Elso Roque Movies

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what...

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen...

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't...

This is a documentary about a way of living in Madeira island in Portugal, after the revolution, after April's 25 in 1974. A unique document for the...

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on...

In an empty theatre, a woman is watching an American film - "Ma's Sin" - which tells the weird revenge story of a middle-aged wife, driven mad by...

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the...

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his...

The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor...

A old portuguese tail

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a film promoting tourism in the Algarve city (such as Lisbon, Jardim...

Chronicle of resistance and hope - about Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes: roots of the past, discourse of the future, the current reality.

A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only...

Jorge Lopes is a journalist in a Lisbon daily newspaper. He does story after story in the Portuguese capital, covering all the aspects of its life,...

A documentary about a small touristic village in Algarve, Southern Portugal.