Rui Morisson Movies

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

Flatmates and old friends Sofia and João share a bleak fascination with decadent, ritualistic behavior, until they welcome Rayan, a stranded...

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her,...

On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a...

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he...

A man has to sell the home he has spent such happy times in. His daughters have grown up and left. Reluctantly, he shows the house for some buyers: a...

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren...

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of...

Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick".

Maria de Noronha, at 13 years old, suffers from high fevers and violent hemoptysis caused by a ruthless tuberculosis. To alleviate the pain, she...

Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her...

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is...

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a...

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes.

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great...

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...

X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding...