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O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It...
The Crime of Father Amaro
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Operation Autumn
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the...
Sombras Brancas
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and...
The Immortals
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the...
True and Tender is the North
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...
Love Torn in a Dream
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced...
Jaime
Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and...
Inferno
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...
O Capacete Dourado
A historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria...
Who Are You?
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de...
The Mystery of Sintra
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren...
O Delfim
He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."
98 Octanas
Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be...
A Passagem da Noite
Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an...
Natal 71
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Blind Man's Bluff
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
Sinais de Fogo
In 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip, the diseases and...
Diary of a New World
Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when,...
Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
Xavier
Mais Tarde
Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross...
Outside
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...
The Fifth Empire
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Tordesilhas - O Sonho do Rei
Short film.
A Fachada
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Arabian Nights
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his...
Matar Saudades
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...
The Fatalist
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his...
Party
Luís Medeiros, Azorean painter, meets two odd characters in an exhibit in Lisbon: Inês, a charming woman, and Ed, a sneaky man. The two...
Serenity
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...
The Satin Slipper
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...
April Captains
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...
A Falha
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...
The Jester
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Porto of My Childhood
Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child,...
Adam and Eve
Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay...
Alta Fidelidade
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of...
The Cannibals
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic...
Longe da Vista
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...
Rage
Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is...
Twist of Fate
Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife...
Um Passeio no Parque
Meia Noite
João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...
Lavado em Lágrimas
Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she...
Runaways
The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
Querida Mãe
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer...
Villa Mauresque
Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one...
Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a...
Bruno Aleixo's Film
THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who...
The Lovebirds
Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose...
Amadeo
A couple watches a bank robbery live on TV.
Directo
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas
Torquemada
A colonel working for Censorship, widower, learns that his wife read banned books in his absence, "New Portuguese Letters" and "My Lady of Me". The...
Lápis Azul
Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He...
A Luxury Crime
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...
Aqui D'El Rei!
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to...
Word and Utopia
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes...
Lourdes
Eternidade
Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?
Jaz Morto e Arrefece
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and...
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann...
The Gilded Cage
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...
Off Season
After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
Deux
A Última Viagem