Elso Roque Movies

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 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.

Short documentary film by António Pedro-Vasconcelos.

Hassan approaches an aircraft that crashed in the mountains and discovers a survivor. He decides to carry him to the monastery where he lives with...

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

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his...

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

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

As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow...

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

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

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

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...

When Denis returns from Cambodia, his mother tells him that his father has disappeared, apparently a runaway. But the mystery reigns around this...

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

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems...

Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of...

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town....

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist...