Jean-François Auger

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious attraction between Leonor and Michel prompts them to head for a private beach (their tryst, if there was one, occurs off-camera). Five years later, the foursome again meet for a garden party and once again they pair off after spending much time discussing gender differences, emotion, social insight and exchanging witty bon mots.

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

Adaptação da peça homónima de Prista Monteiro. A ação concentra-se nas escadinhas de um bairro pobre e conta a derradeira desventura de um velho cego a quem já roubaram a caixa de esmolas, o seu ganha-pão oficializado. A filha, para além dos trabalhos de casa, afadiga-se com roupas que passa a ferro para fora. O homem dela, um marginal desempregado, vive às custas da caixa do cego, que agora é roubada pela segunda vez.

Em um país sul-americano recém saído de um regime ditatorial, Paulina Escobar fica sabendo pelo rádio que seu esposo, o famoso advogado Gerardo Escobar, deverá chefiar as investigações das mortes ocorridas no antigo regime. Em seguida Gerardo chega em casa, acompanhado de um estranho que o socorreu na estrada. Pela voz ela identifica o desconhecido como Roberto Miranda, homem que a torturou e estuprou durante sua atuação na resistência ao regime. Paulina decide então "julgá-lo" ali mesmo apesar dos protestos do marido.

A história de Chico Frontaria, um dos últimos remanescentes da família de origem portuguesa que construiu fortuna e boa reputação no tráfico de mercadorias e no combate à pirataria nos portos do sul da China.

A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.

Richard Walker é um médico que vai com Sondra, sua mulher, a Paris para uma conferência. Porém, logo no primeiro dia de viagem ela é seqüestrada. Querendo entender a razão do acontecido, ele acaba indo parar no submundo parisiense em uma procura desesperada, sem pistas e sem ninguém para auxiliá-lo. Até que surge a linda Michelle, que resolve lhe ajudá-lo para tentar encontrar Sondra até que ambos se vêem envoltos em uma trama internacional.

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.

Uma jovem andarilha morre congelada no frio do inverno francês. Sua história e principalmente seus últimos dias são contados através das pessoas que cruzaram o seu caminho.

A crime ring is kidnapping women to sell them to the harems of rich Emirs, but the Vice squad put an end to it.

A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.

Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.