João Bénard da Costa
- Title: João Bénard da Costa
- Popularity: 1.134
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1935-02-07
- Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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- Also Known As: Duarte de Almeida
5.7 1988 HD
12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...
2 1981 HD
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
7.5 2015 HD
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...
5.3 2007 HD
Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...
1 1993 HD
Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...
7.232 1984 HD
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...
7.5 2000 HD
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...
5.6 1981 HD
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...
7.3 1986 HD
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...
6.4 2006 HD
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him...
4.9 2002 HD
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
5.7 2009 HD
A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...
6.7 2001 HD
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
6.5 1994 HD
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...
7 2000 HD
Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town...
5.3 1987 HD
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...
5.1 2000 HD
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to...
6.469 2007 HD
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...
7 1972 HD
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...
7.6 2001 HD
An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...
5.4 1995 HD
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...
1 2006 HD
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
7.5 1981 HD
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
1 1997 HD
Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of...
1 1998 HD
A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
6.875 1979 HD
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
6.7 1994 HD
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
5.8 1992 HD
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...
6.1 1990 HD
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...
1 2010 HD
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....
7.1 1993 HD
6.4 1982 HD
5.5 1988 HD
1 2004 HD
6.3 1978 HD
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Portuguese...