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No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier Read More »
Mudar de Vida, José Mario Branco, vida e obra (2014) Pedro Fidalgo, Nelson Guerreiro
A documentary about the life and work of musician, composer, poet, actor, activist, columnist, music producer, José Mário Branco Read More »
Game of Checkers (2015) Patrícia Sequeira, Ana Nave, Ana Padrão, Fátima Belo
Following Marta’s wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. Read More »
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009) Anna Muylaert, Glória Pires, Paulo Miklos, Alessandra Colassanti
In São Paulo, the lonely forty and something year-old guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment Read More »
Brainstorm (2000) Laís Bodanzky, Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager Read More »
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums (1984) Fernando Lopes, Nuno Duarte, João Perry, Lia Gama
A gang decides to rob the Gulbenkian Museum, tired of their petty robberies. Read More »
No Trace of Sin (1983) José Fonseca e Costa, Victoria Abril, Saul Santos
A young man coming from the high-bourgeois family, Henry, recives in the barrack where he’s getting the military service Read More »
The Woman of Everyone (1969) Rogério Sganzerla, Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents Read More »
The Dead Girl’s Feast (2008) Matheus Nachtergaele, Daniel de Oliveira, Juliano Cazarré, Jackson Antunes
For every one of the last 20 years, The Dead Girl’s Feast has been celebrated in a small riverside community in the upper part of the Negro River. Read More »
Portugal S.A. (2004) Ruy Guerra, Diogo Infante, Cristina Câmara, Henrique Viana
Jacinto Pereira Lopes is manager of a major economic and financial group, which the State returned to its former owner. Read More »
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »
The Estrela’s Lion (1947) Arthur Duarte, António Silva, Milú, Maria Eugénia
Anastacio, a football fan supporting the Sporting Club, meets the Baratas while on vacation with his family. Read More »
Colossal Youth (2006) Pedro Costa, Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon Read More »
The Fatalist (2005) João Botelho, Rogério Samora, André Gomes, Rita Blanco, Suzana Borges
Everything good or bad that happens to us “down here” is written “up there”. Read More »