José Fonseca e Costa

Directing

José Fonseca e Costa

Born — Died

1933-06-27 — 2015-11-01

Place of birth

Caála, Angola

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

José Fonseca e Costa was a Portuguese film director. He was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo. Born in Angola, Costa worked as an assistant to Michelangelo Antonioni before becoming one of the leaders of Portugal's 'Young Cinema' in the 1960s.

Known for

História do Cinema Português poster
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No synopsis available yet.

História do Cinema Português

2001

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir poster
6.2

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir

1976

Ballad of Dog Beach poster
6.4

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Ballad of Dog Beach

1987

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo poster
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He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo

2016

The Circular Triangle poster
8.0

Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession.

The Circular Triangle

1964

Armpits poster
5.0

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry. But Lazarus has other hidden interests, the most important of which is an obsessive fixation on female armpits. When he sees the violinist Maria Pia playing, Lazarus immediately falls in love and starts to live for her, which will precipitate an absolutely unpredictable ending.

Armpits

2016

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir poster
6.2

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir

1976

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir poster
6.2

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir

1976

Ballad of Dog Beach poster
6.4

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Ballad of Dog Beach

1987

Ballad of Dog Beach poster
6.4

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Ballad of Dog Beach

1987

Armpits poster
5.0

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry. But Lazarus has other hidden interests, the most important of which is an obsessive fixation on female armpits. When he sees the violinist Maria Pia playing, Lazarus immediately falls in love and starts to live for her, which will precipitate an absolutely unpredictable ending.

Armpits

2016

Armpits poster
5.0

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry. But Lazarus has other hidden interests, the most important of which is an obsessive fixation on female armpits. When he sees the violinist Maria Pia playing, Lazarus immediately falls in love and starts to live for her, which will precipitate an absolutely unpredictable ending.

Armpits

2016

The Guns and the People poster
7.3

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 "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known.

The Guns and the People

1977

Five Days, Five Nights poster
5.9

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.

Five Days, Five Nights

1996

Five Days, Five Nights poster
5.9

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.

Five Days, Five Nights

1996

What The Tourist Should See poster
8.0

Homage to Fernando Pessoa and the city that lies next to the Tagus River.

What The Tourist Should See

2009

The Killers poster
5.7

"Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.

The Killers

1980

The Killers poster
5.7

"Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.

The Killers

1980

Your Neighbour's Wife poster
5.2

Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.

Your Neighbour's Wife

1988

Your Neighbour's Wife poster
5.2

Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.

Your Neighbour's Wife

1988

No artwork available
8.0

A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl.

Os Cornos de Cronos

1991

No Trace of Sin poster
6.8

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.

No Trace of Sin

1983

No Trace of Sin poster
6.8

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.

No Trace of Sin

1983

A metafísica dos chocolates poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A metafísica dos chocolates

1967

A metafísica dos chocolates poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A metafísica dos chocolates

1967

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch poster
6.8

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, a fact that leaves her heir to an incalculable fortune and coveted by all the aristocrats in the region.

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch

2006

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch poster
6.8

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, a fact that leaves her heir to an incalculable fortune and coveted by all the aristocrats in the region.

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch

2006

Las piernas de la serpiente poster
10.0

An advertising agent wants to organize a cycling race and finds it difficult to finance it through the contributions of commercial houses. To his great surprise, a capitalist offers to give money, without knowing why; the answer comes from his wife...

Las piernas de la serpiente

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

...e Era o Mar

1966

The Fascination poster
5.2

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.

The Fascination

2003

The Fascination poster
5.2

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.

The Fascination

2003

O Recado poster
9.0

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal.

O Recado

1972

O Recado poster
9.0

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal.

O Recado

1972