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Tag Archives: Portugal
Turbulence AKA Estorvo (2000) Ruy Guerra, Jorge Perugorría, Bianca Byington, Suzana Ribeiro
After a restless night HE is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Read More »
Lisbon (1956) Ray Milland, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Rains
High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. 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 Chronicles of Polyaris (2014) Christine Reeh, Dmitry Bogomolov
This film aims the poetic portray an abandoned town, called Pyramiden, surrounded by eternal ice Read More »
Ruínas (2009) Manuel Mozos
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work Read More »
Get a Life AKA Ganhar a vida (2001) João Canijo, Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz, Teresa Madruga
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between Read More »
A Shot in the Dark AKA Um Tiro no Escuro (2005) Leonel Vieira, Joaquim de Almeida, Vanessa Mesquita, Filipe Duarte
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon Read More »
The Great Eliah AKA O Grande Elias (1950) Arthur Duarte, António Silva, Milú, Francisco Ribeiro
A comedy about a family that receives money from a Brazilian aunt. Read More »
The Tyrannical Father AKA O Pai Tirano (1941) António Lopes Ribeiro, Vasco Santana, Francisco Ribeiro, Leonor Maia
Everything is on the way for the annual performance of the Grandella’s Store Theatre Group Read More »
True and Tender Is the North AKA A Corte do Norte (2008) João Botelho, Ana Moreira, Ricardo Aibéo, Rogério Samora
A young woman seeks to unearth the truth about a distant ancestor in director João Botelho’s adaptation Read More »
The Consul of Bordeaux AKA O Cônsul de Bordéus (2011) João Correa, Francisco Manso, Vítor Norte, Carlos Paulo, João Nunes Monteiro
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas Read More »
Swan AKA Cisne (2011) Teresa Villaverde, Beatriz Batarda, Miguel Nunes, Israel Pimenta
Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. Read More »
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis AKA O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (2020) João Botelho, Chico Díaz, Luís Lima Barreto, Catarina Wallenstein
Literary adaptation which imagines the last months, in 1936, of Fernando Pessoa Read More »
The Dance of the Paroxysms AKA A dança dos paroxismos (1929) Jorge Brum do Canto, Machado Correia, Maria Do Carmo
A surreal short film in which a young man embarks Read More »