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Tag Archives: Portugal
In the Shadow of the Vultures (1998) Leonel Vieira, Vítor Norte, Diogo Infante, José Eduardo
1962 in Tras-os-Montes, a miners’ strike begins to be repressed by the National Guard. Read More »
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier Read More »
Mudar de Vida, José Mario Branco, vida e obra (2014) Pedro Fidalgo, Nelson Guerreiro
A documentary about the life and work of musician, composer, poet, actor, activist, columnist, music producer, José Mário Branco Read More »
Game of Checkers (2015) Patrícia Sequeira, Ana Nave, Ana Padrão, Fátima Belo
Following Marta’s wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. Read More »
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums (1984) Fernando Lopes, Nuno Duarte, João Perry, Lia Gama
A gang decides to rob the Gulbenkian Museum, tired of their petty robberies. Read More »
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007) Paul Auster, David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. Read More »
Ruínas (2009) Manuel Mozos
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work Read More »
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 »