Acácio de Almeida Movie Trailers
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Blood Trailer (1989)
07 December 1989
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested.
Guardian of the Night Trailer (1986)
16 April 1986
With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night.
Vanishing Point Trailer (1984)
17 May 1984
An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.
Dina and Django Trailer (1983)
29 April 1983
Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family.
Maine-Ocean Express Trailer (1986)
16 April 1986
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors.
A Woman's Revenge Trailer (2012)
29 March 2012
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man.
The Sound of the Shaking Earth Trailer (1990)
22 October 1990
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost.
Down by Life Trailer (2020)
29 October 2020
A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.
In the White City Trailer (1983)
11 March 1983
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
Silvestre Trailer (1982)
06 May 1982
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 Portuguese Farewell Trailer (1986)
16 April 1986
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.
The Black Book Trailer (2018)
03 October 2018
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth.
Hovering Over the Water Trailer (2013)
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.
Correspondences Trailer (2016)
04 August 2016
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal.
Circle of Passions Trailer (1983)
06 July 1983
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Low-Flying Aircraft Trailer (2002)
09 May 2002
Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed.
Masks Trailer (1976)
14 June 1976
The film sought to portray a relatively unknown and isolated rural world and, through a highly politicized discourse, affirmed the genuineness of “folk culture.
The Other Night Trailer (1988)
23 July 1988
When Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run.
The Invisible Collection Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
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 life.
Cinema Trailer (2014)
10 July 2014
A man prepares an old ritual in a temple abandoned by its followers.
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado Trailer (1996)
22 April 1996
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and beauty of his voice.
Lives Trailer (1984)
11 October 1984
Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.
Past and Present Trailer (1972)
27 February 1972
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira.
The Conversation Is Over Trailer (1982)
13 May 1982
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris).
Meus Amigos Trailer (1974)
11 March 1974
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.
The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976 Trailer (1978)
17 March 1978
The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
Manoel’s Destinies Trailer (1984)
02 August 1984
When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road.
Good Portuguese People Trailer (1981)
18 November 1981
Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal European style democracy.
The Daughter Trailer (2003)
24 April 2003
Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor.
The Guns and the People Trailer (1977)
01 November 1977
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known.
Sunday Afternoon Trailer (1966)
13 April 1966
Reflections on life and death unfold through the eyes of Jorge, the head doctor of the Haematology Department, whose world is plunged into despair when he falls in love with Clarisse, a woman suffering from advanced leukemia.
What Shall I Do With This Sword? Trailer (1975)
09 June 1975
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
Love Torn in a Dream Trailer (2000)
22 November 2000
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith.
Island of Loves Trailer (1982)
08 June 1982
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China.
Ana Trailer (1982)
15 September 1982
Centered on an elderly matriarch and her family in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal. An exploration of the cycle of life and death, using the main character, Ana, as an emblem of a life lived in harmony with nature and tradition.
Dans un miroir Trailer (1986)
02 January 1986
A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.
Fragments of an Alms-Film Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants.
Neither Bird Nor Fish Trailer (1978)
01 September 1978
A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens.
Lent Trailer (2003)
18 May 2003
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years.
Desert Rose Trailer (1989)
18 February 1989
Drawing on a wide mosaic of texts from figures like Montaigne and Kafka, literary and philosophical fragments are used to illustrate and reflect on the human condition.
The Death of Carlos Gardel Trailer (2011)
21 September 2011
Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends.
Adeus Senhor António Trailer (2020)
05 September 2020
Film adaptation of "The letter from the hunchback to the locksmith" by Fernando Pessoa's heteronym Maria José.
Enchanted Isles Trailer (1965)
15 March 1965
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables.
The Iron Cross Trailer (1968)
03 August 1968
Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.
La novia de medianoche Trailer (1997)
30 October 1997
A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Galicia in the late nineteenth century isolated from the world to hide a serious incident occurred in the family ten years earlier.
Cold Land Trailer (1992)
22 June 1992
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
Poor George Trailer (1993)
26 February 1993
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work.
No one Twice Trailer (1985)
24 April 1985
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation.
A Pousada das Chagas Trailer (1972)
25 February 1972
A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.
Deus Pátria Autoridade Trailer (1976)
21 February 1976
The history of Portugal since the Republican revolution of 1910 to the revolutionary period following the military coup of April 24, 1974, recounted with a marxist perspective, using historic sound and film documents.
O Construtor de Anjos Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and also from the Hammer films and the Saxon plastic tradition of romanticism.
The Fascination Trailer (2003)
26 December 2003
An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
Tras-os-Montes Trailer (1976)
10 June 1976
The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east Portugal, a tapestry of micronarratives where past, present and future become intertwined.
Jaime Trailer (1974)
02 May 1974
Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho Trailer (1986)
25 February 1986
Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation.
Acentuado Arrefecimento Nocturno Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
The original family is expelled from Eden and forced to face the hardships of existence. However, each of its members sees the world differently.
Vieirarpad Trailer (2021)
05 September 2021
VIEIRARPAD begun with the correspondence between the couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szènes, between 1932-1961.
Dearest Executioners Trailer (1977)
20 April 1977
This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them.