Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and her daughter. Read More »
Tag Archives: portuguese
Vanity AKA Vanitas (2004) Paulo Rocha, Isabel Ruth, Joana Bárcia, Filipe Cochofel
Nela Calheiros, a Portuguese designer on the peak of her career Read More »
O Movimento das Coisas (1985) Manuela Serra
Dry Wind AKA Vento Seco (2020) Daniel Nolasco, Leandro Faria Lelo, Allan Jacinto Santana, Renata Carvalho
The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Read More »
The Puppeteer AKA Dom Roberto (1962) Ernesto de Sousa, Raul Solnado, Glicínia Quartin, Luís Cerqueira
João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity – what coins the people of Lisbon’s Read More »
The Heart’s Root AKA A Raiz do Coração (2000) Paulo Rocha, Luís Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Isabel Ruth
A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities Read More »
Lovely Child AKA Filha da Mãe (1990) João Canijo, José Wilker, Rita Blanco, Lídia Franco
The bitch is called Maria and she is a sweet child. She has no father and does not like her mother. Read More »
All the Women in the World AKA Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (1966) Domingos de Oliveira, Leila Diniz, Paulo José, Flávio Migliaccio
Womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. Read More »
Baixo Gávea (1986) Haroldo Marinho Barbosa, Lucélia Santos, Louise Cardoso, José Gregório
The existential questions of two young women who live together Read More »
A Portuguese Farewell AKA Um Adeus Português (1986) João Botelho, Isabel de Castro, Ruy Furtado, Maria Cabral, Fernando Heitor
PORTUGUESE AFRICA, 1973. Slowly, we have plenty of time: the words of the Second Lieutenant to the small band of soldiers he commands. Read More »
The Angel of the Night AKA O Anjo da Noite (1974) Walter Hugo Khouri, Selma Egrei, Eliezer Gomes, Lilian Lemmertz
Student girl goes to a mansion in Petrópolis, Brazil, to babysit two children Read More »
Cinema Inocente (1979) Júlio Bressane, Leovegildo Cordeiro, Nunes Pereira
A parodical interview with Radar, a known pornochanchada film editor Read More »
Passing By AKA De Passagem (2003) Ricardo Elias, Lohan Brandão, Thiago de Mello, Wilma de Souza
Jefferson and Washington are brothers, and have a common friend, Kennedy, whom they’ve known since they were kids. Read More »
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies AKA Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969) Júlio Bressane, Márcia Rodrigues, Renata Sorrah, Antero de Oliveira
There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents Read More »
The Age of the Earth AKA A Idade da Terra (1980) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga
The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Read More »