João Bénard da Costa
Birthday: 1935-02-07
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Tall Stories
12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his au...
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Oxalá
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is r...
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João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor ...
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The 15th Stone
Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], intervie...
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Oliveira, l'architecte
Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 19...
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City of Pirates
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, trav...
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Love Torn in a Dream
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A grou...
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The Territory
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves m...
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The Satin Slipper
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo,...
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Magic Mirror
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfre...
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The Uncertainty Principle
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family....
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The Invisible Collection
A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the f...
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Porto of My Childhood
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown....
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New L...
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Cinemaamor
Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only fo...
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The Mountains of the Moon
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shi...
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Word and Utopia
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked ...
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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Past and Present
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for bett...
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Fragile as the World
An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the ...
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The Convent
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portug...
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Francisca
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love result...
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Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa
Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an inter...
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Vasco Santana: O Bom Português
A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cin...
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Doomed Love
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....
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Blind Man's Bluff
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the stree...
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No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a co...
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Aqui D'El Rei!
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry ...
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Sodankylä Forever
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arc...
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The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of t...
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