Henrique Viana Movies

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules...

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island"....

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

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...

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of...

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military,...

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..

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after...

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.