Directing
António Pinhão Botelho
Born May 25, 1986 · Lisbon, Portugal (age 40)
Born in Lisbon, in 1986, António Pinhão Botelho is a Portuguese actor and director. Graduating from Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 2008. Pinhão Botelho released the short-film O Rio in 2014. By 2018 the director presented his first feature, Ruth, detailing an important moment in Eusébio da Silva Ferreira’s life – one of the most important portuguese soccer players. He was also assi…
Known For
Hard Times · 1988Hard Times
★ 7.31988
MovieDrama
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Maria Vitória · 2025Maria Vitória
★ 10.02025
MovieDrama
Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local boys youth team. Determined to become a professional, she devotes all her free time to intense training with her father. Their routine is shaken by the unexpected return of her older brother, who left many years earlier after a tragic fire that took their mother’s life. As she prepares for the most important match of her life, Maria begins to question her father’s authority and gradually seeks a way to break free and take control of her own future.
J. · 2026J.
2026
MovieRomanceDrama
David keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.
Vile · 2012Vile
2012
MovieFantasy
About a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.
The Domain · 2019The Domain
★ 7.02019
MovieDramaHistory
The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.
As Meninas Exemplares · 2025As Meninas Exemplares
2025
MovieDrama
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 some mysteries, form the perfect trilogy by the Countess of Ségur on education, social, religious, and political power. Desire and its oppression, violence and punishment, in short, the terrible loss combined with inevitable growth. Both adults and children will understand that precepts, rules, and prayers can tear nerves and blood apart.
Mysteries of Lisbon · 2010Mysteries of Lisbon
★ 6.92010
MovieDramaHistory
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
The Black Book · 2018The Black Book
★ 5.42018
MovieRomanceDrama
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.














