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António Cohen da Cunha Telles was born on February 26, 1935 in Funchal, Madeira. He studied Medicine in the University of Lisbon. He went to Paris around 1956, studying film-making at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC), graduating in 1961.
His directing debut was made with the documentary "Os Transportes" (1962), and starts activity as a producer, becoming one of the essential names of the Portuguese New Cinema (Novo Cinema) movement. He produces "Os Verdes Anos" (1963) by Paulo Rocha and "Belarmino" (1964) by Fernando Lopes. In 1970, Cunha Telles directed his first feature-film, "O Cerco". Meanwhile, he established a distribution company (Animatógrafo) which becomes responsible for a revolution in the kind of cinema seen in Portugal in the first half of the 1970s. Eisenstein, Tanner, Jorge Sanjines, Littín, Glauber Rocha, Vigo, Gilles Carle, Karmitz, among others, became more familiar to the Portuguese audience through that distributor.
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Total trailers found: 119
29 October 2016
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction.
24 May 2003
Married for three years, Pierre and Marion are now divorcing. During umpteenth mediation with the judge, both explained how their love for each other faded away little by little.
27 October 2002
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 compromise her.
20 February 2003
Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband.
01 January 1995
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before.
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.
26 October 2002
After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver.
01 January 1992
Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém.
25 January 1971
Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.
16 January 1996
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured.
08 September 1995
A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
31 December 1994
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema.
31 December 2010
António da Cunha Telles is an unavoidable personality of Portuguese cinema. As a producer, he was at the origin of Portuguese New Cinema by producing Paulo Rocha's film Os Verdes Anos, Fernando Lopes film Belarmino and António de Macedo's film Domingo à Tarde.
15 November 1995
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
25 June 1993
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague.
28 January 2004
A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
04 December 1992
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas.
28 January 2001
After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.
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.
05 June 2014
Adaptation of the Jean-Christophe Ruffin novel
19 February 2001
Jean-Jacques Daloiseau has worked as civil servant in the Ministry of Health and his now retired.Jean-Jacques and his old friend Robert have always dreamed of a sailboat and a trip around the world by sailboat.
21 April 2000
Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent.
09 May 2017
The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and his complete filmography.
05 June 1995
Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt her.
24 August 1994
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
04 November 2004
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's.
05 June 2002
A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another.
29 June 1988
A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes.
19 May 2009
Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro.
14 March 1999
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
01 December 2004
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
09 March 2007
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
20 April 1964
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
09 October 1963
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast.
07 April 1993
Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock".
04 September 1996
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
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.
20 January 1984
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
09 September 1990
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
13 October 2001
A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that she cares.
31 January 1986
Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.
14 July 2006
A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.
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.
17 May 1989
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots.
13 March 2004
In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.
25 June 1996
A young woman visiting Paris misses the last bus home and finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris.
16 April 2008
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event.
03 November 1967
World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device
25 April 1977
The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary process in Portugal, from April 25, 1974 until mid-1976.
11 January 2005
The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigger aggression.
19 February 1995
Michèle is the new French consul in a South American country. She quickly discovers that the government is, in fact, a dictatorship.
29 March 2001
The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
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.
15 July 2005
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.
23 September 2009
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality.
31 October 1987
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
23 February 2001
After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe.
