Vítor Norte

O Caso Coutinho (2022)

A lonely old man fights against the mysterious forces that threaten to enter his house. ...

Floating House (2022)

It tells the story of Araci, a woman who saw her daughter murdered by ranchers. She emigrates to Mértola with her husband and their granddaughter, who will grow up without forgetting the indigenous rituals and teachings of Brazil. ...

Terra Nova (2021)

Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's "The Lugger" and "In the Seas of the End of the World", this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the ...

Shadow (2021)

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive. ...

Before the Mountains (2020)

A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre. ...

Carga (2018)

A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive. ...

Ruth (2018)

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria ...

Misantropo (2017)

Jigging (2016)

A perfect day, blue skies and perfect weather. Zé is going fishing. On a desert lake a strange and charismatic character rents boats using an old semi abandoned trailer. Both of them are part of an infernal cycle that will end up transforming the prey int ...

Histórias de Alice (2016)

It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots across the ocean, discovering an intricate love story. Lucas's father, Olavo, was the son of a very wealthy Po ...

O Leão da Estrela (2015)

The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win? ...

Famel Top Secret (2014)

PP decides to invest all his family fortune in a new line of production of his new project for a new FAMEL motorcycle, but he doesn't expect that someone has other plans for his project. ...

Eclipse em Portugal (2014)

Tó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal, the hand of a friend and Anita knows the drummer for who ends up falling in love. ...

O Cônsul de Bordéus (2012)

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to P ...

Assault on the Santa Maria (2010)

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship. ...

Contrato (2009)

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

A Ilha dos Escravos (2008)

After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they ...

Lobos (2007)

The Fascination (2003)

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas. ...

The Policewoman (2003)

A young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other. ...

Sans elle... (2003)

Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share the same room, the same tastes, the same bike, the same camping tent. But also a conflict principle sets in. ...

Light Drops (2002)

Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and h ...

Anjo Caído (2001)

A boy lives with his mother and younger sister. One day, his mother disappears with her lover, leaving the two children alone. António, the older brother, takes care of his sister, Maria da Luz. The little girl is about 10 months old. When she starts walk ...

Lena (2001)

Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, street smart Lena, 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a fat ...

Lourdes (2000)

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities eve ...

Mustang (2000)

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life... ...

Tarde Demais (2000)

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive. ...

Breathing Under Water (2000)

What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets h ...

Monsanto (2000)

Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationshi ...

A Hora da Liberdade (1999)

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy. ...

Jaime (1999)

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to ...

In the Shadow of the Vultures (1998)

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship. ...

Black Shoes (1998)

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case. ...

Five Days, Five Nights (1996)

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain. ...

Ao Sul (1995)

Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He's back now. Every ...

Uma Vida Normal (1994)

Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life. ...

See You Tomorrow, Mário (1994)

Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening. ...

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (1993)

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself pennil ...

O Miradouro da Lua (1993)

A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns to his country. When he goes to his father's address, he has a big surprise and his life will change ... ...

No Dia dos Meus Anos (1992)

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air. ...

Os Cornos de Cronos (1991)

A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl. ...

El invierno en Lisboa (1991)

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer. ...

Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão (1991)

TV movie from the series "A la Minuta," an action comedy with a very special "gang. ...

Malvadez (1990)

Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers ...

Jaz Morto e Arrefece (1989)

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship? ...

Your Neighbour's Wife (1988)

Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good. ...

Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss (1988)

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. ...

Agosto (1988)

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time. ...

Meia Noite (1988)

A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstition, and is devastated when it comes true. She learns that someone in the city foresaw the same fate, and against his wishes, she returns to confront him, o ...

Duma Vez Por Todas (1987)

Lisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance. ...

Era Uma Vez Um Alferes (1987)

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot... ...

O Chico Fininho (1982)

Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the figure of Chico Fininho, immortalized in the popular song of the same name. A bunch of people are interviewed taking us to Boavista - where we find him in a club. ...

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 ...