Luís Galvão Teles

Directing

Luís Galvão Teles

Born

1945-12-04 (80)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

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

Tudo Isto é Fado poster
5.1

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?

Tudo Isto é Fado

2004

Tudo Isto é Fado poster
5.1

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?

Tudo Isto é Fado

2004

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

—

Casegas 1 — A Procissão dos Bêbados poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Casegas 1 — A Procissão dos Bêbados

1975

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

Ice poster
4.2

The lives of two women intersect.

Ice

2016

Ice poster
4.2

The lives of two women intersect.

Ice

2016

Ice poster
4.2

The lives of two women intersect.

Ice

2016

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

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

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

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

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

Liberdade para José Diogo poster
7.5

The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor driver, kills his boss, Columbano Líbano Monteiro, after being dismissed from his job, when he claimed his right to work. He is imprisoned in Beja, Alentejo, and he is freed until prossecution. The courts are reluctant to judge him, because of the social unrest and the political aid Diogo is receiving from trade unions and political parties. A crowd will disrupt the court, in Tomar, and conduct a popular judgement in the hall of the tribunal, deciding to free Diogo, and condemning the boss, posthumously, for dismissing his employee and attacking him. The case became a law case study since then.

Liberdade para José Diogo

1976

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

My Voice poster
6.6

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.

My Voice

2002

A Rapariga dos Fósforos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Rapariga dos Fósforos

1978

A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História poster
6.2

In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance, Lisbon is inhabited by a repressed and militarized population. Maria and António stand out in this city and surrender themselves to a submersive love. 1978

A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

1978

A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História poster
6.2

In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance, Lisbon is inhabited by a repressed and militarized population. Maria and António stand out in this city and surrender themselves to a submersive love. 1978

A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

1978

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

1974

The Death of Carlos Gardel poster
6.5

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

The Death of Carlos Gardel

2011

Carnival Is Over poster
7.1

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

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

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

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

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

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

O Último Voo do Flamingo poster
NR

Tizangara, Mozambique. After the peace agreement. A mystery. UN soldiers exploding. An investigation is begun and Massimo is appointed to solve the mystery. Joaquim will have to translate, not only the words but the facts, in order for him to understand.

O Último Voo do Flamingo

2010

A Noiva poster
9.0

A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..

A Noiva

2000

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

Glamour poster
NR

Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed.

Glamour

2005

Glamour poster
NR

Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed.

Glamour

2005

Ermera Roses poster
NR

A few months before WW2 a family is torn apart: Maria goes to Timor, her brothers to Portugal. After Japan invaded Timor and Maria is sent to a prisoner’s camp, her family fears the worst. A documentary about a silenced period in Portuguese history.

Ermera Roses

2017

Fados poster
7.0

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

Fados

2007