Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director. While studying history at University of Lisbon, Costa switched to film courses at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) where he was a student of António Reis, Paulo Rocha and Alberto Seixas Santos. After working as an assistant director to several directors such as Jorge Silva Melo, Vítor Gonçalves and João Botelho, he made a first feature film O Sangue (The Blood) in 1989. He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing the film In Vanda's Room. Colossal Youth was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008. He is considered to be part of "The School of Reis" film family. António Reis, Portuguese director, was his teacher at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called Pedro Costa "the Samuel Beckett of cinema". He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way in documentary format: some are docufictions.

  • Title: Pedro Costa
  • Popularity: 2.971
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1958-12-30
  • Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Pedro Costa Movies

  • 2001
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    Dialogues clandestins 2001

    Dialogues clandestins 2001

    1 2001 HD

    Intertwined interviews of filmmaker Pedro Costa and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.

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  • 1970
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    Finding the Criminal

    Finding the Criminal

    1 1970 HD

    A conversation between Pedro Costa, Andy Rector and Craig Keller.

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  • 2006
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    All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director

    All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director

    8 2006 HD

    With this movie, Aurélien Gerbault invites us to know the portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and to witness the process of shooting of his movie...

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  • 2019
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    Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa

    Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa

    6 2019 HD

    “Sacavém” is a journey through Pedro Costa’s films and focused on his work on “Down to Earth”,...

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  • 2018
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    Wiara

    Wiara

    1 2018 HD

    Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.

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  • 2021
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    Uncertain Path

    Uncertain Path

    1 2021 HD

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links...

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  • 1989
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    Blood

    Blood

    6.8 1989 HD

    Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure...

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  • 2006
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    Colossal Youth

    Colossal Youth

    7.3 2006 HD

    After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde...

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  • 2006
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    Colossal Youth

    Colossal Youth

    7.3 2006 HD

    After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde...

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  • 2006
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    Colossal Youth

    Colossal Youth

    7.3 2006 HD

    After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde...

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  • 1997
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    Ossos

    Ossos

    6.8 1997 HD

    After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

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  • 2023
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    The Daughters of Fire

    The Daughters of Fire

    6 2023 HD

    The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of...

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  • 2009
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    Change Nothing

    Change Nothing

    7.5 2009 HD

    One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French...

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  • 2003
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    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    7.1 2003 HD

    Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

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  • 2001
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    In Vanda's Room

    In Vanda's Room

    6.7 2001 HD

    An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

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  • 1995
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    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    6.9 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    Memories

    Memories

    5.5 2007 HD

    Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the...

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  • 2010
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    Our Man

    Our Man

    6.1 2010 HD

    O Nosso Homem (Our Man) is a short variation in the line of the trilogy Pedro Costa has devoted to the habitants of the Fontainhas quarter, which...

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  • 2012
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    Historic Centre

    Historic Centre

    6.2 2012 HD

    Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

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  • 2007
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    Memories

    Memories

    5.5 2007 HD

    Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the...

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  • 2010
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    Our Man

    Our Man

    6.1 2010 HD

    O Nosso Homem (Our Man) is a short variation in the line of the trilogy Pedro Costa has devoted to the habitants of the Fontainhas quarter, which...

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  • 2007
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    The State of the World

    The State of the World

    5.2 2007 HD

    An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.

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  • 2012
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    Historic Centre

    Historic Centre

    6.2 2012 HD

    Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

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  • 2001
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    6 Bagatelas

    6 Bagatelas

    6.2 2001 HD

    Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...

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  • 1988
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    Agosto

    Agosto

    6.8 1988 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho

    Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho

    1 1994 HD

    On an isolated Portuguese island, a nameless man makes a mental journey which brings him into contact with the strange and menacing world without...

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  • 2014
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    Horse Money

    Horse Money

    7.2 2014 HD

    While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

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  • 2003
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    The End of a Love Affair

    The End of a Love Affair

    5.2 2003 HD

    A man is standing at the window, holding a chair. There are wafts of street noise, and occasionally the curtain flutters. A dog is barking. Then,...

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  • 2012
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    Sweet Exorcist

    Sweet Exorcist

    1 2012 HD

    A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a...

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  • 2007
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    The Rabbit Hunters

    The Rabbit Hunters

    6 2007 HD

    Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".

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  • 2012
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    Sweet Exorcist

    Sweet Exorcist

    1 2012 HD

    A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a...

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  • 2007
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    Tarrafal

    Tarrafal

    1 2007 HD

    Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".

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  • 2001
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    In Vanda's Room

    In Vanda's Room

    6.7 2001 HD

    An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

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  • 1986
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    A Girl in Summer

    A Girl in Summer

    4.7 1986 HD

    It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets...

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  • 2006
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    Minino macho, Minino fêmea

    Minino macho, Minino fêmea

    1 2006 HD

    Pedro Costa's 2006 installation Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female is made up of additional footage from In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth....

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  • 2014
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    Horse Money

    Horse Money

    7.2 2014 HD

    While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

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  • 2005
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    Change Nothing

    Change Nothing

    6 2005 HD

    A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title...

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  • 1993
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    Hovering Over the Water

    Hovering Over the Water

    7.1 1993 HD

    Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert...

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  • 1995
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    ¡Qué vienen los Beatles!

    ¡Qué vienen los Beatles!

    1 1995 HD

    In July 1965, the Beatles visited Spain to give only two concerts: one at the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas, in Madrid, on June 2, and the other, the...

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  • 1995
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    ¡Qué vienen los Beatles!

    ¡Qué vienen los Beatles!

    1 1995 HD

    In July 1965, the Beatles visited Spain to give only two concerts: one at the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas, in Madrid, on June 2, and the other, the...

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  • 2001
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    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    6 2001 HD

    The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'

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  • 1989
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    Blood

    Blood

    6.8 1989 HD

    Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure...

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  • 1997
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    Ossos

    Ossos

    6.8 1997 HD

    After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

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  • 2012
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    Historic Centre

    Historic Centre

    6.2 2012 HD

    Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

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  • 2019
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    Vitalina Varela

    Vitalina Varela

    6.8 2019 HD

    A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his...

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  • 1995
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    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    6.9 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    7.1 2003 HD

    Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

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  • 2016
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    How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras

    How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras

    5 2016 HD

    In Sarajevo, in a cinema’s projection booth, lives Sena; a woman who in daily solitude repeats the projection of the few Yugoslavian films of...

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  • 2023
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    The Daughters of Fire

    The Daughters of Fire

    6 2023 HD

    The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of...

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  • 2024
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    Fire of Wind

    Fire of Wind

    3 2024 HD

    The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak...

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  • 2001
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    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    6 2001 HD

    The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'

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  • 2019
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    Vitalina Varela

    Vitalina Varela

    6.8 2019 HD

    A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his...

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  • 2001
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    In Vanda's Room

    In Vanda's Room

    6.7 2001 HD

    An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

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  • 2003
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    The End of a Love Affair

    The End of a Love Affair

    5.2 2003 HD

    A man is standing at the window, holding a chair. There are wafts of street noise, and occasionally the curtain flutters. A dog is barking. Then,...

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  • 1984
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    É Tudo Invenção Nossa

    É Tudo Invenção Nossa

    1 1984 HD

    Pedro Costa first foray into filmmaking was a short-film co-produced for RTP within a series named “Cartas a Júlia.”

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  • 2009
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    Change Nothing

    Change Nothing

    7.5 2009 HD

    One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French...

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  • 1986
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    A Portuguese Farewell

    A Portuguese Farewell

    5.9 1986 HD

    In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

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