José Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and playwright.

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José Leitão de Barros
Leitão de Barros
Born	(1896-10-22)22 October 1896 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	29 June 1967(1967-06-29) (aged 70) Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation(s)	Film director, playwright

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Among his most famous films are Maria do Mar (1930), the second docufiction after Moana (1926) by Robert Flaherty, the first Portuguese sound film, A Severa (1931), Ala-Arriba! (1945), and a biopic about Portugal's national poet, Camões (1946).

He was born and died in Lisbon.

• Mal de Espanha (1918)
• O Homem dos Olhos Tortos (1918) (unfinished)
• Malmequer (1918)
• Sidónio Pais - Proclamação do Presidente da República (1918) (lost)
• Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores (1929) (the second part is lost)
• Festas da Curia (1927)
• Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica (1930)
• Maria do Mar (1930)
• A Severa (1931)
• As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1935)
• Bocage (1936)
• Las Tres Gracias (1936)
• Maria Papoila (1937)
• Legião Portuguesa (1937)
• Mocidade Portuguesa (1937)
• Varanda dos Rouxinóis (1939)
• A Pesca do Atum (1939)
• Ala-Arriba! (1942)
• A Póvoa de Varzim (1942)
• Inês de Castro (1944)
• Camões (1946)
• Vendaval Maravilhoso (1949)
• Comemorações Henriquinas (1960)
• A Ponte da Arrábida Sobre o Rio Douro (1961)
• Escolas de Portugal (1962)
• A Ponte Salazar Sobre o Rio Tejo (1966)^[1]

• Docufiction
• Ethnofiction
• Cinema of Portugal
• José de Matos-Cruz - Portuguese film historian