Tag Archives: portuguese

Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. Read More »

A bleak drama about street children abandoned by the Portuguese juvenile system, Os Mutantes/The Mutants was immediately controversial in Portugal Read More »

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime’s secret police. Read More »

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog Beach. Read More »

He doesn’t know her, she doesn’t know him, but somewhere on the highway between Lisbon and Porto, he stops to rest and there she is: as lost as he is. Read More »

Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »

A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »

Documentary about Santiago, a strange person who was able to work for the manager as well as his parents as a butler. Read More »

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »

This movie is the sequel to “God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun” (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the “Blond Devil”), last of the Cangaceiros. Read More »