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Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Port...

12 de out. de 1990

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

09 de set. de 1990

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

03 de dez. de 1981

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnan...

21 de nov. de 1975

A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

26 de mai. de 2004

Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes c...

15 de set. de 1982

20 de abr. de 1967

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ―...

07 de dez. de 1989

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 197...

07 de set. de 1985

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, ...

15 de mar. de 1965

01 de jan. de 1975

Three boys grow up in war torn Syria.

01 de mai. de 2002

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill ...

13 de abr. de 1966

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

29 de ago. de 1988

Luís Medeiros, Azorean painter, meets two odd characters in an exhibit in Lisbon: Inês, a charming woman, and Ed, a sneaky man. The two reveal to h...

07 de dez. de 1987

In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance, L...

15 de set. de 1978

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments...

10 de set. de 2016

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America...

08 de jan. de 1986

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer marrie...

08 de jun. de 1982

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princes...

29 de ago. de 1980

No Porto, Manoel de Oliveira está prestes a deixar a casa que ocupou durante décadas por causa de suas dívidas. Ao espectador, ele fala sobre sua h...

15 de out. de 1993

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist pol...

18 de out. de 2000

The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unus...

16 de jun. de 1973

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...

19 de fev. de 1982

A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way.

09 de set. de 1980

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

01 de jan. de 1989

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of wha...

25 de abr. de 1999

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

02 de jan. de 2009

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. D...

27 de jan. de 1984

A historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Mar...

26 de jun. de 2001

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

09 de dez. de 1988

Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady ...

03 de abr. de 1979

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 y...

17 de out. de 1980

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems...

13 de nov. de 1991

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the...

01 de nov. de 1970

Chronicle of resistance and hope - about Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes: roots of the past, discourse of the future, the current reality.

01 de set. de 1977

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat ...

18 de mai. de 1998

This is a documentary about a way of living in Madeira island in Portugal, after the revolution, after April's 25 in 1974. A unique document for th...

16 de mai. de 1978

In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the arc...

01 de nov. de 1976

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a film promoting tourism in the Algarve city (such as Lisbon, Jardim...

01 de jan. de 1968

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about t...

06 de out. de 1993

06 de dez. de 1965

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental d...

01 de out. de 1977

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'...

08 de jun. de 1972

The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor driver,...

02 de jan. de 1976

A old portuguese tail

01 de jan. de 1976

A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The on...

01 de jan. de 1979

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Fer...

01 de jan. de 1967

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

01 de jan. de 1980

The French painter Edouard Manet painted four canvases depicting the execution in 1867 of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. This short dramatic film ev...

03 de out. de 1990

Jorge Lopes is a journalist in a Lisbon daily newspaper. He does story after story in the Portuguese capital, covering all the aspects of its life,...

06 de jan. de 1975

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed...

21 de out. de 1977

In an empty theatre, a woman is watching an American film - "Ma's Sin" - which tells the weird revenge story of a middle-aged wife, driven mad by j...

21 de jun. de 1996

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his f...

24 de out. de 1969

A documentary about a small touristic village in Algarve, Southern Portugal.

01 de jan. de 1977