Vasco Santana

Lisbon (1956)

For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems chal ...

O Dinheiro dos Pobres (1956)

Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his carefree ways, and commits a robbery. Manuel knows the robber is Pedro, but he learned it in Catholic confe ...

O Costa d'África (1954)

Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he ...

O Comissário de Polícia (1953)

Eram Duzentos Irmãos (1952)

A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter the navy. A girl accepts to show a fake love interest in him as part of the plan, and ends up really enamoured. ...

O Zé já não é Analfabeto (1952)

O Zé Analfabeto Faz Exame (1952)

O Zé Analfabeto nos CTT (1952)

O Zé Analfabeto na Vida Corrente (1952)

O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito (1952)

Confissões de um Analfabeto (1952)

Ribatejo (1949)

It is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the arenas of bulls. ...

Fado, a Singer's Story (1947)

Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but ...

Camões (1946)

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

The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)

A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love. ...

The Tyrannical Father (1941)

While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques. ...

Famalicão (1941)

Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal. ...

A Song of Lisbon (1933)

Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Cas ...

O Costa d'África (1954)

Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he ...

The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)

A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love. ...

The Tyrannical Father (1941)

While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques. ...