Ricardo Castro

Landes (2013)

A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood ...

Hidden Love (2007)

A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter. ...

In This Tricky Life (2001)

Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up w ...

Princesses (2000)

Sophie hasn't seen her father for at least ten years. She's gotten used to it and has built a life of her own. One morning, she learns that he is wanted for murder and that she has a half-sister. Her name is Virginie, and her motto is: "I don't give a damn ...

The Island of Contenda (1999)

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threat ...

Love Sonnets (1993)

A film adaptation of Michèle-Ann De Mey's "Sonatas 555" - choreographic variations on the highways and byways of love. ...

Gito the Ungrateful (1992)

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and caught between two women: his current French girlfriend Christine and his local old flame Flora. ...

Dust (1985)

A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation. ...

Mint Tea (1984)

A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal ...

Zware jongens (1984)

Gaston grew up on the fringes of society and interacts with other people as little as possible. Leo, on the other hand, is a very bourgeois person. He lives way above his station, but has a heart of gold. Using forged cheques and unsecured credit cards, he ...

The Chosen Ones (1983)

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Colombia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich. ...

Volta ao Mundo, Kamará (2024)