Francis Selleck

Filmes

Borboleta
Executive Producer
A group of friends find themselves in an island, or so they think, and deal with their dramas while mysterious things are at play
Ruth: A Pérola do Índico
Turista Francês
Um filme sobre a sociedade portuguesa metropolitana e ultramarina no início da década de 60, à boleia da história de um jovem futebolista moçambicano chamado Eusébio, atleta predestinado do Sporting Clube Lourenço Marques, que se vê cobiçado e contratado pelo clube rival, o Benfica. Chantagem, tentativas de rapto, envolvimento de ministros, delírio nos jornais e promessas milionárias fazem da história da transferência do futebolista - um miúdo que nunca ninguém vira jogar - uma saga desenrolada em dois continentes. Termina quando a lenda começa : com a estreia de Eusébio na Luz.
E o Tempo Passa
Teresa é uma actriz de telenovela. O reencontro de uma velha paixão traz-lhe memórias que ela própria julgava perdidas, levando-a a questionar não apenas a sua vida afectiva, mas também as suas opções profissionais. No estúdio onde decorrem as gravações, o labor quotidiano é pontuado pela agitação de um grupo de jovens actores. Afinal, todos perguntam: onde está a felicidade?
Crónica Parisiense
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...
The Dead Queen
D. Manuel
Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father.
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Le prêtre
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
Volpone
Le Prince
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
A Espada da Vingança
Domestique Nevers
França inicio do século 18. Órfão, criado pelos mestres de armas Cocardasse e Guarnição, o Jovem Lagardére, desafia para um duelo o Duque Nevers. Ele perde, mas seu atrevimento e segurança cativa o Duque que o chama a seus serviços. Nevers e Inès, se casam em segredo, pois Cayus, o pai da bela jovem. Prometeu sua mão ao príncipe de Gonzague, primo de Nevers. Furioso ao descobrir, Gonzague decide se livrar do rival e de sua filha Aurora, que Inès acaba de dar a luz. Acompanhado de mercenários, ele prepara uma armadilha para Nevers e o mata covardemente. Antes de morrer, Nevers confia seu segredo a Lagardère, que chega para socorrê-lo tarde demais. Lagardère jura vingar seu melhor a migo e cuidar da pequena Aurora. Após 16 anos, Gonzague, que ainda deseja se casar com Inès, a convence de que o assassino do marido e seqüestrador da filha é Lagardère e promete encontrar a menina. O duelo final de espadas de Lagardère e Gonzague, está cada vez mais próximo de acontecer.
Tomorrow Belongs to Us
On the eve of the summer vacations, Marc (16 years old) only dreams of one thing: seduce Sonia. Tonight, he has decided to confess his love for her. But while he performs a balancing act to impress her, he is taken by a dizzy spell and is victim of a fainting spell. He is rushed to the hospital and the doctors discover that he has leukemia. A race against time begins: the disease and Sonia's love become Marc's two challenges.
Il court, il court, le furet...
Rémy
Married for three years, Pierre and Marion are now divorcing. During umpteenth mediation with the judge, both explained how their love for each other faded away little by little.
Les frangines
Le notaire
After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver.
Sex Is Comedy
Production Manager
A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
The Garden of Redemption
German in church
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Solo de Violino
Théramène
Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.
Love Comedy
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.
Luísa e os Outros
The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
Kagemusha, a Sombra do Samurai
Priest
Shingen, um poderoso Senhor da Guerra, seriamente ferido, ordena ao clã que use algum sósia para o substituir caso faleça - para manter a sua morte em segredo, evitando assim o ataque dos seus inimigos. Mas este é um vulgar criminoso que tem de aprender a transformar-se num grande líder e comandar um exército de 25.000 leais guerreiros Samurai…