Joaquim Pinto Movies

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live....

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of...

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

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the soundtrack to Johnny Guitar in his head....

It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of...

A portrait of a group of teens from a Rio de Janeiro slum learning to surf.

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability...

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

A visualization of Alberto Caeiro's (Fernando Pessoa's) poem 'O Guardor de Rebanhos' (The keeper of Herds AKA the keeper of Flocks).