João Pedro Bénard Movies

  • 2024
    Grand Tour

    Grand Tour

    Grand Tour

    6.72024HD

    In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on...

    Grand Tour
  • 2024
    Banzo

    Banzo

    Banzo

    5.52024HD

    1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the...

    Banzo
  • 2018
    Rage

    Rage

    Rage

    6.82018HD

    Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...

    Rage
  • 2005
    The Face You Deserve

    The Face You Deserve

    The Face You Deserve

    5.92005HD

    Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are...

    The Face You Deserve
  • 2015
    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

    7.0732015HD

    In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...

    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
  • 2019
    Patrick

    Patrick

    Patrick

    5.92019HD

    Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a...

    Patrick
  • 1984
    Manoel’s Destinies

    Manoel’s Destinies

    Manoel’s Destinies

    6.91984HD

    When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually...

    Manoel’s Destinies
  • 1989
    Recollections of the Yellow House

    Recollections of the Yellow House

    Recollections of the Yellow House

    8.21989HD

    Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

    Recollections of the Yellow House
  • 1981
    Oxalá

    Oxalá

    Oxalá

    4.51981HD

    A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

    Oxalá
  • 2012
    A Woman's Revenge

    A Woman's Revenge

    A Woman's Revenge

    6.22012HD

    Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...

    A Woman's Revenge
  • 1990
    Malvadez

    Malvadez

    Malvadez

    71990HD

    Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers

    Malvadez
  • 2024
    Os Terríveis

    Os Terríveis

    Os Terríveis

    02024HD

    Os Terríveis
  • 1990
    The Sound of the Shaking Earth

    The Sound of the Shaking Earth

    The Sound of the Shaking Earth

    6.61990HD

    Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

    The Sound of the Shaking Earth
  • 2018
    Ramiro

    Ramiro

    Ramiro

    5.82018HD

    Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and...

    Ramiro
  • 2022
    Worth Your Weight in Gold

    Worth Your Weight in Gold

    Worth Your Weight in Gold

    02022HD

    Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his...

    Worth Your Weight in Gold
  • 2003
    Dead Man's Memories

    Dead Man's Memories

    Dead Man's Memories

    4.42003HD

    A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path...

    Dead Man's Memories
  • 1991
    Alex

    Alex

    Alex

    6.51991HD

    The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

    Alex
  • 2017
    Coup de Grâce

    Coup de Grâce

    Coup de Grâce

    02017HD

    A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to...

    Coup de Grâce
  • 1990
    Step by Step

    Step by Step

    Step by Step

    61990HD

    Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

    Step by Step
  • 2015
    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

    8.52015HD

    "In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film...

    I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You