Movies: Arthur Duarte

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously pr...

While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques....

Geninha and Fortunato are couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them....

Jimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato and the attractive Tamara have to do with Marchese de la Sotta and his henchmen....

A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate. Upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married....

When Mr. Elias discovers that his aunt, who lives in Brazil, comes to visit him, he decides to temporarily occupy the house of a wealthy neighbor who's away so that she doesn't discover that he's not as rich as he told her....

Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich....

a silent war movie by Heinz Paul...

André (Curado Ribeiro), is a son of a wealthy family who meets a girl called Luisinha (Milu). Luisinha lives at a small pension house with Rita (Maria Olguim) and Januário (João Silva), who are as parents to her, and with mr. Simplício Costa (António...

Melancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both wo...

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In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream w...

Nair marries Renato for love, and is unhappy because her husband all the money with his lover, Arlete. Sónia, Nair's friend, is a woman who lives happy with a man out of wedlock. Sónia's example Nair to accept the advances of Jorge, a lawyer who live...

Daisy Baroness Eggloffsburg, a ball of energy, is a spoiled and rather lively, cheerful wild child who is always in the mood for pranks. Her uncle Egon, a stern old gentleman, thinks she has had enough of her foolishness and boozy ideas and needs a m...

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, he will find true love, and also learn to value his country and its colonial grandeur....

A love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca....

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The Duke of Gomara plays at high stakes in the casino, trying to impress his companion Estela. He loses all, and would have commited suicide, if it was not for Maria Eugénia, a beautiful girl who is there with her father - a banker. Out of jealousy, ...

Luísa has been married to Jorge for three years. He is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo when she finds out about the arrival of his cousin Basilio after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune....