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Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014)

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband. ...

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1st Time 16mm (2010)

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid. ...

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Blarghaaahrgarg (2010)

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest, most horrible monster ever. ...

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Um Funeral à Chuva (2009)

A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In fulfilling his last dying wish, the group goes on a journey of self discovery about the true essence of friendship ...

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Contrato (2009)

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco. ...

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No... Just Passing By (2007)

Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination. ...

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Ensaio Sobre o Teatro (2006)

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of "ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA" (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago. ...

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Fin de curso (2005)

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typi ...

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Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara (2004)

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you ...

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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA (2003)

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A. ...

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Ruy Blas (2002)

Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her. ...

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A Falha (2002)

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old ...

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In That Neighbouhood (2002)

Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in "Sunset Neighborhood". Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One of her neighbors, an old lady keeps on asking her: "Maybe you could get pregnant?" "Maybe…" she answers. After ...

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Moonfish (2000)

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they're getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we're on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon's south ...

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Alta Fidelidade (2000)

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever. ...

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On the Edge of the Horizon (1993)

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger. ...

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Family Matters (1993)

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him. ...

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The End of the World (1993)

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.. ...

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Marie (1993)

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy. ...

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Aqui D'El Rei! (1992)

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a ...

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The Curse of Marialva (1991)

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown. ...

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Three Crowns of the Sailor (1991)

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story. ...

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The King's Trial (1990)

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XI ...

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Luísa e os Outros (1989)

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto. ...

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Young Toscanini (1988)

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man. ...

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The Beggars (1988)

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and ...

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The Jester (1987)

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play. ...

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Repórter X (1987)

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist. ...

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Saint-Tropez Vice (1987)

A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers. ...

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Exit-exil (1986)

The film follows Duke and Olivia , a troubled couple living in a gloomy city. Duke is a failed, alcoholic saxophonist, while Olivia works as a striptease dancer. Trapped in a toxic environment, Olivia decides to break free from Duke's self-destructive life ...

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A Moura Encantada (1985)

A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive "enchanted moura," sparking a poetic journey that intertwines ancient Arabic folktales with contemporary rural life. Drawing on medieval prose and verse, the film ...

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O Vestido Cor de Fogo (1985)

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but J ...

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Impossível Evasão (1983)

Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it is a touching descent into the emotional misery of the petty bourgeoisie living in rented rooms, suffocating on precarious civil service salaries, with a cu ...

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A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena (1983)

The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way. ...

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A Noite de Walpurgis (1983)

A Noite de Walpurgis is a fantastic tale by Hugo Rocha, admittedly inspired by Goethe's Faust. The narrator-protagonist reveals a story told to him by a third person. Here the third person is an old peasant woman that the protagonist finds in a walk throug ...

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The Siren's Song (1983)

Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology. ...

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Circle of Passions (1983)

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife. ...

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Terra Nova, Mar Velho (1983)

Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing. ...

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No Trace of Sin (1983)

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences. ...

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Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob! (1982)

The village innkeeper Lejba Sibal and his pregnant wife Sura are threatened by Lejba's former farmhand Georg, who wants to kill them both at Easter. After Lejba has sought help from the authorities in vain, he decides to fight back himself. ...

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The State of Things (1982)

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film. ...

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Life Is Beautiful (1982)

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friend ...

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Francisca (1981)

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace. ...

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Oxalá (1981)

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman. ...

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O Defunto (1981)

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature. ...

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The Fault (1980)

Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the killing of two men (a soldier and a native) by his sounding of the alarm during one given night. ...

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Manhã Submersa (1980)

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents ...

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The Donkey-Eared Prince (1980)

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war ap ...

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The Holy Alliance (1980)

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manip ...

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O Visconde (1980)

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals. ...

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Doomed Love (1979)

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. ...

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O Viajante (1978)

Abílio is a travelling salesman with as much ability to sell as he is inconvenient. He makes a stop Mrs. Etelvina's pension for business and something more. ...

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Nós Por Cá Todos Bem (1978)

In his childhood haunts, in the village of Várzea dos Amarelos, the filmmaker films peasant life with its seasonal and daily rituals: a festive meal, the slaughter of a pig, bread-making. The film slides into imagination and blends with fiction: memories ...

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A Cama (1975)

A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until they reach a beach - where, exhausted, they end up falling asleep. ...

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Meus Amigos (1974)

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten years later, they have lost all their ideals. With Lisbon on the background they discuss politics, love, cultu ...

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Portugal... Minha Saudade (1973)

Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives in Lisbon and writes inviting him to go to Portugal. ...

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Just Pedro (1972)

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who i ...

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O Recado (1972)

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal. ...

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The Circle (1970)

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters fi ...

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O Diabo Era Outro (1969)

Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company. ...

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Um Campista em Apuros (1968)

While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that contains... 200 thousand dollars worth of jewelery stolen by the two girls in Marbella. ...

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The Real Bargain (1965)

The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry. ...

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Dom Roberto (1962)

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fanc ...

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