Luís Galvão Teles

Directing

Luís Galvão Teles

Born 1945-12-04 · Lisbon, Portugal

Born on December 4, 1945, Luís Galvão Teles studied Law in Lisbon (1967) and Cinema in Paris (1968/70). Throughout his 50-year career in cinema, Luís Galvão Teles has held various positions as director, screenwriter, producer and distributor. He was an active participant in various film movements in Portugal before and after the revolution of April 25, 1974. That same year, he became one of the founding partners of CINEQUANON, a film cooperative that played a key role during the revolution. In 1997, he founded FADO FILMES, one of the most important Portuguese film production companies.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Praça Paris poster
6.8

Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child and her brother Jonas is a dangerous bandit that is in prison. Increasingly frightened by the reports she hears, she feels threatened at the same time that Glória sees her as essential in her life.

Praça Paris

2017

O Outro Lado do Arco-íris poster
6.5

Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the story of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the first day of rain and sun, Carica embarks on adventure.

O Outro Lado do Arco-íris

2004

Moço poster
7.0

Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.

Moço

2020

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor poster
6.5

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

2016

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor poster
6.5

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

2016

No artwork available
NR

Fiction feature film about the Douro, its people, stories and suffering. The relations between the lords of the land and those who work it.

Vindima

Retrato de Família poster
9.0

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.

Retrato de Família

1991

Retrato de Família poster
9.0

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.

Retrato de Família

1991

Death on the Tagus poster
8.0

A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile," Peter Ustinov and Jane Birkin, who are interviewed by the author.

Death on the Tagus

1979

Life Is Beautiful poster
7.3

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.

Life Is Beautiful

1982

Life Is Beautiful poster
7.3

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.

Life Is Beautiful

1982

A Rapariga dos Fósforos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Rapariga dos Fósforos

1978

No artwork available
5.5

Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there.

Another Man's Garden

2007

Orange Honey poster
5.0

Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of things he has to act. Soon he will be involved in risky actions that endanger their lives and those of their peers.

Orange Honey

2012

Grey and Black poster
6.1

The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious and determined to avenge herself, she proposes to an Police Inspector, Lucas, to chase and to find David. However, David, on a visit to the island of Faial, falls in love with a local, Marina. Maria and Lucas look for David in the Azores, they cross with Mariana in Faial and the three will discover David in his house of the mountain, at the top of the Peak. In a final confrontation, as in a Greek tragedy, Mary and David adjust the accounts that fate has traced to them.

Grey and Black

2015

Carnival Is Over poster
7.3

Regina and Valerio are a happy couple seeking a way out of their criminal family business, but their efforts only push them deeper into the pit they hoped to escape.

Carnival Is Over

2025

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Procissão dos Bêbados

1975

Fados poster
7.0

A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.

Fados

2007

Dot.com poster
5.5

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.

Dot.com

2007

Dot.com poster
5.5

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.

Dot.com

2007

Women poster
5.2

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Women

1997

Women poster
5.2

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Women

1997

Jaime poster
7.1

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.

Jaime

1999

Black Diamonds poster
6.6

Diamantes Negros tells the long journey undertaken by two young boys from Mali who arrive in Spain after being persuaded to pursue their dream of escaping from poverty by becoming professional football players.

Black Diamonds

2013