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Tag Archives: Portugal
Memories and Confessions (1993) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal. Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich

A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »
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 »