João Braz Movies

Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the fascist dictator who reigned the longest time in the world, falls from a chair and suffers a stroke. When he returns to...

Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human...

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

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

Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean....

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years...

The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee....

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes...

A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She...

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

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an...

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 crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...