João Nunes (Writing)

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 Date:2020-02-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

O Cônsul de Bordéus

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.

Release Date:2012-05-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5

A Teia de Gelo

The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee. In flight, turns out to have an accident during a snowstorm and, despite being in despair, eventually finding a home.

Release Date:2012-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Conexão

The border between the North of Portugal and Galicia is the biggest drug entry point in Europe. History not only reflects the reality of clans but also engages in social implications.

Release Date:2011-03-19

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Assault on the Santa Maria

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.

Release Date:2010-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

O Dez

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

Release Date:2010-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Anestesia

Release Date:2010-02-28

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Conexão

Release Date:2009-10-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Trial

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.

Release Date:2007-10-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

A Shot in the Dark

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...

Release Date:2005-03-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

The Forest

Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.

Release Date:2002-11-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:10

O Espírito da Lei

Release Date:2001-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Amor Perdido

A story about two people (Clara and Tó), from different economic backgrounds, who love each other, but whose love is not accepted by everyone, especially by the father of Clara, who will do everything he can to stop their love. Things go even worse when Clara becomes pregnant.

Release Date:2000-12-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Mustang

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

Release Date:2000-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2