Elso Roque Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother,...

Three boys grow up in war torn Syria.

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

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...

Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes...

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do...

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

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

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and...

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