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Tag Archives: Portugal
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 »
Just a Normal Life AKA Uma Vida Normal (1994) Joaquim Leitão, Joaquim de Almeida, María Barranco, Anamar
Miguel is 40 years old and has his great share of the usual problems. Read More »
20.13: Purgatory AKA 20,13 (2006) Joaquim Leitão, Marco D’Almeida, Adriano Carvalho, Carla Chambel
Mozambique, 24th of December 1969, a Portuguese army patrol return Read More »
Kiss Me (2004) António da Cunha Telles, Marisa Cruz, Manuel Wiborg, Nicolau Breyner, Clara Pinto Correia
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives Read More »
1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs AKA Black Tights (1960) Terence Young, Cyd Charisse, Moira Shearer, Zizi Jeanmaire
Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit Read More »
48 (2010) Susana de Sousa Dias, Georgette Ferreira, Dias Lourenço, Sofia Ferreira
Filmmaker Susana Sousa Dias traces Portugal’s period of fascism from 1926 until 1974. Read More »
Jardim (2008) João Vladimiro
4 hectares of ground are the gardens that surround the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Read More »
The Curse of Marialva AKA “Sabbath” La maldición de María Alva (1989) António de Macedo, Lídia Franco, Carlos Daniel, Carlos Santos
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors Read More »
Cosmos (2015) Andrzej Zulawski, Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet
Witold just failed his law-school exams and Fuchs has just quit his job at a Parisian fashion company. Read More »
The Satin Slipper AKA Le soulier de satin (1985) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman Read More »