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Acácio de Almeida (born 29-06-1938) is a Portuguese cinematographer best known for his work with João César Monteiro, Raúl Ruiz, Alain Tanner, Valeria Sarmiento and Rita Azevedo Gomes.
Total trailers found: 131
23 April 1998
Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
01 October 2018
Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.
03 August 2022
The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a revisitation of geographical places and memories.
12 March 1987
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
10 September 2013
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country.
30 November 2001
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
25 January 1971
Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.
10 May 1988
A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more successful.
22 February 2024
The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River.
22 February 1983
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
01 April 1985
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
01 January 1979
The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director.
03 June 1987
Mércedès, an actress from Paris attempts to break off a difficult relationship with the jealous and possessive stalker Johnny.
27 November 1998
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
09 October 2008
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero .
21 December 1972
Jimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato and the attractive Tamara have to do with Marchese de la Sotta and his henchmen.
08 September 2011
Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour.
31 October 2018
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
27 December 2014
Biographical documentary Solveig Nordlund says that 50 years of life in Portugal. The evolution of Portugal from fascism to the current crisis.
02 February 1996
It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room.
16 November 2017
Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed.
06 April 1988
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection.
09 February 2012
A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.
05 May 1988
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations.
09 April 1985
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company.
06 May 2018
Departing from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet lived as the background.
16 November 2006
Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like.
22 February 1984
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
01 January 1970
The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes.
01 February 1982
The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder.
19 August 1998
Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive.
14 October 1970
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity.
16 June 2010
The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory.
23 July 1986
A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
21 January 2009
Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool.
01 January 1967
An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Ferguson, and subsidiary industries for car parts.
04 December 2025
In 2017, in Portugal, devastating wildfires destroyed forests and killed children and adults; some died in their villages, others were trapped on a road.
25 February 2000
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another.
12 July 2019
Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation.
04 June 2003
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house.
03 November 1967
World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device
01 January 1986
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
25 June 1985
Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone).
17 March 1989
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
17 May 1996
Alex is a famous singer who lives in a big mansion. One quiet night, a hooded stranger comes into his home, shoots the butler and then takes the mask out.
24 July 2013
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft.
20 July 2001
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 their love story.
23 August 1995
On the Paris-Lisbon train, Marina has just accidentally killed her ‘friend’ Bruno during an argument.
01 January 1978
An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a cinematographic chronicle of the rural worker in the area of Montemor-o-Velho.
26 September 2001
In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend.
28 February 2019
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal.
19 May 1978
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
11 July 2016
The stories of Nasreddin carry out a reversal of 'point of view' which shatter our established way of seeing things, people, the world and their relationships.
24 October 2018
Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film crews during the preparation for a shot.
01 January 2017
The plan of issues, since 1962, an alive and continuous legacy of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
23 April 2016
Using texts and landscapes belonging to Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and to a life of work dedicated to landscape architecture, João Mário Grilo composes this poetic documentary about the evocative power of nature and man.
