José de Matos-Cruz (born 9 February 1947) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist.
He writes fiction and poetry books, some worth mentioning: Tempo Possível (Possible Times), in 1967, Cafre (Kaffir), 1970, Alma de Cadáver (Soul of a Corpse), 1985, A Erosão dos Lábios (Lips Erosion), 1992, Hexálogo (Hexalog), 2000, Os EntreTantos (Meantimes), 2003, and O Infante Portugal (The Prince Heir of Portugal ), 2007.
He also writes books on cinema, such as monographs on Charles Chaplin (1981), Manoel de Oliveira (1996), António de Macedo (2000), Artur Ramos (2003), António Lopes Ribeiro and Francisco Ribeiro (2008).
He created a film database called Cinema Português (2002–09), published by the Instituto Camões, a department of the Portuguese Foreign Office.
José de Matos-Cruz – Memórias Afectivas e Outras Histórias (José de Matos-Cruz, affective memories and other stories) is a DVD film by Delfim Ramos, which portrays him as a living and creative testimony.