João Pedro Bénard Movies
- 2021
Hotel Royal
Hotel Royal52021HD
'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain un...
- 2012
A Woman's Revenge
A Woman's Revenge62012HD
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Rober...
- 2005
The Face You Deserve
The Face You Deserve5.62005HD
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounde...
- 2009
Alfama
Alfama52009HD
A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too. All this exists / All...
- 2022
Worth Your Weight in Gold
Worth Your Weight in Gold02022HD
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitte...
- 2015
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved7.52015HD
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film...
- 2024
Grand Tour
Grand Tour82024HD
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar),a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolv...
- 2024
Banzo
Banzo02024HD
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dy...
- 2023
Sombras Brancas
Sombras Brancas82023HD
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of t...
- 1990
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
The Sound of the Shaking Earth6.21990HD
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'),this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the br...
- 1989
Recollections of the Yellow House
Recollections of the Yellow House8.11989HD
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's wate...
- 2015
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One72015HD
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her se...
- 2017
Coup de Grâce
Coup de Grâce02017HD
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it as...
- 2004
Vanity
Vanity4.52004HD
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isab...
- 2018
Ramiro
Ramiro5.82018HD
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and...
- 2018
Rage
Rage6.82018HD
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his r...
- 2017
Mariphasa
Mariphasa02017HD
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. H...
- 2003
Dead Man's Memories
Dead Man's Memories4.42003HD
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of...
- 2005
The Conquest of Faro
The Conquest of Faro52005HD
Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark a...
- 2009
4 Hearts
4 Hearts6.82009HD
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside t...