José Fonseca e Costa

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José Fonseca e Costa was a Portuguese film director. He was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo. Born in Angola, Costa worked as an assistant to Michelangelo Antonioni before becoming one of the leaders of Portugal's 'Young Cinema' in the 1960s.

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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo Trailer (2016)

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.

Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Ballad of Dog Beach Trailer (1987)

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.

Alto Bairro Trailer (2014)

15 December 2014

In Lisbon 1950, John, 13, decides to invade the neighborhood of prostitutes, nobility and sailors, starting a new stage in his life.

Your Neighbour's Wife Trailer (1988)

01 December 1988

Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter.

The Jew Trailer (1996)

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.

...e Era o Mar Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

What The Tourist Should See Trailer (2009)

01 August 2009

Homage to Fernando Pessoa and the city that lies next to the Tagus River.

Armpits Trailer (2016)

05 May 2016

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry.

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista Trailer (1994)

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.

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch Trailer (2006)

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.

Velhos são os Trapos Trailer (1981)

13 March 1981

Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.

O Recado Trailer (1972)

24 March 1972

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal.

Os Cornos de Cronos Trailer (1991)

04 May 1991

A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl.

Um S Marginal Trailer (1983)

04 August 1983

In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers will be installed.

A metafísica dos chocolates Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

Jogo de Mão Trailer (1983)

02 February 1983

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story.

The Circular Triangle Trailer (1964)

17 December 1964

Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession.

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir Trailer (1976)

20 August 1976

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers.

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.

Las piernas de la serpiente Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

An advertising agent wants to organize a cycling race and finds it difficult to finance it through the contributions of commercial houses.

No Trace of Sin Trailer (1983)

11 February 1983

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.

Five Days, Five Nights Trailer (1996)

25 April 1996

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.

The Killers Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

"Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.

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.

Duplo Exilio Trailer (2001)

13 April 2001

David is born in Portugal but lived his whole life in the US. At 24 is he accused of a crime he didn't commit and is deported to his native country.