João Matos Movies

On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of...

The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and...

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go...

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing...

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless...

In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this...

Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving...

New Opportunities were a portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early. Applicants will...

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the...

At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he...

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão,...

The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river...

1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him...