The best Valdemar Santos’s drama movies
Today we present the best Valdemar Santos’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Valdemar Santos’s movies.
3x3D
5.9/10
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
Mosquito
6.8/10
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.
A Ceia
5.3/10
The Keeper
5/10
Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works continuously since he has nowhere to live. Aurora passes by him every morning and end of the day. One day she is brave enough to talk to him.
Ubi Sunt
3.4/10
Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical) Hybrid and eclectic project, it is the outcome of a audiovisual research residency of humam and urban exploration of an expanding city. Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before us?". Reflective essay on mortality and life's transience, it emerges from that dialectic, of a and episodic and fragmented structure with a choreographed cinematography; where the memory intersects the contemporary.
Pena Fria
8.8/10
A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
Liberdade Condicional
Five low-life people find themselves trapped in a public toilet.
Caminhos Magnétykos
4.8/10
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Before the Mountains
6.9/10
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
Vencidos da Vida
4.2/10
A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.
Estrada de Palha
6/10
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.
Carga
6/10
In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal with the adversities of being left behind.
Ornament and Crime
5.9/10
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
Lovers on Borders
5.5/10
Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.
The Scoundrel
7.5/10
The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.
Arca D'Água
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.
