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- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsPatrícia GuerreiroSuzana BorgesRui MorissonA historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria de Noronha.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsGraciano DiasMaria FlorJoão PerryThe tragedy and comedy in Carlo's life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
- StarsAdriano LuzMaria João BastosRicardo PereiraFollows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
- DirectorCarlos Coelho da SilvaStarsJorge CorrulaSoraia ChavesNicolau BreynerAn young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraCécile Sanz de AlbaLuís Miguel CintraEma is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover.
- DirectorWalter CarvalhoStarsLeonardo MedeirosGabriella HámoriGiovanna AntonelliJosé Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects".
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsCatherine DeneuveJohn MalkovichLuís Miguel CintraThe journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsMarcello MastroianniJoaquim de AlmeidaDaniel AuteuilPortugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. There is civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power in Portugal, but he concerns himself only with his work (writing biographies of famous writers and translating French novels) and ignores what is going on around him. He hires Monteiro Rossi, an idealistic young man in love with a beautiful communist, as an assistant. He reluctantly helps them when they begin to get into trouble due to subversive activities. Eventually events force him to take a stand.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsRogério SamoraAlexandra LencastreRui MorissonBased on José Cardoso Pires' novel, O Delfim shows a rotten country, full of feudal lords who dominate its territory with dictatorship. One of them is Tomás da Palma Bravo, also known as O Delfim.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsFederico LuppiIcíar BollaínGabino DiegoAn inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsTeresa MenezesDiogo DóriaMário BarrosoThe life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraLeonor SilveiraDiogo DóriaA drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.
- DirectorJoão Nuno PintoStarsChulpan KhamatovaFernando LuísMaría BarrancoAmerica a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and swindling, born and bred in Portugal. Fernanda, the ex wife, who ten year's passed decides to drop by, is the gang leader, an Andalusian Spaniard. Victor has to decide which women to follow, Liza cannot really leave him, Fernanda doesn't really want to stay. The six year old kid hangs everybody by a string. Eastern European newcomers give new business perspectives that are going to rock their small world by the beach: Cova do Vapor. A chaotic neighborhood of precarious housing located at Lisbon's gates, where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic, where fishermen and retired factory workers coexist. An obscure little place, where everything suddenly changes, even the weather. After a violent storm, the gangster's house gets a rusted fishing boat hanging on top of their home. In the midst of the tragedy, there's always room for love, and most of all, hope for a piece paper called passport, sometimes fake!
- CreatorMaria Adelaide AmaralStarsIsabelle DrummondFábio AssunçãoAna Paula ArósioPortrait of the decadent Portuguese aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century, through the tragic history of a traditional Lisbon family.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsAntonio VilarDanik PatissonAura AbranchesDuring the absence of Jorge, a mining engineer, Luísa, his wife, allowed himself to be seduced by Basílio, a relative whom he had broken years before, who had gone to Brazil.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsMaria de MedeirosTeresa MadrugaLuís Miguel CintraThe daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraRicardo TrêpaLuís Miguel CintraLuciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.
- StarsAntónio Sequeira LopesCristina HauserElsa WallencampA story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsDiogo MorgadoKarra ElejaldeMaitê ProençaYoung man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
- DirectorAndré KlotzelStarsReginaldo FariaMarcos CarusoPetrônio GontijoFree adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsBeatriz BatardaFilipe DuarteMonica CalleBased on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsNuno DuarteJoão PerryLia GamaLiving in expeditions, a gang of friendly Malandro Lisboetas is one day contacted by mysterious Italian (from the Mafia, it is assumed) to steal part of the Lalique Collection, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsIgrejas CaeiroEunice ColbertEmilia D'OliveiraThe fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsAna MoreiraRicardo AibéoRogério SamoraEmília de Sousa, the great 19th-century Portuguese actress, abandoned her career to marry a rich aristocrat and became the Baroness Magdalene of the Sea. As beautiful as Empress Sissi, she built a mystery that lasted four generations.
- DirectorAntónio CamposStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaCristina MarcosMaria ArmindaIn the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he'll close a big deal. His wife Ermelinda, the prettiest girl in the village, starts to work as a maid in the house of a man called Santiago, nicknamed American. His manners, charm and indirectly his wealth finally seduce her, and a child is born. To get rid of her the American gives her money and helps Leonardo close his much sough-after deal. Meanwhile the American concentrates his attention on Guida, a girl of 16 who also gets pregnant. Santiago decides to court Ermelinda again, and she kills him in a fit of rage. Ermelinda tells her husband she killed the American in self defence. Leonardo takes responsability for the crime and flees to Spain to the house of his friend Iglesias. Some time later Leonardo realises he is not the father of the child and leaves his refuge to confront Ermelinda.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsIvo CanelasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraBruna Di TullioA critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsNicolau BreynerFernanda BorsattiHenrique VianaHipólito 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, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
- StarsGonçalo WaddingtonCândido FerreiraLeonor SeixasThe underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor BaldaqueLeonor SilveiraIsabel RuthHaving lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
- DirectorMário BarrosoStarsNicolau BreynerAna BandeiraRicardo PereiraAn alternative, almost heretical, explanation for the Fátima apparition of Our Lady and related miracles.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsNicolau Nunes Da SilvaErmelinda PiresMaria MadalenaLocal people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text.
- DirectorNicolau BreynerStarsPedro LimaCláudia VieiraVítor NortePeter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsAssumpta SernaRaul SolnadoPatrick BauchauIn Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
- DirectorPaulo NascimentoStarsEdson CelulariDaniela EscobarRogério SamoraIn 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip, the diseases and hunger aboard, his impressions of the new country, and the political struggle between the crowns of Castela and Portugal. In Brazil, he is going to fall in love with the wife of a Portuguese officer.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsJorge PerugorríaBianca ByingtonSusana RibeiroThe journey of a middle-class amateur.
