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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis / 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 »
A Portuguese Farewell / Um Adeus Português (1986) João Botelho, Isabel de Castro, Ruy Furtado, Maria Cabral, Fernando Heitor
PORTUGUESE AFRICA, 1973. Slowly, we have plenty of time: the words of the Second Lieutenant to the small band of soldiers he commands. Read More »
The Other One (1981) Conversa Acabada
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. Read More »
Disquiet (2010) João Botelho, Cláudio da Silva, Pedro Lamares, Ricardo Aibéo
A room in Lisbon. A man dreams and establishes a theory to make it come true. 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 »
Quem És Tu? / Who Are You? (2001) João Botelho, Patrícia Guerreiro, Suzana Borges, Rui Morisson, Drama, History
Aged 13, Maria Noronha is an estremely pale and fragil girl, sick with tubercolosis. In order to alleviate her suffering, she gathers poppies from her garden, and at night puts them on the pillows on her bed. But the poppies have a devastating effect. Her deep sleep is disturbed by terrible ghosts and hallucinations: about the decadence of the Portuguese XVII century, the Jesuits’s power and the terrible Inquisition.
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Tráfico / Traffic (1998) João Botelho, Joaquim Oliveira, Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz, Branca de Camargo, Comedy
It all begins when an average family (slightly chilly because they’re forced to take their vacation out of season) is struck by good fortune.
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