António Pinhão Botelho

Directing

António Pinhão Botelho

Born

1986-05-25 (40)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

Born in Lisbon, in 1986, António Pinhão Botelho is a Portuguese actor and director. Graduating from Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 2008. Pinhão Botelho released the short-film O Rio in 2014. By 2018 the director presented his first feature, Ruth, detailing an important moment in Eusébio da Silva Ferreira’s life – one of the most important portuguese soccer players. He was also assistant director of Le Cahier Noir (Valéria Sarmiento, 2018) and The Domain (Tiago Guedes, 2019).

Known for

Mysteries of Lisbon poster
7.2

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010

J. poster
NR

David keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.

J.

2026

Vile poster
NR

About a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.

Vile

2012

Hard Times poster
7.3

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Hard Times

1988

Traffic poster
5.7

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

Traffic

1998

Ruth poster
6.7

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

Ruth

2018

Film credits

Behind the camera

J. poster
NR

David keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.

J.

2026

J. poster
NR

David keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.

J.

2026

Vile poster
NR

About a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.

Vile

2012

Vile poster
NR

About a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.

Vile

2012

Vile poster
NR

About a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.

Vile

2012

Ruth poster
6.7

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

Ruth

2018

Like so.. poster
NR

Fábio falls in love when Aurora falls in front of him.

Like so..

2011

Like so.. poster
NR

Fábio falls in love when Aurora falls in front of him.

Like so..

2011

Like so.. poster
NR

Fábio falls in love when Aurora falls in front of him.

Like so..

2011

O Fascínio das Histórias poster
NR

A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has always had to tell stories about itself, about the power and enchantment of fiction.

O Fascínio das Histórias

2019

Madeleine poster
NR

Peter has a strict routine to keep his mind busy.

Madeleine

2009

Madeleine poster
NR

Peter has a strict routine to keep his mind busy.

Madeleine

2009

Madeleine poster
NR

Peter has a strict routine to keep his mind busy.

Madeleine

2009

Os Chapéus-de-chuva De Chocolate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Os Chapéus-de-chuva De Chocolate

2012

The River poster
NR

Joana and Samuel's relationship has a specif routine.

The River

2014

The River poster
NR

Joana and Samuel's relationship has a specif routine.

The River

2014

Minutes: To Spare poster
NR

Joe arrives early for his second date with a girl - on Valentine's Day. As he waits he wrestles inside with past relationships and the stress that is to fall in love with some one.

Minutes: To Spare

2010

Minutes: To Spare poster
NR

Joe arrives early for his second date with a girl - on Valentine's Day. As he waits he wrestles inside with past relationships and the stress that is to fall in love with some one.

Minutes: To Spare

2010

Blackpot poster
8.0

A reorganization within a crime syndicate.

Blackpot

2023