Joaquim Leitão (Director)

Little is known about Joaquim Leitão, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Quarta Divisão

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?

Release Date2013-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Pedopsiquiatra

Vote Count6

Outside

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.

Release Date2004-04-01

Charactersd Joaquim

Vote Count4

O Delfim

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.

Release Date2002-03-13

Charactersd Ex-combatente

Vote Count8

A Girl in Summer

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.

Release Date1986-12-11

Charactersd Quim

Vote Count4

Jaime

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.

Release Date1999-03-14

Charactersd Abel

Vote Count28

Night Train to Lisbon

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

Release Date2013-03-07

Charactersd Principal

Vote Count426

Call Girl

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...

Release Date2007-12-27

Charactersd Andrade

Vote Count23

April Captains

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

Release Date2000-04-21

Charactersd Filipe

Vote Count63

Nothing Ever Happened

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.

Release Date2022-09-29

Charactersd Arnaldo

Vote Count4

Sinais de Fogo

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

Release Date1995-11-03

Charactersd Party Officer

Vote Count1

Uma Vida Normal

Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.

Release Date1994-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd (uncredited)

Vote Count2

The Black Book

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.

Release Date2018-10-03

Charactersd Pozzebonelli

Vote Count22

O Capacete Dourado

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.

Release Date2007-09-19

Charactersd Almeida

Vote Count5

Portugal S.A.

The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.

Release Date2004-01-16

Charactersd homeless

Vote Count1

Um S Marginal

In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers will be installed. With the ecological balance seriously threatened, domestic animals disappear from the cities and return to wildlife in upland areas. On hearing of his sister's death in a road disaster, Jorge tries to warn his father - who, meanwhile, leaves for a secretly kept house, as a refuge and resting place.

Release Date1983-08-04

Charactersd Jorge, o Filho do Político

Cats Don't Have Vertigo

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.

Release Date2014-09-25

Charactersd Sem Abrigo

Vote Count21

The Jester

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

Release Date1987-10-31

Charactersd Camilo

Vote Count10

98 Octanas

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

Release Date2006-03-14

Charactersd Padre

Vote Count7

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.

Release Date2009-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Tentação

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the "black sheep" of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.

Release Date1997-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Release Date2020-06-03

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

To the Bitter End

Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.

Release Date1991-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Até Amanhã, Camaradas

Release Date2005-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.

Release Date2017-11-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

Fados

A series that brings together ten television films that sketch out as many portraits of our daily lives, fictional stories that touch on various aspects of Portuguese life, experiences marked by destiny.

Release Date1989-04-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Until Tomorrow, Comrades

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.

Release Date2013-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Duma Vez Por Todas

Lisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance.

Release Date1987-05-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Meia Noite

A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstition, and is devastated when it comes true. She learns that someone in the city foresaw the same fate, and against his wishes, she returns to confront him, only to become the subject of another terrifying prophecy he issues about her own future.

Release Date1988-01-01

História do Cinema Português

Release Date2001-02-23

Episode Count2

Dead Man's Seat

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.

Release Date1984-10-25

Vote Count11

Before Tomorrow

Release Date2007-04-25

On the Edge of the Horizon

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

Release Date1993-11-24

Vote Count9

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

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.

Release Date1994-12-31

Vote Count2