Beatriz Batarda Movies

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat. A...

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to...

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the...

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her...

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is...

It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of...

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...

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors,...