Maria Velho da Costa Movies

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life...

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he...

Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.

In 1972, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa published the book As Novas Cartas Portuguesas [New Portuguese Letters],...