Best Portuguese Silent Films - Instituto Camões
This is a list composed by silent films, commissioned by Instituto Camões. Instituto Camões (English: Camões Institute) is an institution created in 1992 for the promotion of the Portuguese language and culture world-wide. Instituto Camões has administrative and patrimonial autonomy, that, under the supervision of the Portuguese Minister of the Foreign Affairs, assures the co-ordination and execution of the external cultural policies of Portugal. The list was organized by José de Matos-Cruz, a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. Since 1980 he works at the Cinemateca Portuguesa (Portuguese Film Archive), in Lisbon. He is a prominent historian of the Portuguese cinema.
Guiomar Teixeira and Nascimento, Detective Por Amor are missing from IMDB.
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- DirectorsJoão Freire CorreiaLino FerreiraStarsCarlos LealLuz VelosoNascimento FernandesDiogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
- DirectorJoão TavaresStarsAlfredo de SousaAmélia SoaresGertrudes LimaBetween 1836 and 1839, Diogo Alves, committed a series of crimes and murders, most of them taking place in the Aqueduto of Águas Livres, before being caught by the authorities and being hanged.
- DirectorEmídio Ribeiro PratasStarsAníbal AguiarAníbal ContreirasFernando DomingosPratas is Chaplin's replica in Lisbon. Always making trouble, ends up with a red eye and running from the police.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRaquel BarrosAlda de AguiarRaul de OliveiraA gang of criminals is persecuted by two detectives who are discovering secret connections of the band with hidden organizations and German spying in World War I.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsJoaquim CostaSofía SantosBeatriz VianaA Portuguese bourgeois dares to look at a Spanish lady's delicate ankles at the beach, but his wife will have nothing of it. Later, it's him that forbids his daughter from seeing a young man she had met at the same beach.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAlda de AguiarRobles MonteiroJosé Cottinelli TelmoDuring a reception at a noble house, during the XVIII century, an ancient courtesan takes the petals of a marigold off, one-by-one, and remembers his encounter - and separation - of the woman he loved.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaria de OliveiraCarlos SantosErico BragaTells of the forbidden love between Rosa, a beautiful minhota, and Fernando, a voluble young man who studied medicine in Porto, spending holidays in the village.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsErico BragaAurora CelesteSalvador CostaThe amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsPato MonizAntónio PinheiroBrunilde JúdiceSimão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.
- DirectorsRino LupoGeorge PalluStarsBrunilde JúdiceAntónio PinheiroMário SantosAna doesn't care for the pure love André devotes her, and turns her heart towards a noble man that is just lightly interested in her. Ana will experience the agony of being abandoned, and must contemplate the reclusion of a nun's life.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaurice MariaudA. Castro NevesCastro NevesIn a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsAmélia Rey ColaçoRaul de CarvalhoAntónio DuarteLuísa, three years ago, Jorge's wife, who is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo, is aware of the arrival of his cousin Basilio, after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsFrancine MusseyErico BragaEmilia D'OliveiraModern version of the Cinderella story.
- DirectorRino LupoStarsJoaquim AlmadaFrancisco AmoresJoaquim AvelarAfter serving a sentence for crime of passion, a seafarer arrives at Serra da Cabreira, becoming an element of fascination and disaggregation of the archaic village.
