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Tag Archives: Portugal
Summertime Killer AKA Un verano para matar (1972) Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Karl Malden, Olivia Hussey, Christopher Mitchum

A six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Read More »
The Blood AKA O Sangue (1989) Pedro Costa, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. Read More »
And when I die, I won’t stay dead (2015) Billy Woodberry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Susanne Cockrell, Ossie Davis

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck

A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »
Down to Earth AKA Casa de Lava (1994) Pedro Costa, Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker Read More »
(Be)longing AKA Volta à Terra (2014) Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, João Pedro Plácido

Volta à Terra tells the story of an endangered community: farmers who practice subsistence farming in a mountainous Read More »
Coming and Going AKA Vai E Vem (2003) João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau

Driven by his struggle against the illness that would ultimately prove fatal, Monteiro fervently devoted himself to his deeply personal last work 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 »
Lent AKA Quaresma (2003) José Álvaro Morais, Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Cary, Rita Durão, Ricardo Aibéo

David is married, has a daughter, and is about to leave Portugal with his family. Read More »