Jorge Silva Melo Movies

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

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

José de Guimarães's artistic life changed when he went to Africa in 1967 on military service. A revisit to his past.

When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an...

The painter Sofia Areal is a singular case in the portuguese arts. Her paintings are expansive, open, solar, vital and affirmative. The documentary...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

Documentary about the painter Ângelo de Sousa

A documentary about Gravura, the Portuguese cooperative founded in Lisbon in 1956.

Documentary about the work of the painter Nikias Skapinakis from the exhibition “Imaginary Bedrooms” which in June 2006 opened at the...

“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is...

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive...

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a...

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do...