Miguel Martins Movies

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

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...

Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married....

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...

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

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...

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

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen...

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be

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...

Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life:...

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

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

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse,...

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

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

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...

After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors. His only...

A bear is sighted somewhere in the northwest of Trás-os-Montes. The animal causes a natural uproar, but his existence seems to be called into...