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Tag Archives: Portugal
Twist of Fate AKA Os Sorrisos do Destino (2009) Fernando Lopes, Ana Padrão, Rui Morrison, Milton Lopes, Teresa Tavares
Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband Read More »
Fragile as the World AKA Frágil Como o Mundo (2002) Rita Azevedo Gomes, Maria Gonçalves, Bruno Terra, Sophie Balabanian
An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can’t find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Read More »
Where I Grow Old AKA A Cidade onde Envelheço (2016) Marília Rocha, Elizabete Francisca, Francisca Manuel, Paulo Nazareth
Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. 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 »
Outside (2004) Fernando Lopes, Alexandra Lencastre, Rogério Samora, Maria João Abreu
Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Read More »
Our Beloved Month of August (2008) Miguel Gomes, Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Emmanuelle Fèvre
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity… Read More »
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 »
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums (1984)
A gang decides to rob the Gulbenkian Museum, tired of their petty robberies. Read More »
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007) Paul Auster, David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. 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 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 »