Marco Martins (born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese film director, best known for his 2005 film Alice, which premiered at Cannes and won the Best Picture Award at the Directors' Fortnight. In 1994 Marco Martins graduated from Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema), and soon afterwards undertook an apprenticeship with Wim Wenders, Manoel de Oliveira and Bertrand Tavernier. For two years following, he worked as assistant director to João Canijo, a fellow Portuguese director. During this period, his short films "Mergulho no Ano Novo" and 'No Caminho Para a Escola received critical acclaim, the former winning Best Short Film Award at the International Short Films Festival of Vila do Conde, and the latter taking Best Short Film and Best Director Awards at the VII Festival Ibérico de Cinema de Badajoz as well as the Eixo Atlântico Award at the Festival de Ourense He began shooting advertisements in the late 90's and in 2002 started his own production company, "Ministério dos Filmes", which has received multiple international awards. In 2005, his first feature film, Alice, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and received a number of international awards and made the long list for the Academy Awards Foreign Language Film prize. His 2006 short film was a contender at the "Corto Cortissimo" competition on the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, an international competition of 35mm short films. In 2009, he produced his second film, How to Draw a Perfect Circle, and in 2016 directed São Jorge. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Martins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Director and writer
- 3 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
Where can I watch Marco Martins' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 1 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, on Tubi (1).
Subscription and free streaming for Marco Martins' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
Olivia Foi Pra Lua (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Um Corpo que Dança - Ballet Gulbenkian 1965-2005 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Pink Men (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Nero Artista (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Aquela Mistura (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Sara (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Severo Severino (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Saint George(2016)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Túlio Piva - Pandeiro de Prata (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Twenty-One-Twelve The Day the World Didn't End (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Nenhum Nome (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Traces of a Diary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Insert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Ângelo, O Coveiro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Alice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Lisbon Story(1994)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all filmsMergulho no Ano Novo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
A Colónia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)