João Braz Movies

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the...

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political...

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.

1975, the year after the Carnation Revolution. Eduarda, João and Mick come from Northern Europe to work in the co-ops in the occupied farms of...

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a...

A choreographic poem by Maurice Ravel.

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place...

A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days...

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to...

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He...

A documentary about the singings of a Portuguese Village that has their own dialect

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years...

A view of rising dependence to credits in the shadow of a overgrowing economical crisis in a consumers society.