João Braz Movies

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta...

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care...

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these...

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according...

Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean....

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...

A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place...

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to...

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He...

A documentary about the singings of a Portuguese Village that has their own dialect

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

A choreographic poem by Maurice Ravel.

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years...

A view of rising dependence to credits in the shadow of a overgrowing economical crisis in a consumers society.