João Braz Movies

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place...

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations,...

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the...

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years...

A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according...

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...

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...

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She...

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the...

Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men...

"Come and see this world end!" - wrote the the priest António Fontes, father of folk medicine and "burning witches" in Vilar de Perdizes, a...

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care...

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

A documentary about the singings of a Portuguese Village that has their own dialect

A view of rising dependence to credits in the shadow of a overgrowing economical crisis in a consumers society.

A six-year-old girl once more silently witnesses a family break up. Her father comes back with an invitation for a day out.

A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"