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Pedro Costa

Portuguese film director (born 1959)

3.30body-of-work score · ranked #332 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
March 3, 1959 · Lisbon
Nationality
Portugal
Work
film director, screenwriter, film editor, cinematographer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Pedro Costa
Joost Pauwels · CC0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Colossal YouthJuventude em Marcha

    2006 · Portugal / France / Switzerland · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2008 #2 · Film Comment year-end poll 2007 #10 · Criterion Collection spine #511

    1.083 citations
  2. 2
    Vitalina Varela

    2019 · Portugal · drama

    Locarno Golden Leopard winner 2019

    0.751 citation
  3. 3
    In Vanda's RoomNo Quarto da Vanda

    2000 · Portugal

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #243 · Criterion Collection spine #510

    0.542 citations
  4. 4
    Ossos

    1997 · Portugal · comedy, drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1998 #10 · Criterion Collection spine #509

    0.452 citations
  5. 5
    Horse MoneyCavalo Dinheiro

    2014 · Portugal · documentary, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2015 #15

    0.251 citation
  6. 6
    Change NothingNe change rien

    2009 · France / Portugal · documentary, musical

    Film Comment year-end poll 2010 #20

    0.231 citation

Complete filmography

All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.