António de Macedo

Directing

António de Macedo

Born — Died

1932-07-05 — 2017-10-05

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

António de Macedo (5 July 1931 − 5 October 2017) was Portuguese filmmaker, writer, university professor and lecturer. He gave up filmmaking in the 1990s as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the only financial source for film production in Portugal in that time. As a consequence, he dedicated himself entirely to writing, investigation and teaching. He published several books, essays, philosophy and fiction.

Known for

História do Cinema Português poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

História do Cinema Português

2001

The Curse of Marialva poster
4.7

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

The Curse of Marialva

1991

The Emissaries of Khalom poster
7.0

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.

The Emissaries of Khalom

1988

Nojo aos Cães poster
8.0

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the group spends their time talking about love, religion, sex and the war. The meeting degenerates into a drunken orgy before the police mercifully break up the group and stops the film from continuing. The film was banned in Portugal. - Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Nojo aos Cães

1970

Chá Forte com Limão poster
8.0

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting - the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.

Chá Forte com Limão

1993

O Princípio da Sabedoria poster
7.0

In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner.

O Princípio da Sabedoria

1976

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Curse of Marialva poster
4.7

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

The Curse of Marialva

1991

The Curse of Marialva poster
4.7

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

The Curse of Marialva

1991

The Emissaries of Khalom poster
7.0

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.

The Emissaries of Khalom

1988

The Emissaries of Khalom poster
7.0

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.

The Emissaries of Khalom

1988

Nojo aos Cães poster
8.0

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the group spends their time talking about love, religion, sex and the war. The meeting degenerates into a drunken orgy before the police mercifully break up the group and stops the film from continuing. The film was banned in Portugal. - Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Nojo aos Cães

1970

Nojo aos Cães poster
8.0

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the group spends their time talking about love, religion, sex and the war. The meeting degenerates into a drunken orgy before the police mercifully break up the group and stops the film from continuing. The film was banned in Portugal. - Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Nojo aos Cães

1970

Nojo aos Cães poster
8.0

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the group spends their time talking about love, religion, sex and the war. The meeting degenerates into a drunken orgy before the police mercifully break up the group and stops the film from continuing. The film was banned in Portugal. - Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Nojo aos Cães

1970

Chá Forte com Limão poster
8.0

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting - the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.

Chá Forte com Limão

1993

Chá Forte com Limão poster
8.0

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting - the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.

Chá Forte com Limão

1993

O Princípio da Sabedoria poster
7.0

In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner.

O Princípio da Sabedoria

1976

O Princípio da Sabedoria poster
7.0

In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner.

O Princípio da Sabedoria

1976

No artwork available
10.0

Images illustrate a poetic text in three parts - Morning, Afternoon, and Evening - with variations on work and leisure, heat and coolness, and love and sex.

Verão Coincidente

1963

O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores poster
NR

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.

O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores

1977

Albufeira poster
NR

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a film promoting tourism in the Algarve city (such as Lisbon, Jardim da Europa), showing, however, the authorial and experimental brand of António Macedo, a of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, always inclined to escape the canons of production.

Albufeira

1968

Ocupação de Terras na Beira Baixa poster
8.0

The film follows the process of occupation of Quinta da Vargem, in Unhais da Serra, by salaried workers, a process that would lead to the nationalization of the Quinta. Ocupação de Terras na Beira Baixa (Land Occupation in Beira Baixa) is part of a series of films produced by the Cinequanon film cooperative in Unhais da Serra during the period of the Agrarian Reform.

Ocupação de Terras na Beira Baixa

1975

O Segredo das Pedras Vivas poster
NR

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.

O Segredo das Pedras Vivas

2016

O Segredo das Pedras Vivas poster
NR

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.

O Segredo das Pedras Vivas

2016

No artwork available
9.0

Documentary dedicated to the plastic artist Fernando Lanhas

Fernando Lanhas - Os 7 Rostos

1988

No artwork available
NR

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

The Encounter

1980

No artwork available
NR

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

The Encounter

1980

No artwork available
NR

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

The Encounter

1980

A Bicha de 7 Cabeças poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Bicha de 7 Cabeças

1978

A Bicha de 7 Cabeças poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Bicha de 7 Cabeças

1978

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

Alta Velocidade poster
NR

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Ferguson, and subsidiary industries for car parts.

Alta Velocidade

1967

Alta Velocidade poster
NR

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Ferguson, and subsidiary industries for car parts.

Alta Velocidade

1967

No artwork available
9.0

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his former poetic and philosophical works.

Almada Negreiros Vivo, Hoje

1969

No artwork available
9.0

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his former poetic and philosophical works.

Almada Negreiros Vivo, Hoje

1969

Seven Bullets for Selma poster
10.0

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

Seven Bullets for Selma

1967

Seven Bullets for Selma poster
10.0

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

Seven Bullets for Selma

1967

The Magic Springs Of Gerenia poster
8.5

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.

The Magic Springs Of Gerenia

1984

The Magic Springs Of Gerenia poster
8.5

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.

The Magic Springs Of Gerenia

1984

The Donkey-Eared Prince poster
7.0

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.

The Donkey-Eared Prince

1980

The Donkey-Eared Prince poster
7.0

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.

The Donkey-Eared Prince

1980

No artwork available
NR

Production by Francisco de Castro - it is an industrial film depicting the development of the oil industry in Portugal, focusing on the Sacor refinery in Leça da Palmeira.

5 Temas para Refinaria & Quarteto

1971

Sunday Afternoon poster
7.7

Reflections on life and death unfold through the eyes of Jorge, the head doctor of the Haematology Department, whose world is plunged into despair when he falls in love with Clarisse, a woman suffering from advanced leukemia.

Sunday Afternoon

1966

Sunday Afternoon poster
7.7

Reflections on life and death unfold through the eyes of Jorge, the head doctor of the Haematology Department, whose world is plunged into despair when he falls in love with Clarisse, a woman suffering from advanced leukemia.

Sunday Afternoon

1966

Nicotiana poster
7.0

The tobacco industry in Portugal through time and the full process, from plantation of seeds to its vanishing in smoke.

Nicotiana

1964

No artwork available
NR

Workers occupy the Candidinha haute couture workshop.

Candidinha

1975

Maria's Hours poster
5.8

Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of Fátima. Turned over by Angela, her aunt, into the care of Dr. Firmino, an imposing doctor, she will suffer moments of despair, grace, and fear, among beliefs, phantoms, and revelations.

Maria's Hours

1979