Tag Archives: Portugal

It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke’s poets with a local narrative. Read More »

A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Read More »

Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. Read More »

In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Read More »

A mercenary sits in a chair on a sober setting in an abandoned palace in Lisbon, as if beginning to pose for a cinematic portrait. Read More »

This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life. Read More »

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. Read More »

Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. Read More »

A bleak drama about street children abandoned by the Portuguese juvenile system, Os Mutantes/The Mutants was immediately controversial in Portugal Read More »

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime’s secret police. Read More »

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog Beach. Read More »

He doesn’t know her, she doesn’t know him, but somewhere on the highway between Lisbon and Porto, he stops to rest and there she is: as lost as he is. Read More »

Former boxing champion Belarmino answers a psychological facing the camera in close-up. Read More »

Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »

A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »