João Cabral Movies

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards...

Over the course of one night, two middle-aged friends—actors in a struggling theater company—wander the streets of Lisbon’s less...

Titus, a Roman general, returns victorious to Rome after years of battle. The sacrifice of the captive queen Tamora’s eldest son sparks a...

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs,...

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. ...

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That...

This fictional documentary traces a poetic cartography based on the journey of a theater group to São Miguel, Natália Correia's...

After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.

1907. The Porto Chamber has just been won by the Republicans, in full monarchy, three years away from the revolution. Republican ideas are taking...

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island"....

Felizbela loves her husband with obsessive intensity, surrounding him with an explosive mix of passion and jealousy that will inevitably turn into...

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise...