Paulo Rocha Movies

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident...

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark...

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

A play directed by Silvina Pereira and filmed by Paulo Rocha.

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, according to a 16th century text.

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...

Situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain, which protected it from the cold offshore winds of winter, and between the rivers Man and Eido, which...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

Two friends decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a...

The night of the summer solstice. Fireworks resound between the two banks of the river like a bombardment. On the water, boats appear and disappear....

Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's...

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.