Isabel Abreu Movies

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an...

In the mid-1940s, in a Portugal mired in poverty and illiteracy, a group of boys work in the potteries of Alhandra, on the coast, collecting clay to...

The mountain burns in the August heat. A firefighter falls, swallowed by the ground. The broken body survives as it can. Outside, the night descends.

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he...

The story of a man. Maybe two. A father who leaves home taking nothing with him but the mailbox and a suitcase. He sits on a garden bench, on the...

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

Lisbon's traditional Saint Anthony's Weddings have hit rock bottom. At least, that's what Stardust, a major French multinational poised to take over...

After another night at work, Paulo can't park his car and drive home.

The mysteriously familiar face of a deceased young woman shakes young surgeon Fabian out of his lethargy. On a whim, he leaves Berlin for Portugal,...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the...

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses...

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet...

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his...

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized...