Elmano Sancho Movies

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin...

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Based on Don DeLillo's novella "The Body Artist," the film swirls around a self-centered filmmaker who, during a screening of one of his films,...

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose...

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de...

At a time when it is forbidden to get togother to bury our dead, a little girl separated by an ocean from her grandfather invents a way to say...

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

David envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only meet through the Polaroid pictures he takes of them.

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a...

An unexpected meeting on Twitter, introduces young actress Luísa to António, a writer and journalist, who hides his identity using...

Guilherme is a boy with 13 years old that plays tennis, he has to see and deal with his nightmares and his own fears.

Five lives cross each other in the labyrinth of the suburbs in search of their redemption.

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a...

A two parts making of documentary, following José Augusto Silva and his film crew during the shooting of a university short film called...

An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Teófilo de Braga.

Inspired by the work of Bertolt Brecht and filmed in Porto's former industrial slaughterhouse, A Santa Joana dos Matadouros is a meta-cinematic essay...

An entertaining TV movie that tells us how the transition from the Estado Novo to democracy took place on April 25. All this through the eyes of a...