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Tag Archives: Portugal
A Woman’s Revenge (2012) Rita Azevedo Gomes, Rita Durão, Fernando Rodrigues, Hugo Tourita
Roberto is a dandy! An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. Read More »
Forget Everything I’ve Told You (2002) António Ferreira, Custódia Gallego, António Capelo, Amélia Corôa, Fernando Taborda
Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician. Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy. Read More »
Few of Us (1996) Sharunas Bartas, Yekaterina Golubeva, Piotr Kishteev, Sergei Tulayev
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman’s journey in Siberia. Read More »
Ana (1982) Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis, Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras
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 »
Ala-Arriba! (1942) José Leitão de Barros, Ilidio Rocha Silvestre, Elsa Bea-Flor, João Moço
In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Read More »
Eldorado XXI (2016) Salomé Lamas
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 »
Goodbye, Father (1996) Luís Filipe Rocha, Afonso Pimentel, João Lagarto, Laura Soveral
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 »
Docs Kingdom (1988) Robert Kramer, Paul McIsaac, Vincent Gallo, Ruy Furtado
Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. Read More »
The Mutants (1998) Teresa Villaverde, Ana Moreira, Alexandre Pinto, Nelson Varela
A bleak drama about street children abandoned by the Portuguese juvenile system, Os Mutantes/The Mutants was immediately controversial in Portugal Read More »
Trial (2007) Leonel Vieira, Júlio César, José Eduardo, Alexandra Lencastre
In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime’s secret police. Read More »
Ballad of Dog Beach (1987) José Fonseca e Costa, Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog Beach. Read More »
98 Octane (2006) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Carla Chambel, Márcia Breia, Fernando Heitor
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 »
Reconversion (2012) Thom Andersen
Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »
The Baron (2011) Edgar Pêra, Marina Albuquerque, Marcos Barbosa, Vítor Correia
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »