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Tag Archives: Portugal
A Portuguesa / The Portuguese Woman (2018) Rita Azevedo Gomes, Clara Riedenstein, Marcello Urgeghe, Ingrid Caven

His home is war. Her home is Portugal. Yet the young, newly married wife of Lord von Ketten Read More »
Doomed Love (1979) Manoel de Oliveira, António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Read More »
The Rose King / Der Rosenkönig (1986) Werner Schroeter, Magdalena Montezuma, Mostefa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. Read More »
A Tempestade da Terra / Earth Storm (1998) Fernando D’Almeida e Silva, Maria de Medeiros, João Grosso, Ângelo Torres

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins Read More »
The Satin Slipper / Le soulier de satin (1985) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman Read More »
A Comédia de Deus / God’s Comedy (1995) João César Monteiro, Cláudia Teixeira, Manuela de Freitas

João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute Read More »
O Processo do Rei / The King’s Trial (1990) João Mário Grilo, Carlos Daniel, Aurelle Doazan, Antonino Solmer

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança Read More »
The Dance of the Paroxysms (1929) Jorge Brum do Canto

A surreal short film in which a young man embarks on a journey through villages and the countryside. Read More »
The Age of Beauty (1992) Fernando Trueba

A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer’s four daughters Read More »
A Costa dos Murmúrios / The Murmuring Coast (2004)

During the war of in-dependency Evita (Beatriz Batarda) moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís (Filipe Duarte). Read More »
Die Screaming, Marianne (1971) Pete Walker, Susan George

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. Read More »
Self Destructive Boys (2018) Marco Leão

Self Destructive Boys is a direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys Read More »
Ordo (2004) Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Roschdy Zem, Marie-Josée Croze, Marie-France Pisier

Ordo Tupikos, a French sailor with Greek origins, discovers his ex-wife Estelle now a famous Read More »
State of the World / O Estado do Mundo (2007) Ayisha Abraham, Chantal Akerman, Shyam Bahadur, Jurandyr Ferreira, Sakda Kaewbuadee

O Estado do Mundo is a compilation of 6 different short movies Read More »