

David envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only meet through the Polaroid pictures he takes of them. ...

Parque Mayer (2018)

Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Ma ...

Moscatro (2018)

The world seen through Ana Lara's eyes. Between illness, manipulation and love, Ana Lara lives in constant confrontation with her own escape. ...

Ruth (2018)

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria ...

Der Lissabon-Krimi: Der Tote in der Brandung (2018)

Two years after consorting with the wrong people cost him his job as public prosecutor, Eduardo Silva is a measly defense attorney, who works from his hotel room. Loosing a bit from her fellow-angler uncle, he gives a shot as unpaid apprentice to freshly-g ...

Armpits (2016)

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry. But Lazarus has ...

The Secret Agent (2015)

An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution. ...

The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family (2014)

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his tim ...

A Herdade dos Defuntos (2013)

A dehydrated man trespasses an estate and ends up by losing his freedom. ...

Lines of Wellington (2012)

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

O Primogénito (2012)

Pedro and Laura are a modern couple and, for all friends, exemplary. Pedro is a young and successful manager who runs a parent company and has succeeded in a more successful case. Your wife, Laura, is also an architect. He has fun friends with whom he usua ...

Assim Assim (2012)

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

Anita Garibaldi (2012)

A biographical drama about revolutionary Anita Garibaldi. ...

Crónica Parisiense (2011)

Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this ...

O Dez (2010)

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology. ...

Respiro (2010)

Fuga Sem Destino (2007)

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch (2006)

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, a fact that leaves her heir to an incalcul ...

Filme da Treta (2006)

After having an "apocalyptic vision" in a peep-show cabin, Zezé decides to enter in the Order of the Caracolários Descalços. Tóni visits his friend, that is in a monastery. The reencounter of these old friends makes them go back in time and remember th ...

Janelas Verdes (2006)

Andre Valente (2004)

An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a curious and ...

Daqui p'ra alegria (2004)

Three girls from the Lisbon suburbs, Bruna, Marta and Sara, are having a bit of fun. They've discovered that people in general are prepared to give things to young, attractive and good-natured people, and they exploit this shamelessly. Francisco, a neighbo ...

Querença (2004)

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriou ...