Gérard Rousseau

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.

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 wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.

After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successively welcome him to their home, but it is his meeting with Suzanne that will give him a taste for life. She is not of his world, nor of his age, but she will be his last love.

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made up with Claire, he decides to take her along. She's an ideal travel companion and it seems their relationship has not yet exhausted its potential. But moving from Lisbon to Oporto, their fantasy of a second honeymoon clashes with the reality of a world on the verge of a nightmare.

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love. Taking refuge in a cave, they listen to the sounds of a senseless campaign of violence and murder, which is the culmination of the extremism that has long divided their two communities. Nominated for the Golden Leopard at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival.

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.

In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.

아프리카의 북서쪽 해안에 위치한 카보베르데라는 작은 섬나라의 마을. 포르투갈에서 온 간호사 마리아나는 건설현장에서 사고를 당한 레오를 간호한다. 레오는 자신의 처지에 분노하며, 그런 레오를 지켜보는 마리아나는 유럽의 식민지였던 이 땅의 아픈 역사를 생각한다. (2021 포르투갈 영화제)

Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.

유명한 성악가 조아킴(Joachim Dallayrac : 조쉬반 댐 분)이 어느날 갑자기 은퇴를 한다. 은퇴를 한 후 조아킴은 여자 제자 소피(Sophie : 안네 로우셀 분)를 가리키는 일에 전념한다. 어느날 시장에 갔다가 조아킴은 장(Jean : 필립페 볼터 분)이라는 도둑을 만난다. 장에게 가수로서의 자질이 있음을 느낀 조아킴은 장을 집으로 데려다가 노래를 가르친다. 조아킴은 소피에게서 사랑을 느끼고 번민을 한다. 그러나 조아킴은 스승으로서의 본분을 지키려고 노력한다. 그 후 소피의 삼촌 프랑스와가 오페라 가수 경연 대회 소식과 초청장을 들고 온다. 경연대회를 주최하는 스코티(Prince Scotti: 패트릭 바우소 분)는 조아킴과는 원수처럼 지내는 사이다. 20여년 전에 조아킴과 노래 대결을 해서 진 경험을 갖고 있다. 스코티는 다시 아르카스(Arcas : 마크 쉬레이버 분)라는 제자를 키워서 조아킴에게 도전한다. 그러나 이번에는 조아킴이 아닌 조아킴의 제자 장과 소피에게 도전하는 형식을 취하지만...

When Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run. Marie hides the truth from Éric, investigates the accident alone, and soon finds the presumed culprit.

A film made for television, based on the book of the same name by Libera Carlier. A Flemish family decides to spend the summer holidays on de Schelde. Father Janssen buys a second-hand boat and together with his wife and two sons he sets sail. What follows is a sequence of pleasant moments and disappointments, watched by the sceptical mother Janssen.

핏빛으로 가득 찬 지하철. 주인공 알렉스의 아버지가 죽는 것으로 이 영화는 시작된다. 어딘지 모르는 미래, 도시는 STBO라는 질병으로 뒤덮여 있다. 사랑 없는 섹스를 죽음으로 이끄는 이 질병 속에서 알렉스는 리즈라는 여인과 동거 생활을 한다. 한편 아버지의 친구들은 알렉스를 찾아와 아버지를 죽인 것은 미국 갱단의 여자 보스라는 얘기를 들려준다. 그리고 손이 빠르기로 소문난 알렉스의 속임수 트럼프가 필요하게 될 것임을 덧붙인다. "리즈, 나를 잊어버려. 너의 몸에 남아 있는 나의 지문이 지워지도록 남자들을 만나라. 울지 말고 나를 기억하지도 말라." 그리고 알렉스는 리즈를 떠나 아버지의 친구들과 한패가 되어 STBO의 백신을 훔칠 계획을 세운다. 이제 새로운 비극이 시작된다. 알렉스는 그곳에서 아버지의 친구 마르끄의 젊은 정부 안나를 만나 단번에 사랑에 빠지지만...

Short documentary on Belgian artist Piet Bekaert.

O is locked up and although his escape attempts keep failing he keeps persisting. In one way or another he'll manage to escape.