Zita Duarte

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariya Lipkina

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saúl Fonseca

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Soveral

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Luís

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pauline Cadell

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nicolau Breyner

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Cabral

With a strong documentary element, "Nós Por Cá Todos Bem" mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zita Duarte

The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mário Viegas

The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Mota

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanda Duarte

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: António Berengela

“A Princesinha das Rosas” is about Naíde, a girl born from the union between a fisherman and a mermaid, adopted by monarchs of a...

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Cast: Rui Baptista

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruy de Carvalho

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

Genre: Action

Cast: Florbela Queirós

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Viana

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amílcar Botica

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

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Cast: Artur Semedo

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Cabral Martins

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francis Frappat

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

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Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra