Adelaide João Movies

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his...

The story of a family of bull fighters.

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That...

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his...

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better...

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.

The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics...

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering...

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten...