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João Mário Grilo is a Portuguese director, screenwriter, film scholar and film teacher. He was nominated for the Golden Lion in the Venice Film Festival with his 1982 film "A Estrangeira".
Total trailers found: 24
09 November 2009
Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company.
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.
01 January 2000
Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder.
24 October 2002
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences.
02 April 1999
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money.
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 January 1990
At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D.
23 June 2022
The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.
21 May 2006
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
10 March 2012
Indefatigable worker and in multiple artistic fronts, the architect Raul Lino (1879-1974) left us a fundamental work for the understanding of the Portuguese ways of being and inhabiting.
01 January 2003
About the artistic path, the thought and the work of José de Guimarães.
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.
11 April 1997
Julian Nakaura, a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1582, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity.
01 January 1979
Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat.
10 June 1993
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.
05 September 2021
VIEIRARPAD begun with the correspondence between the couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szènes, between 1932-1961.
07 February 1996
About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.
14 May 2014
“The artist, in his movement towards the ideal, upsets the stability of any one society. Society aspires to achieve stability; the artist aims for infinity.
