Marcello Urgeghe Movies
- 2000
Two weeks before her wedding, Maria Joao (Beatriz Batarda) is spoiled, hung over, possibly pregnant, and unwilling to exchange her party girl ways for her impending marriage. So, with the objections of her father (Luis Miguel Cintra) and the encouragement of her idiosyncratic Uncle Nini (Francisco Rabal), she leaves her family's estate, on a mission to return a large boat and trailer to her fiancé, who lives in Spain. With the help of Gabriel (Marcello Urgeghe), her father's godson, she drives a large rig across the Iberian plains, visiting her estranged brother Ze Maria (Ricardo Aibeo) in Cordoba along the way and dallying in sexual hijinks to boot. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Beatriz Batarda, Marcello Urgeghe, (more)
- 1994
This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe, (more)
- 1990
King Alfonso VI of Portugal ruled from 1656-1667. Despite numerous physical and mental handicaps, he was able to bring about an end to his mother's regency, and to fend of a Spanish invasion. In this film, the king's wife has joined forces with those who would dethrone him. In a trial before the papal legate, his sexual deficiencies were exposed, and his marriage to his French queen was annulled and he was imprisoned. She went on to marry the man who was to become Alfonso's regent and later became the next king, Peter II. This elegant historical drama, filmed on location in palaces that were in use at the time, tells the story of his fall from power, and of the trial. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aurelle Doazan
- 1990
A number of colonial wars in Africa in the 1970s have resulted in the conscription of Alex's father Pedro into the Portuguese Army. The young man and his father write to one another frequently, and it seems as if they are still close. However, at some point, the letters stop coming. Alex and his mother are worried that Pedro might have been killed or captured, but that particular concern is soon replaced by another when they learn from a returning soldier that Pedro has been back in Portugal for several months. When he is persuaded to return to his home, it becomes clear that he might have been wiser to stay away. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vincent Gallo, Teresa Roby, (more)
- 1989
The young men in this Portuguese drama have one thing in common: they all have homosexual urges, and all have hidden or repressed them. When this was filmed in Portugal in the late 1980s this was shocking stuff. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Laura Morante
