Elso Roque Movies

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

Luís Medeiros, Azorean painter, meets two odd characters in an exhibit in Lisbon: Inês, a charming woman, and Ed, a sneaky man. The two...

The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an...

In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance,...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way.

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

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...

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly...