Fatu’s father has returned home to Guinea-Bissau from Portugal to attend her wedding. Read More »
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Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul / Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss (1989) Paulo Rocha, Fernando Heitor, Inês de Medeiros, Vítor Norte, Biography
In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does a surprising “collage” about the Portuguese modernism, centered in Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Read More »
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Comedy, Drama, Musical
In 1927, Don Lockwood has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown to become a top movie star. Read More »
O Homem Que Copiava / The Man Who Copied (2003) Jorge Furtado, Lázaro Ramos, Renata de Lélis, Sérgio Lulkin, Comedy, Crime, Drama
André, relatively poor, falls in love with Silvia, a neighbor whom he spies with a telescope. Read More »
The Evil That Men Do (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Action, Drama, Thriller
Clement Moloch (Joseph Maher (R.I.P.))is a doctor (dubbed “the doctor”), but instead of using his skills to heal; he uses them to torture. Read More »
The Bellboy (1960) Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Comedy
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. Read More »
The Dead Mother / La madre muerta (1993) Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Karra Elejalde, Ana Álvarez, Lio, Art-house, Drama, Thriller
Ismael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Read More »
Duplo Exilio / Double Exile (2001) Artur Ribeiro, John Gardner, Joana Seixas, Diana Costa e Silva, Drama
David Santo was born in Portugal, in the Atlantic islands of the Azores, and was five months old at the time his parents immigrated to the US. Read More »
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987) Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
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Fado, História d’uma Cantadeira / Fado, Story of a Singer (1947) Perdigão Queiroga, Amália Rodrigues, Virgilio Teixeira, Vasco Santana, Drama, Musical, Romance
Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a ‘retiro’ (typical fado tavern), public andcritics rend major applause. Read More »
O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra / The Sintra Road Case (2007) Jorge Paixão da Costa, Ivo Canelas, António Pedro Cerdeira, Bruna Di Tullio, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily “Diário de Notícias”. Read More »
A Vizinha do Lado / The Next Door Neighbor (1945) António Lopes Ribeiro, Silvestre Alegrim, Carlos Alves, Emilia D’Oliveira, Comedy
The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher.
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Manhã Submersa / Morning Undersea (1980) Lauro António, Eunice Muñoz, Vergílio Ferreira, Canto e Castro, Drama
Estefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him.
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Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites / Five Days, Five Nights (1996) José Fonseca e Costa, Paulo Pires, Sinde Filipe, Vítor Norte, Drama
Portugal by the end of the 40’s. André escapes from jail and has to leave the country. In Oporto, some of his friends find him a guide, a drunken quarrelsome smuggler named Lambaça, who knows Trás-os-Montes border well.
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None But the Brave (1965) Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Drama, War
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations.
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