Alberto Seixas Santos

Christmas Inventory (2000)

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miguel Gomes
CAST:  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  Marta Morais Tavares  •  Manuel Mozos  •  João Nicolau

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miguel Gomes
CAST:  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  Marta Morais Tavares  •  Manuel Mozos  •  João Nicolau

Step by Step (1990)

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Mozos
CAST:  Canto e Castro  •  Pedro Hestnes  •  Sandra Garcia  •  Paulo Oom

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Mozos
CAST:  Canto e Castro  •  Pedro Hestnes  •  Sandra Garcia  •  Paulo Oom

Gestures and Fragments (1983)

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho  •  Robert Kramer  •  Eduardo Lourenço  •  Joaquim Furtado

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho  •  Robert Kramer  •  Eduardo Lourenço  •  Joaquim Furtado

Brandos Costumes (1975)

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Luís Santos  •  Dalila Rocha  •  Isabel de Castro  •  Sofia de Carvalho

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Luís Santos  •  Dalila Rocha  •  Isabel de Castro  •  Sofia de Carvalho

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo (2016)

Feature documentary about ex-maverick filmmaker António de Macedo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  João Monteiro
CAST:  António de Macedo  •  António-Pedro Vasconcelos  •  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  José Fonseca e Costa

Feature documentary about ex-maverick filmmaker António de Macedo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  João Monteiro
CAST:  António de Macedo  •  António-Pedro Vasconcelos  •  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  José Fonseca e Costa

E o Tempo Passa (2011)

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger actors. After ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Sofia Aparício  •  Isabel Ruth  •  Christian Cloarec  •  Américo Silva

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger actors. After ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Sofia Aparício  •  Isabel Ruth  •  Christian Cloarec  •  Américo Silva

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista (1994)

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Mozos
CAST:  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  António da Cunha Telles  •  António Escudeiro  •  Daniel Del Negro

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Mozos
CAST:  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  António da Cunha Telles  •  António Escudeiro  •  Daniel Del Negro

Paraíso Perdido (1995)

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Maria de Medeiros  •  Rui Mendes  •  Manuela de Freitas  •  Carlos Daniel

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Maria de Medeiros  •  Rui Mendes  •  Manuela de Freitas  •  Carlos Daniel

O Anjo da Guarda (1998)

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margarida Gil
CAST:  Canto e Castro  •  Dalila Carmo  •  Cucha Carvalheiro  •  Zita Duarte

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margarida Gil
CAST:  Canto e Castro  •  Dalila Carmo  •  Cucha Carvalheiro  •  Zita Duarte

Bad (2000)

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Pauline Cadell  •  Alexandre Pinto  •  Lia Gama  •  Zita Duarte

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Pauline Cadell  •  Alexandre Pinto  •  Lia Gama  •  Zita Duarte

The Girl with the Dead Hand (2005)

Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Rita Martins  •  Madalena Victorino  •  Bia Gomes  •  Maria Inês Soares

Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Seixas Santos
CAST:  Rita Martins  •  Madalena Victorino  •  Bia Gomes  •  Maria Inês Soares

No Tempo do Cinema (2006)

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  José Carlos Santos
CAST:  João Bénard da Costa  •  Manoel de Oliveira  •  Fernando Lopes  •  Rita Azevedo Gomes

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  José Carlos Santos
CAST:  João Bénard da Costa  •  Manoel de Oliveira  •  Fernando Lopes  •  Rita Azevedo Gomes

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976 (1977)

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Solveig Nordlund  •  Alberto Seixas Santos
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The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Solveig Nordlund  •  Alberto Seixas Santos
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As Armas e o Povo (1975)

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 Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fernando Lopes  •  Henrique Espírito Santo  •  António-Pedro Vasconcelos  •  Luís Galvão Teles  •  João César Monteiro  •  José Fonseca e Costa  •  Artur Semedo  •  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  Glauber Rocha  •  António de Macedo  •  Ricardo Costa  •  António da Cunha Telles  •  José de Sá Caetano  •  Fernando Matos Silva  •  Eduardo Geada  •  Acácio de Almeida  •  António Escudeiro  •  João Matos Silva  •  Manuel Costa e Silva  •  Moedas Miguel  •  Elso Roque
CAST:  Glauber Rocha  •  Adelino Gomes  •  Fernando Balsinha  •  Júlio Isidro

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 Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fernando Lopes  •  Henrique Espírito Santo  •  António-Pedro Vasconcelos  •  Luís Galvão Teles  •  João César Monteiro  •  José Fonseca e Costa  •  Artur Semedo  •  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  Glauber Rocha  •  António de Macedo  •  Ricardo Costa  •  António da Cunha Telles  •  José de Sá Caetano  •  Fernando Matos Silva  •  Eduardo Geada  •  Acácio de Almeida  •  António Escudeiro  •  João Matos Silva  •  Manuel Costa e Silva  •  Moedas Miguel  •  Elso Roque
CAST:  Glauber Rocha  •  Adelino Gomes  •  Fernando Balsinha  •  Júlio Isidro

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter (1998)

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luís Matos
CAST:  Rita Blanco  •  Diogo Dória  •  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  Paulo Silveira

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luís Matos
CAST:  Rita Blanco  •  Diogo Dória  •  Alberto Seixas Santos  •  Paulo Silveira