Movies: João Grosso
- 1996
Foreign Land (1996)
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During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring....
- 1995
Pereira Declares (1995)
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Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himsel...
- 2023
Ubu (2023)
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Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and coward character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of...
- 2011
Demain? (2011)
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The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing....
- 1996
The Jew (1996)
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The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's ...
- 1993
A Força do Atrito (1993)
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Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total....
- 2013
Second Hand (2013)
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Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy....
- 1996
Pandora (1996)
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It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a...
- 1996
A Fachada (1996)
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- 1997
Land of Storms (1997)
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Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, come...
- 1995
Tordesilhas - O Sonho do Rei (1995)
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- 1993
Light Traps (1993)
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Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in Alentejo, he knows that sooner or later " they" will find him, yet he does not want to flee with a new identity until he f...
- 1997
Minus 9 (1997)
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This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing i...
- 1992
Requiem for a Daffodil (1992)
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Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara....
- 2009
Kinotel (2009)
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We don`t know much about the future world where people need to visit 'Kinotels'. But we know that going to the cinema has radically changed. It has become a computer directed kind of intimate ritual during which people enter another reality and switc...