João Pedro Bénard Movies
- 2024
Banzo
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1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the...
- 2024
Grand Tour
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Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married....
- 1989
Recollections of the Yellow House
Recollections of the Yellow House8.31989HD
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...
- 2015
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One7.12015HD
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...
- 2017
Mariphasa
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Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him....
- 1991
Xavier
Xavier6.41991HD
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
- 2019
Patrick
Patrick5.92019HD
Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a...
- 1981
Oxalá
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A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
- 2023
Sombras Brancas
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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...
- 2018
Ramiro
Ramiro5.82018HD
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and...
- 2015
Ashes and Embers
Ashes and Embers4.82015HD
Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way...
- 1991
Alex
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The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
- 2018
Rage
Rage6.82018HD
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...
- 2004
Querença
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In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to...
- 2021
Hotel Royal
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'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain...
- 2004
Vanity
Vanity4.52004HD
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together...
- 1993
The End of the World
The End of the World5.71993HD
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..
- 2009
4 Hearts
4 Hearts6.82009HD
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside...
- 1999
Nightfall
Nightfall6.11999HD
A largely plotless, fado-scored journey through the gloomy cobblestone streets, zombie bars, and fetid basements of a sordid harbor town populated by...
- 1984
Manoel’s Destinies
Manoel’s Destinies6.81984HD
When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually...