Elso Roque Movies

The film follows the process of occupation of Quinta da Vargem, in Unhais da Serra, by salaried workers, a process that would lead to the...

As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow...

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist...

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...

Short documentary film by António Pedro-Vasconcelos.

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his...

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

This is a documentary about a way of living in Madeira island in Portugal, after the revolution, after April's 25 in 1974. A unique document for the...

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems...

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...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his...

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town....

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.