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Jorge Silva Melo is a Portuguese actor, theatre director, writer, playwright and translator. In 1973 Melo founded the Teatro da Cornucópia with Luís Miguel Cintra. He received critical acclaim for his work as a playwright.
Total trailers found: 52
08 February 2016
A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much.
18 January 2002
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
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.
29 April 1994
Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner.
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 January 1979
The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director.
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.
11 December 1986
It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.
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.
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.
25 April 2008
When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an artist, and a painter.
01 July 1995
The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the artist's generation, Silva Melo is able to depict the oeuvre and the artistic persona of António Palolo.
21 May 2006
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
24 June 1978
A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.
11 April 1990
Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.
24 July 1991
In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved.
01 October 1977
O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.
31 January 1972
“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, thao
01 January 2013
José de Guimarães's artistic life changed when he went to Africa in 1967 on military service. A revisit to his past.
18 November 2009
Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of formse
01 January 2009
Documentary about the painter Ângelo de Sousa
29 October 2008
A documentary about Gravura, the Portuguese cooperative founded in Lisbon in 1956.
20 December 2004
A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house, prisons, experimental theaters, surrealists, the encounter with José Ernesto de Sousa on the unfolding of Cinema Novo with “Dom Roberto”, Italy, fantasy, Beckett, Genet, Vitor Garcia, the encounter with Luís Miguel Cintra - a life in motion.
01 January 2011
Ana Vieira's place in Portuguese art is unusual: working the trail, the shadow, the passage of light (or bodies?), the reflection, the overlap, the footprint, the memory or planning of the future, her art streak the invisible.
01 January 2012
Jorge Silva Melo's follow-up to his 2007 documentary film "Nikias Skapinakis - O Teatro dos Outros".
01 January 2009
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century.
01 January 1999
Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive Portuguese galleries, the 111 in Campo Grande.
01 January 2006
Documentary about the work of the painter Nikias Skapinakis from the exhibition “Imaginary Bedrooms” which in June 2006 opened at the Museum Arpad Scenes-Vieira da Silva.
08 January 1986
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America.
28 November 2016
The painter Sofia Areal is a singular case in the portuguese arts. Her paintings are expansive, open, solar, vital and affirmative.
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.
22 May 1987
A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
04 February 2000
A girl answers a job interview and little by little her past is revealed and called into question.
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).
01 September 1987
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu.
21 September 2017
One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory.
01 January 1991
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
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.
21 August 1992
Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments.
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.
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.
25 February 1972
A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.
23 July 2009
A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital.
01 January 2017
Fernando Lemos, a creator who stood out for photographing actors, artists and writers in Portugal from the 1940s and 1950s.
18 October 2025
A renowned symbol of Portuguese interventionist theatre, Cornucópia emerged from the darkness of fascism to fight dictatorship on stage.
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.
01 January 1979
A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care.
18 September 1975
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar.
23 March 2019
The subtle story of a man and a woman, with their respective families and situations, which, after some time, coincide by chance.
23 September 2017
In an old house, around a table, under a lamp, four men play a game of cards. This house is a haven where all failures are accepted, where all are allowed.
