Películas de Luís Alberto

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering...

A middle-aged businessman, a neo-liberal, returns to Portugal to realize the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national...

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled...

Written in 1962, a classic piece by Luís de Sttau Monteiro, in a production by Artur Ramos. The play takes place during the English...

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic...

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the...

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave...

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

Joana receives her grandfather’s ashes. At home, she finds his voyage diary that belonged to her grandfather and decides to recreate that...

Antonio Botto and Fernando Pessoa, two renowned Portuguese poets, exchanged fictitious love letters. Botto wrote under his own name, and Pessoa...

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of...

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed...