Alberto Seixas Santos
Also Known As: Grupo Zero
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: March 20, 1936
Deathday: December 10, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Overview: 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?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-29
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Overview: The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Christmas Inventory
Overview: A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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No Tempo do Cinema
Overview: A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-21
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Step by Step
Overview: Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-04-11
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Guardian Angel
Overview: Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter
Overview: Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-03-13
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