Joaquim de Almeida Movies

In the late 1940s, a girl runs away from the boarding school where her father has placed her to go and live with her mother, and after spending some...

Didi dreams of improving his life and is trying to leave the community (the slum) where he grew up, when he discovers that he is indirectly working...

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the...

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

The son of a Sardinian shepherd, Sebastiano Catte is a gentle and studious young man. At his mother’s urging, who dreams of seeing him become a...

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to...

Guillermo (Raúl Mérida) is a passionate young college surf casually discovering an old photographic film. In the photographs are...

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and...

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one...

A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual...

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the...

As he does at the end of every summer, Antonio climbs onto his roof to sweep out his chimney. From this vantage point, he sees that repairs have...

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is...

Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to...

Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican...

Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.