The best João Bénard da Costa’s history movies

João Bénard da Costa

João Bénard da Costa

07/02/1935- 21/05/2009
We present our ranking of the best João Bénard da Costa’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about João Bénard da Costa.

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

No, or the Vain Glory of Command
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 12/10/1990
  • Character: Baron of Alvito (as Duarte de Almeida)
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.

Aqui D'El Rei!

Aqui D'El Rei!
6.1/10
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the great regulative Governor Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty

Word and Utopia

Word and Utopia
6.5/10
  • Genre: History
  • Release: 17/11/2000
  • Character: Pope Clemente X
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

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