António Fonseca Movies

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black...

A biographical drama about revolutionary Anita Garibaldi.

In a remote village in Alentejo, the train is the only connection to the world and to the politics of the capital. The news of the establishment of...

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the...

On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts....

In a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend - the legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a...

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the...

A director is trying to stage the play “The Jew of Linz”, but his dementia and delirium can’t take the production past rehearsals....

Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading...

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with...

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...

It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots...

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of...

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...