Best Portuguese Silent Films - Instituto Camões
This is a list composed by silent films, commissioned by Instituto Camões. Instituto Camões (English: Camões Institute) is an institution created in 1992 for the promotion of the Portuguese language and culture world-wide. Instituto Camões has administrative and patrimonial autonomy, that, under the supervision of the Portuguese Minister of the Foreign Affairs, assures the co-ordination and execution of the external cultural policies of Portugal. The list was organized by José de Matos-Cruz, a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. Since 1980 he works at the Cinemateca Portuguesa (Portuguese Film Archive), in Lisbon. He is a prominent historian of the Portuguese cinema.
Guiomar Teixeira and Nascimento, Detective Por Amor are missing from IMDB.
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- DirectorJoão Freire CorreiaLino FerreiraStarsCarlos LealLuz VelosoNascimento FernandesDiogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
- DirectorJoão TavaresStarsAlfredo de SousaAmélia SoaresGertrudes LimaBetween 1836 and 1839, Diogo Alves, committed a series of crimes and murders, most of them taking place in the Aqueduto of Águas Livres, before being caught by the authorities and being hanged.
- DirectorEmídio Ribeiro PratasStarsAníbal AguiarAníbal ContreirasFernando DomingosPratas is Chaplin's replica in Lisbon. Always making trouble, ends up with a red eye and running from the police.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsDuarte SilvaMaria das NevesAntónio ValeTo shorten the way, Bonifácio Mendes a small-minded muleteer decides to cross the Mafra cover.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRaquel BarrosAlda de AguiarRaul de OliveiraA gang of criminals is persecuted by two detectives who are discovering secret connections of the band with hidden organizations and German spying in World War I.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsJoaquim CostaSofía SantosBeatriz VianaA Portuguese bourgeois dares to look at a Spanish lady's delicate ankles at the beach, but his wife will have nothing of it. Later, it's him that forbids his daughter from seeing a young man she had met at the same beach.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAlda de AguiarRobles MonteiroJosé Cottinelli TelmoDuring a reception at a noble house, during the XVIII century, an ancient courtesan takes the petals of a marigold off, one-by-one, and remembers his encounter - and separation - of the woman he loved.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaría CamposMaria de OliveiraRafael MarquesDominated by his wife, counselor Faustino Soares gets his revenge by having affairs with maids.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaria de OliveiraCarlos SantosErico BragaTells of the forbidden love between Rosa, a beautiful minhota, and Fernando, a voluble young man who studied medicine in Porto, spending holidays in the village.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaría CamposJosé CardosoMaria de OliveiraBetween the elegant areas of Cascais and Lisbon, dangerous delinquent Barbanegra acts under the identity of the insinuating Marquis de Serpa.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsErico BragaAurora CelesteSalvador CostaThe amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsPato MonizAntónio PinheiroBrunilde JúdiceSimão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.
- DirectorRino LupoGeorge PalluStarsBrunilde JúdiceAntónio PinheiroMário SantosAna doesn't care for the pure love André devotes her, and turns her heart towards a noble man that is just lightly interested in her. Ana will experience the agony of being abandoned, and must contemplate the reclusion of a nun's life.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsPalmira BastosMaria Emília Castelo BrancoMaria ClementinaTraveling by car to Sintra, a mysterious lady, arriving in Lisbon by ship, is the victim of an accident.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaurice MariaudA. Castro NevesCastro NevesIn a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsAmélia Rey ColaçoRaul de CarvalhoAntónio DuarteLuísa, three years ago, Jorge's wife, who is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo, is aware of the arrival of his cousin Basilio, after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsFrancine MusseyErico BragaEmilia D'OliveiraModern version of the Cinderella story.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsEduardo BrazãoSarah CunhaEmilia D'OliveiraLife and loves of Severa, a popular Fado-singer.
- DirectorRino LupoStarsJoaquim AlmadaFrancisco AmoresJoaquim AvelarAfter serving a sentence for crime of passion, a seafarer arrives at Serra da Cabreira, becoming an element of fascination and disaggregation of the archaic village.
- DirectorRoger LionStarsGil ClaryMax MaxudianEmilia D'OliveiraIn a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaria de OliveiraMaria HelenaArthur DuarteThe distinctive loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct morals of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana.
- DirectorManuel Luís VieiraStarsArnaldo CoimbraErmelinda VieiraGeorge A. GordonThe naturalist Mr. Garton is staying in a hotel in Funchal, spending part of the winter with his daughter.
- DirectorReinaldo FerreiraStarsMaria Emília Castelo BrancoAlves da CostaAlexandre AmoresThe story of this film is based on actual facts, the murder of actress Maria Alves, and the investigation that ensued, covered by Reinaldo Ferreira himself. Ferreira also wrote a novel based on the same facts.
- DirectorRino LupoStarsRafael AlvesCarlos AzevedoBeatriz CostaAninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the multitude that goes on a pilgrimage to the village where, ten years before, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three child sheepherders.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de Barros
- DirectorAntónio LeitãoStarsAntonio FagimIda KrugerTomás de SousaA mechanical problem forces a Portuguese Navy Pilot to land on the Atlantic Ocean off the islets of Berlengas. Julião, an experienced sea-wolf, and his crew of fishermen, Pedro, Lacrau and Serrote, fish the pilot, and bring him safely ashore. The pilot is rescued at the manor house of the largest isle, where a beautiful girl lives alone. Rosa's humanitarian interest in helping the young man soon converts in a romantic fancy. When he returns to Lisbon, in the continent, she goes with him - and is engulfed in the lively customs of the city, with dress-up balls, dancing, night-clubs and ladies of the night, gambling, and drinking. The opposite of her earlier secluded life... The pilot seems less and less attracted to Rosa, dancing away in the arms of Lisette, and designing a daring project to cross the Atlantic in an airplane alone with a foolish Brazilean Pilot. The two pilots do attempt the ocean crossing, but they fail, and after a rescue attempt by the Navy, they are declared as lost in the sea. Rosa returns to Berlengas, and tries to get back to the simple love that Pedro professed for her once. Only, he does not want her, after she has been away with another man. Rosa attempts suicide by drowning, but Pedro manages to save her, and accept her.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAdelina AbranchesChaby PinheiroAlves da CunhaCaleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port town - Lisbon, from the old district around Saint George's Castle down to the docks and the 'Sagres' on the Tagus river, to the new commercial districts.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRosa MaríaOliveira MartinsAdelina AbranchesFalacha is the captain of a fishing boat of Nazaré who lost part of his men in a shipwreck. Among them was the husband of Aunt Aurélia, who holds Falacha responsible for this tragedy. A few years later, Maria, Falacha's daughter, falls in love with Manuel, Aurélia's son, which makes the two young people the new Romeo and Juliet. As for Falacha, he succumbs to social pressure and commits suicide...
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraA documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
- DirectorAntónio Luis LopesStarsAntonio De SevesGil FerreiraMaria HelenaThe picturesque and adventurous life of the people of the hermitage, illustrating the novel between the majoral of a homestead and the boss's daughter.