João Bénard da Costa Movies

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

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.

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to...

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

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...

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of...

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...

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