Joaquim de Almeida Movies

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil...

In a surreal motel in Los Angeles, the life of several sordid characters intertwine.

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve...

2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French...

An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian...

Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.

A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

Lisbon's traditional Saint Anthony's Weddings have hit rock bottom. At least, that's what Stardust, a major French multinational poised to take over...

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father...

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.

Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where...

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the...

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from...

Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationalist terrorism, Charli works as a chauffeur for...

After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many...

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of...

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is...

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".