Jorge Silva Melo Movies

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by...

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man...

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...

A renowned symbol of Portuguese interventionist theatre, Cornucópia emerged from the darkness of fascism to fight dictatorship on stage. Among...

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...

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets...

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

The subtle story of a man and a woman, with their respective families and situations, which, after some time, coincide by chance.

A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house,...

A girl answers a job interview and little by little her past is revealed and called into question.

In an old house, around a table, under a lamp, four men play a game of cards. This house is a haven where all failures are accepted, where all are...

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an...

José de Guimarães's artistic life changed when he went to Africa in 1967 on military service. A revisit to his past.

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a...