Miguel Martins Movies

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward...

Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he flees...

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental...

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after...

Three men wash ashore in a forgotten cove, where time seems to have stood still. Surrounded by volcanic rocks and tides, they find themselves...

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O...

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

In the year when cinema was paralyzed in Portugal due to lack of funding, a group of friends embarks on a mysterious expedition to see wolves in...

An intimate documentary exploring friendship, resilience, and love among a group of young people in Madrid. Through a cinéma...

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother,...

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...

Mirages have been reported along the Spanish coast. A young French woman travels to San Sebastián to observe these visual aberrations. There,...

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and...

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...

In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand...

The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by...