Alberto Seixas Santos

Directing

Alberto Seixas Santos

Born — Died

1936-03-20 — 2016-12-10

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Known for

História do Cinema Português poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

História do Cinema Português

2001

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter poster
7.3

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

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

1998

No artwork available
7.0

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 called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

Paraíso Perdido

1995

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

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 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

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976 poster
7.5

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

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976

1978

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
7.0

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 called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

Paraíso Perdido

1995

No artwork available
7.0

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 called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

Paraíso Perdido

1995

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

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976 poster
7.5

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

The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976

1978

E o Tempo Passa poster
4.5

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 all, they all ask the same question: where does happiness lies?

E o Tempo Passa

2011

E o Tempo Passa poster
4.5

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 all, they all ask the same question: where does happiness lies?

E o Tempo Passa

2011

The People's Struggle poster
NR

The film serves as a social document, focusing on a literacy campaign carried out within a Portuguese agricultural cooperative

The People's Struggle

1976

Gestures and Fragments poster
7.0

"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 one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Gestures and Fragments

1983

Gestures and Fragments poster
7.0

"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 one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Gestures and Fragments

1983

Gestures and Fragments poster
7.0

"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 one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Gestures and Fragments

1983

Brandos Costumes poster
6.3

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 echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.

Brandos Costumes

1975

Brandos Costumes poster
6.3

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 echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.

Brandos Costumes

1975

The Girl with the Dead Hand poster
8.3

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.

The Girl with the Dead Hand

2005

The Girl with the Dead Hand poster
8.3

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.

The Girl with the Dead Hand

2005

Bad poster
5.3

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, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.

Bad

2000

Bad poster
5.3

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, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.

Bad

2000

Lobos poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lobos

2007