Artur Semedo
Birthday: 1924-11-02
Place of Birth: Arronches, Portugal
Biography: Before becoming a director, screenwriter, and producer, Artur Semedo enjoyed success as an actor on stage, television, and in feature films from 1949 through 1965. Semedo spent the years 1962 through 1965 working in Brazil.
Movies
The State of Things
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman...
View Movie
The Circus
Tony, a trapeze artist, gets a job at a small circus. When a tempest takes away the tent, Tony stays...
View Movie
Nazaré
The sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. The film tells the...
View Movie
Vidas sem Rumo
Meia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doe...
View Movie
O Dinheiro dos Pobres
Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, ...
View Movie
Chaimite
From the military planning to front-line operations of discover conquest of Mozambique by the Portug...
View Movie
Sofia and Sexual Education
After her mother's death, Sofia returns from a Swiss college to her family's luxurious villa, in Cas...
View Movie
Impossível Evasão
Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it i...
View Movie
Pôr do Sol no Areeiro
Set in the early 1970s, Pôr do Sol no Areeiro has an excellent storyline, perfectly capturing the mi...
View Movie
Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they ...
View Movie
The Assignment
A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate bet...
View Movie
A Moura Encantada
A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “encha...
View Movie
O Cerro dos Enforcados
15th century. D. Afonso, an old jealous nobleman, demands that all stay away when his wife, D. Leono...
View Movie
O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlenga...
View Movie
The Misadventures of Dracula Von Barreto in the Lands of the Agrarian Reform
To the tune of "A terra a quem a trabalha", an Alentejo peasant girl is attacked by a vampire but re...
View Movie
The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural worke...
View Movie
The Territory
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves m...
View Movie
A Estrangeira
The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but...
View Movie
A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História
In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones...
View Movie
Two Causes
Adriana, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, becomes pregnant after being seduced by...
View Movie
No Dia dos Meus Anos
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the sec...
View Movie
O Barão de Altamira
A nobleman from Alentejo, from a very conservative family, intends to reconquer Olivenza, returning ...
View Movie
Bárbara
Joe Valente, a luso-american, returns home with the dream of turning molice picking into a real indu...
View Movie
O Funeral do Patrão
Once the boss started deducting a third of the workers' wages on the pretext that it was necessary t...
View Movie
A Luxury Crime
Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive busines...
View Movie
Aqui D'El Rei!
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry ...
View Movie
Madrugada
A young agricultural conductor, Pedro goes to Alentejo to work in a farm, in March 1974. The contact...
View Movie
The Dear Lilás
Beladona was the greatest star, or so she thought. Careless of her rural property, she lived by nigh...
View Movie
Malteses, Burgueses e às Vezes...
Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the p...
View Movie
A Maluquinha de Arroios
Current adaptation. Farce about the tribulations of two families, their respective maids, and also a...
View Movie
Crônica da Cidade Amada
Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the ...
View Movie
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Re...
View Movie
Sun and Bulls
Manuel da Cruz, a young apprentice in the saddle, is discovered by the cattleman João Gama, who marv...
View Movie