Luís Galvão Teles (Director)
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Works
A Vida É Bela.?!
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Release Date1982-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Priest
Vote Count6
A Rainha e a Bastarda
We are in 1320, in the newly formed country we call Portugal. Isabel, the Holy Queen, is the wife of Dinis, the king, and mother of Afonso, the heir, both involved in a civil war that affects everyone.
Release Date2022-02-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
Tales from the Mountain
Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that, at times, proves impossible to repress.
Release Date2023-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Just Retired 2
Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the beginning of the problems for the grandparents, because soon they will lose their children. They have only two days left to find them, before their parents join them.
Release Date2022-07-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count109
Painless
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
Release Date2012-10-10
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count178
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
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count28
The Night of the Sunflowers
Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.
Release Date2006-08-25
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count51
Love for Sale
In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Release Date2006-11-17
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count59
Fados
A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.
Release Date2007-12-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count17
Manas
Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.
Release Date2025-03-26
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count4
The Great Mystical Circus
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.
Release Date2018-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count38
The Immortals
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
Release Date2003-11-07
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count11
Women
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Release Date1997-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
DotCom
A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.
Release Date2007-04-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Tudo Isto é Fado
Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?
Release Date2004-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Black Diamonds
Diamantes Negros tells the long journey undertaken by two young boys from Mali who arrive in Spain after being persuaded to pursue their dream of escaping from poverty by becoming professional football players.
Release Date2013-11-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count12
Grey and Black
The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious and determined to avenge herself, she proposes to an Police Inspector, Lucas, to chase and to find David. However, David, on a visit to the island of Faial, falls in love with a local, Marina. Maria and Lucas look for David in the Azores, they cross with Mariana in Faial and the three will discover David in his house of the mountain, at the top of the Peak. In a final confrontation, as in a Greek tragedy, Mary and David adjust the accounts that fate has traced to them.
Release Date2015-10-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
A Noiva
A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..
Release Date2000-06-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
O Outro Lado do Arco-íris
Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the story of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the first day of rain and sun, Carica embarks on adventure.
Release Date2004-03-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Glamour
Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed.
Release Date2005-04-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Âncora
Anna and Helena, both mothers, struggle with two forced separations. Anna, a Ukrainian refugee, tries to survive in Lisbon with her daughter Kamilla. Helena, Portuguese, survives the death of her son. The two women become friends the day they meet at the Food Bank.
Release Date2024-12-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Ice
The lives of two women intersect.
Release Date2016-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Moço
Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.
Release Date2020-08-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Praça Paris
Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child and her brother Jonas is a dangerous bandit that is in prison. Increasingly frightened by the reports she hears, she feels threatened at the same time that Glória sees her as essential in her life.
Release Date2017-10-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count18
As Armas e o Povo
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.
Release Date2011-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Death on the Tagus
A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile," Peter Ustinov and Jane Birkin, who are interviewed by the author.
Release Date1979-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
My Voice
Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.
Release Date2002-06-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count8
The Remnants of You
Sara leaves New York, where she’s preparing for her first jazz concert, to return to her hometown in Huesca, Spain, after her father’s sudden death. Inheriting a farm and a flock of ecological sheep with her sister Elena, she struggles with grief and guilt. She immerses herself in farming, yet, despite her efforts, she feels lost in a life she didn’t choose. Will she stay to preserve her father’s legacy, or find the courage to follow her own path?
Release Date2025-05-16
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Retrato de Família
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
Release Date1991-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Another Man's Garden
Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there.
Release Date2007-04-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Cooperativa Agrícola da Torre-Bela
A documentary that describes the life and problems of one of Portugal's most celebrated agricultural cooperatives in the second year of the Carnation Revolution.
Release Date1975-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História
In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance, Lisbon is inhabited by a repressed and militarized population. Maria and António stand out in this city and surrender themselves to a submersive love. 1978
Release Date1978-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
O Último Voo do Flamingo
Tizangara, Mozambique. After the peace agreement. A mystery. UN soldiers exploding. An investigation is begun and Massimo is appointed to solve the mystery. Joaquim will have to translate, not only the words but the facts, in order for him to understand.
Release Date2010-09-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Sagrada Família
Release Date2023-04-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Liberdade para José Diogo
The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor driver, kills his boss, Columbano Líbano Monteiro, after being dismissed from his job, when he claimed his right to work. He is imprisoned in Beja, Alentejo, and he is freed until prossecution. The courts are reluctant to judge him, because of the social unrest and the political aid Diogo is receiving from trade unions and political parties. A crowd will disrupt the court, in Tomar, and conduct a popular judgement in the hall of the tribunal, deciding to free Diogo, and condemning the boss, posthumously, for dismissing his employee and attacking him. The case became a law case study since then.
Release Date1976-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Âncora
Anna and Helena, both mothers, struggle with two forced separations. Anna, a Ukrainian refugee, tries to survive in Lisbon with her daughter Kamilla. Helena, Portuguese, survives the death of her son. The two women become friends the day they meet at the Food Bank.
Release Date2023-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret
In a small coastal African village, Jaki lives, in a house full of cousins ruled with an iron fist by grandmother Agnette and haunted by the mysterious figure of Grandmother Catarina. The life of the neighbourhood revolves around the construction of a Mausoleum for a deceased President that threatens to demolish the local residents’ houses. “Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret” is an adaptation of Ondjaki's novel.
Release Date2020-02-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.
Release Date2016-08-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Procissão dos Bêbados
Release Date1975-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ermera Roses
A few months before WW2 a family is torn apart: Maria goes to Timor, her brothers to Portugal. After Japan invaded Timor and Maria is sent to a prisoner’s camp, her family fears the worst. A documentary about a silenced period in Portuguese history.
Release Date2017-11-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer