Movies: Pedro Hestnes

  • 2000
    April Captains

    April Captains (2000)

    April Captains

    6.42000HD

    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....

    April Captains
  • 1995
    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava (1995)

    Casa de Lava

    6.91995HD

    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama....

    Casa de Lava
  • 1989
    Blood

    Blood (1989)

    Blood

    6.81989HD

    Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is est...

    Blood
  • 2006
    Body Rice

    Body Rice (2006)

    Body Rice

    52006HD

    Since 1980 German institutions send teens to the south of Portugal under experimental projects of social rehabilitation. That's how Katrin comes to Alentejo. She will establish a unique relationship with the surrounding environment, a situation exace...

    Body Rice
  • 2013
    Second Hand

    Second Hand (2013)

    Second Hand

    102013HD

    Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy....

    Second Hand
  • 2000
    Love Torn in a Dream

    Love Torn in a Dream (2000)

    Love Torn in a Dream

    7.52000HD

    A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the...

    Love Torn in a Dream
  • 1987
    The Mountains of the Moon

    The Mountains of the Moon (1987)

    The Mountains of the Moon

    5.31987HD

    This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manue...

    The Mountains of the Moon
  • 1988
    Agosto

    Agosto (1988)

    Agosto

    6.81988HD

    Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time....

    Agosto
  • 1998
    Doctor Chance

    Doctor Chance (1998)

    Doctor Chance

    5.51998HD

    Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Ch...

    Doctor Chance
  • 1991
    Os Cornos de Cronos

    Os Cornos de Cronos (1991)

    Os Cornos de Cronos

    01991HD

    A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl....

    Os Cornos de Cronos
  • 1991
    Xavier

    Xavier (1991)

    Xavier

    6.41991HD

    Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him....

    Xavier
  • 1988
    Tall Stories

    Tall Stories (1988)

    Tall Stories

    5.71988HD

    12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a friendship begins between him and other inn's regular holiday-makers, like maid Luisa or fisherman João. Bu...

    Tall Stories
  • 1996
    Pandora

    Pandora (1996)

    Pandora

    51996HD

    It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a...

    Pandora
  • 1988
    Three Less Me

    Three Less Me (1988)

    Three Less Me

    01988HD

    A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the ...

    Three Less Me
  • 1993
    Here on Earth

    Here on Earth (1993)

    Here on Earth

    5.31993HD

    Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother h...

    Here on Earth
  • 2004
    A Casa Esquecida

    A Casa Esquecida (2004)

    A Casa Esquecida

    02004HD

    Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they make a stop, renting their arms, the necessary time to be able to, provisions made, get on the road again. Once, with the sun at its peak an...

    A Casa Esquecida
  • 1998
    Guardian Angel

    Guardian Angel (1998)

    Guardian Angel

    01998HD

    Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mo...

    Guardian Angel
  • 1990
    Malvadez

    Malvadez (1990)

    Malvadez

    6.31990HD

    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
  • 1994
    Three Palm Trees

    Three Palm Trees (1994)

    Three Palm Trees

    5.51994HD

    Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child....

    Three Palm Trees
  • 1988
    Hard Times

    Hard Times (1988)

    Hard Times

    6.21988HD

    A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s....

    Hard Times