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Tag Archives: Portugal
No Trace of Sin (1983) José Fonseca e Costa, Victoria Abril, Saul Santos
A young man coming from the high-bourgeois family, Henry, recives in the barrack where he’s getting the military service Read More »
The Dead Girl’s Feast (2008) Matheus Nachtergaele, Daniel de Oliveira, Juliano Cazarré, Jackson Antunes
For every one of the last 20 years, The Dead Girl’s Feast has been celebrated in a small riverside community in the upper part of the Negro River. Read More »
Portugal S.A. (2004) Ruy Guerra, Diogo Infante, Cristina Câmara, Henrique Viana
Jacinto Pereira Lopes is manager of a major economic and financial group, which the State returned to its former owner. Read More »
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »
Dot.com (2007) Luís Galvão Teles, João Tempera, María Adánez, Marco Delgado
A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation Read More »
The Estrela’s Lion (1947) Arthur Duarte, António Silva, Milú, Maria Eugénia
Anastacio, a football fan supporting the Sporting Club, meets the Baratas while on vacation with his family. Read More »
Colossal Youth (2006) Pedro Costa, Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon Read More »
The Fatalist (2005) João Botelho, Rogério Samora, André Gomes, Rita Blanco, Suzana Borges
Everything good or bad that happens to us “down here” is written “up there”. Read More »
Turbulence (2000) Ruy Guerra, Jorge Perugorría, Bianca Byington, Suzana Ribeiro
After a restless night HE is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Through the peephole he sees a STRANGER. Read More »
Rosa de Alfama (1953) Henrique Campos, Alberto Ribeiro, Mariana Villar, Alves da Cunha
Alberto Ribeiro and Mariana Villar star in a popular melodrama set in Alfama (neighborhood of Lisbon) Read More »
East Timor – Dream of the Crocodile (2002) Diana Andringa, Xanana Gusmão
Leader of the world’s newest country, Xanana Gusmao, really knows about fighting for freedom and democracy. Read More »
Time Regained (1999) Raoul Ruiz, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood Read More »
A Vizinha do Lado (1945) António Lopes Ribeiro, Silvestre Alegrim, Carlos Alves, Emilia D’Oliveira
The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »
Brave New Land (2000) Lúcia Murat, Diogo Infante, Floriano Peixoto, Luciana Rigueira
Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. Read More »