A young man coming from the high-bourgeois family, Henry, recives in the barrack where he’s getting the military service Read More »
Tag Archives: José Fonseca e Costa
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »
Ballad of Dog Beach (1987) José Fonseca e Costa, Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog Beach. Read More »
Viúva Rica Solteira Não Fica / Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch (2006) José Fonseca e Costa, Bianca Byington, Cucha Carvalheiro, José Raposo, Comedy, Drama
In the late 19th century, the life of an aristocratic Lady, divided between love and patrimony, as she marries and becomes a widow yet again. Read More »
Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites / Five Days, Five Nights (1996) José Fonseca e Costa, Paulo Pires, Sinde Filipe, Vítor Norte, Drama
Portugal by the end of the 40’s. André escapes from jail and has to leave the country. In Oporto, some of his friends find him a guide, a drunken quarrelsome smuggler named Lambaça, who knows Trás-os-Montes border well.
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O Fascínio / The Fascination (2003) José Fonseca e Costa, Vítor Norte, Sylvie Rocha, José Fidalgo, Drama
A businessman on the verge of bankruptcy receives an unexpected inheritance: a large farm in Portugal’s southern province of Alentejo. But what seems to be his salvation turns out to be his doom. Fascinated by the story of violence committed by his ancestors, the previous owners of the estate, he becomes wrapped up in a hurricane of situations and sensations previously unknown to him.
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