Joaquim de Almeida Movies

In a surreal motel in Los Angeles, the life of several sordid characters intertwine.

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...

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...

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

1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in...

A desperate writer fights for survival when the Mexican mob involves him in murder.

Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and...

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.

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

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

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

A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who...

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

A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own.

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution,...

A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".

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...