
Pedro Costa
Known for DirectingBorn 1958-12-30 (age 67)Lisbon, Portugal
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.Read more
Movies & web series
Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
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Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
1994 · Movie
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All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director
2006 · Movie
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Agosto
1988 · Movie
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Hovering Over the Water
2013 · Movie
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Change Nothing
2009 · Movie
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Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
2003 · Movie
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Horse Money
2014 · Movie
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Colossal Youth
2006 · Movie
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Sweet Exorcist
2012 · Movie
9'8m/s²
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9'8m/s²
1998 · Movie
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Casa de Lava
1995 · Movie
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Blood
1989 · Movie
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É Tudo Invenção Nossa
1984 · Movie
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Vitalina Varela
2019 · Movie
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Ossos
1997 · Movie
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In Vanda's Room
2001 · Movie
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The 13 Roses
2007 · Movie
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6 Bagatelas
2001 · Movie
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The Daughters of Fire
2023 · Movie
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Historic Centre
2012 · Movie
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Our Man
2010 · Movie
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Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa
2019 · Movie
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A Portuguese Farewell
1986 · Movie
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The Rabbit Hunters
2007 · Movie
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A Girl in Summer
1986 · Movie
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Change Nothing
2005 · Movie
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
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Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
2001 · Movie
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Memories
2007 · Movie
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The End of a Love Affair
2003 · Movie
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The State of the World
2007 · Movie
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How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras
2016 · Movie

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Repetition in re-creation
2026 · Movie

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Fire of Wind
2025 · Movie

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Where do you come from, Silence
2025 · Movie

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Uncertain Path
2021 · Movie

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Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2021 · Movie

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Wiara
2018 · Movie

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Alto Cutelo
2012 · Movie

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Tarrafal
2007 · Movie

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Minino macho, Minino fêmea
2006 · Movie
Dialogues clandestins 2001
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Dialogues clandestins 2001
2001 · Movie

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História do Cinema Português
2001 · Series
Finding the Criminal
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Finding the Criminal
Movie