Movies: João Botelho

2008
True and Tender is the North (2008)
True and Tender is the North
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Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira....
2022
Young Mr. Cunhal (2022)
Young Mr. Cunhal
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The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho’s camera, in a detective-minded film, in which the early years of...
1994
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista (1994)
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
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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 Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the imag...
1986
A Portuguese Farewell (1986)
A Portuguese Farewell
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In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace....
2010
Oh Lisboa, Meu Lar (2010)
Oh Lisboa, Meu Lar
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A journey inside the tram crossing the city of Lisbon while listening to fragments of Fernando Pessoa's poetry....
1994
Three Palm Trees (1994)
Three Palm Trees
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Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child....
1988
Hard Times (1988)
Hard Times
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A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s....
2023
Blackpot (2023)
Blackpot
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A reorganization within a crime syndicate....
2001
Who Are You? (2001)
Who Are You?
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A historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria de Noronha....
2015
Nos Campos em Volta (2015)
Nos Campos em Volta
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2012
Anquanto La Lhéngua Fur Cantada (2012)
Anquanto La Lhéngua Fur Cantada
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A documentary about the singings of a Portuguese Village that has their own dialect...
2007
A Terra Antes do Céu (2007)
A Terra Antes do Céu
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2014
Four (2014)
Four
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A look at the art of two pairs of brothers, plastic artists: João Queiroz, Jorge Queiroz; Pedro Tropa and Francisco Tropa....
2004
Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill (2004)
Alexandre O’Neill - Tomai lá do O’Neill
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A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes....
2022
Caos do Sodré (2022)
Caos do Sodré
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1978
Alexandre e Rosa (1978)
Alexandre e Rosa
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A short film....
2009
Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe! (2009)
Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!
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"Come and see this world end!" - wrote the the priest António Fontes, father of folk medicine and "burning witches" in Vilar de Perdizes, a desperate plea in his precious monograph of the Barroso region. And I (João Botelho) went. Then I saw the peop...
2007
A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus (2007)
A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus
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Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick"....
2012
La Valse (2012)
La Valse
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A choreographic poem by Maurice Ravel....
2020
Fantasmas do Império (2020)
Fantasmas do Império
02020HD
Ariel de Bigault's work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works of the Portuguese cinema that explored its colonial past. Some directors as...