António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Birthday: 1939-03-10
Place of Birth: Leiria, Portugal
Biography: António-Pedro Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos (born 10 March 1939 in Leiria) was a Portuguese film director. He was a member of the Cinema Novo movement, which was heavily inspired by the Nouvelle Vague and Italian neorealism. Later his style derived to a more mainstream sensibility. Vasconcelos was famously a Benfica supporter.
Movies
The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her ...
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40 Years of Fantasporto
A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the voic...
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in th...
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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti...
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Impossible Love
Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco a...
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The Immortals
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with ...
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A Portuguese Film
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors....
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An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos....
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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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Parque Mayer
Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship...
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Call Girl
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the ...
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O Fascínio das Histórias
A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always ha...
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Jaime
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to g...
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Adeus, Até ao Meu Regresso
The Revolution also put an end to the colonial wars in Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Angola. Vasconc...
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