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Tag Archives: Portugal
Just a Normal Life / Uma Vida Normal (1994) Joaquim Leitão, Joaquim de Almeida, María Barranco, Anamar

Miguel is 40 years old and has his great share of the usual problems. Read More »
20.13: Purgatory / 20,13 (2006) Joaquim Leitão, Marco D’Almeida, Adriano Carvalho, Carla Chambel

Mozambique, 24th of December 1969, a Portuguese army patrol return Read More »
Kiss Me (2004) António da Cunha Telles, Marisa Cruz, Manuel Wiborg, Nicolau Breyner, Clara Pinto Correia

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives Read More »
1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs / Black Tights (1960) Terence Young, Cyd Charisse, Moira Shearer, Zizi Jeanmaire

Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit Read More »
48 (2010) Susana de Sousa Dias, Georgette Ferreira, Dias Lourenço, Sofia Ferreira

Filmmaker Susana Sousa Dias traces Portugal’s period of fascism from 1926 until 1974. Read More »
Jardim (2008) João Vladimiro

4 hectares of ground are the gardens that surround the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Read More »
The Curse of Marialva / “Sabbath” La maldición de María Alva (1989) António de Macedo, Lídia Franco, Carlos Daniel, Carlos Santos

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors Read More »
Cosmos (2015) Andrzej Zulawski, Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet

Witold just failed his law-school exams and Fuchs has just quit his job at a Parisian fashion company. Read More »
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma / Cristóvão Colombo – O Enigma (2007) Manoel de Oliveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Baldaque

From the 1940’s to today, Manuel Luciano has tried to discover the true identity of Christopher Columbus. Read More »
Just Peter / Pedro Só (1972) Alfredo Tropa, António Montez, Ermelinda Duarte, Jorge Ramalho

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between Read More »
Marcel Proust’s Time Regained (1999)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood Read More »
Operation Autumn / Operação Outono (2012) Bruno de Almeida, John Ventimiglia, Diogo Dória, Nuno Lopes

Operation Autumn is a political “thriller” about the covert operation of the assassination Read More »
The Dauphin / O Delfim (2002) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Alexandra Lencastre, Rui Morisson

Portugal, late sixties. Tomás Palma Bravo, the Dauphin, is the heir to a world in decay. Read More »
Mutant Blast (2018) Fernando Alle, Pedro Barão Dias, Maria Leite, João Vilas

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength Read More »