José Wallenstein Movies

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...

The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António...

A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and...

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel,...

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed composer of classical music who died on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg, victim of an unidentified cause....

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him...

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end...

Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and...

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like...

Manuela is a sensual medical representative. She is accustomed to walking the path of infidelity, recklessly involving herself with doctors....

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

An approach to the life and work of Jorge de Sena, relying on the testimonies of Mécia de Sena (author of the texts she reads) and the...

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...

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on...