Elso Roque Movies

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

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

In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance,...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother,...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy...

The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an...

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed...

Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes...

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and...

A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way.