A comedy about a family that receives money from a Brazilian aunt. Read More »
Tag Archives: Portugal
According to Pereira AKA Sostiene Pereira (1995) Roberto Faenza, Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. Read More »
Night Train to Lisbon (2013) Bille August, Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston
This movie is about aging Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) of classical languages who Read More »
Hero on the Front AKA Soldado Milhões (2018) Gonçalo Galvão Teles, Jorge Paixão da Costa, João Arrais, Miguel Borges, Raimundo Cosme
A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle Read More »
Summertime Killer AKA Un verano para matar (1972) Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Karl Malden, Olivia Hussey, Christopher Mitchum
A six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Read More »
Nazaré (1952) Manuel Guimarães, Virgilio Teixeira, Helga Liné, Artur Semedo
The sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. Read More »
The Blood AKA O Sangue (1989) Pedro Costa, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. Read More »
And when I die, I won’t stay dead (2015) Billy Woodberry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Susanne Cockrell, Ossie Davis
A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »
Torre Bela (1975) Thomas Harlan, Jacques d’Arthuys, Maria Vitória, José Neves Paiva
The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal Read More »
State of the World AKA O Estado do Mundo (2007) Ayisha Abraham, Chantal Akerman, Shyam Bahadur, Jurandyr Ferreira, Sakda Kaewbuadee
O Estado do Mundo is a compilation of 6 different short movies Read More »
Down to Earth AKA Casa de Lava (1994) Pedro Costa, Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker Read More »
The Blue Eyes of Yonta AKA Udju Azul di Yonta (1992) Flora Gomes, Jorge Quintino Biague, Marcelo Cabral, Jacquelina Camara
A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents Read More »
The Rose King AKA Der Rosenkönig (1986) Werner Schroeter, Magdalena Montezuma, Mostefa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. Read More »
The Xango from Baker Street AKA O Xangô de Baker Street (2001) Miguel Faria Jr., Joaquim de Almeida, Anthony O’Donnell, Maria de Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city’s Municipal Theater Read More »