- DirectorLauro AntónioStarsEunice MuñozVergílio FerreiraCanto e CastroEstefãnia 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 accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
- DirectorJosé Álvaro MoraisStarsFernando HeitorPaula GuedesLuís LucasSet 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.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsNelson XavierMaria CeiçaChico DíazNopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsBulle OgierLuís Miguel CintraAxel BogousslavskyFour versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsPaulo PiresSinde FilipeVítor NorteIn the 1940s André escapes from prison and is forced to leave the country illegally. In Oporto some friends arrange him a man, Lambaça, who knows the border of Tras-os-Montes (village in the north of Portugal) with Spain, thanks to his smuggler activity.
- DirectorEduardo García MarotoStarsMargarita AndreyAntonio VilarJuan EspantaleónIn XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
- DirectorValeria SarmientoStarsMarine DeltermeDidier FlamandValérie Zarrouk"El" re-imagined by Ruiz and Sarmiento as a portrait of a marriage characterized by shared jealousy, paranoia and lunacy.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsMiguel MolinaAntónio CapeloLydia BoschMitó lives in a small village and is the daughter of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja, the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopeless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsLaura SoveralJoão GuedesZita DuarteA married couple of rich and depressed noblemen destroy the lives of their servants out of spite.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsMaria OlguimHelga LinéArtur SemedoLives of circus performers in times of decay.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsDina TeresaAntónio Luis LopesAntonio LavradioThe (too brief) life, the (ardent) loves and the (too early) death of Maria Severa Onofirana (1820-1846), better known as "A Severa", a beautiful gypsy who, besides being a prostitute, sang in the taverns of the Mouraria area in Lisbon, and is said to have created the "Fado" style.
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaAna TorrentJean-Pierre CasselMacau 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 penniless and vagrant.
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsDiogo InfanteRuth GabrielMarcantonio Del CarloThe film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
- DirectorNoémia DelgadoStarsJoão GuedesAdelaide JoãoJosé Caldeira
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsIsabel de CastroRuy de CarvalhoIsabel RuthReflections on life and death through the eyes of a medicine doctor, researcher on blood deseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill young woman.
- DirectorJoão Mário GriloStarsAlexandra LencastreTeresa RobyRogério SamoraTwenty-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 grudges resurface in no time.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsAmélia Rey ColaçoRaul de CarvalhoAntónio DuarteLuísa, three years ago, Jorge's wife, who is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo, is aware of the arrival of his cousin Basilio, after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsPato MonizAntónio PinheiroBrunilde JúdiceSimão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.
- DirectorNoémia DelgadoStarsJoão GuedesAdelaide JoãoAdriano Luz
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsTeresa CasalCarmen DoloresRogério PauloManuel is a bank clerk, melancholic and atheist, torn between two Ana Maria, a quiet, religious girl, and Albertina, a fiery, daring art-model. His bank opens a branch in Africa, and he works there a couple of years. When he comes back, both girlfriends are married. Manuel falls prey to economic problems and faces moral dilemas, eventually finding a priesthood vocation.
- DirectorBárbara VirgíniaStarsBárbara VirgíniaJoão PerryAlfredo RuasBefore assuming her post in an isolated village, a teacher must leave for three days with the town priest to confront the violent lord of the hill.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsPaulo MaurícioAmália RodriguesBarreto PoeiraCastro Alves is the great poet of the black slaves' liberation, in 19th century Brazil. Eugenia Camara is the wild actress who crosses the Atlantic and finds herself torn between two loves, in a whirlwind of passion.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaMaria de MedeirosPaola DominguínOfelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsJoaquim AlmadaMaria MatosAntónio SilvaAdaptation of a novel by Júlio Dinis, depicting the romantic and rustic life in Portugal, circa 1863.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsMaria de Fátima BravoJacinto RamosAlina VazAurora is a modest young girl, working as dressmaker for the women her popular district, near the OPorto cathedral. One day, through a hintz-dress design competition, she gets involved with a haut couture atelier.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsJorge Sousa CostaJoão GuedesEmilio CorreiaAn inexperienced young doctor goes to practice in a village. The climate of distrust among the community turns into esteem for the new clinician, who meanwhile takes a liking to a girl who has arrived from abroad.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsSilvestre AlegrimHenrique CamposTeresa CasalThe amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, simultaneously, the warm connection of the other son of D. Luís, Maurício, with the devoted cousin Gabriela.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsMaria LalandeElsa RuminaOliveira MartinsThe ill-conceived loves of Rosa, a modest seamstress, and Fernando a doctor, leaving in the shadow the fateful passion of António (a liberal) for the young woman.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaAnna PaulaCurado RibeiroCarlos, from wealthy families, has a quarrel with his father, a widower, working in a seaside resort where some spinsters are staying, in the eagerness to find new boys.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsAnselmo DuarteMarisa PradoIsabel de CastroThe characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Peter and Daniel, the goodness of Joao Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsLucia AmramPaulo RenatoRuy de CarvalhoTheatrical adaptation: the repercussions of a fatal car accident on an upper middle class Portugese household of the 1950s.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsEunice MuñozIgrejas CaeiroMário PereiraA sad and strong people living in the huge plains of Alentejo. Their endless struggle for bread, their nostalgic, bewitching songs and their daily toil to turn a dry, barren land into golden wheat fields.
- DirectorSinde FilipeStarsJaime PereiraSinde FilipeJulião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again, and he must be by himself in the far woods. Bathing in olive oil, as suggested by an old woman, proves ineffective. Now, he becomes violent, expressing his anguish against those who expelled him from the village.
- DirectorAlfredo TropaStarsAntónio MontezErmelinda DuarteJorge RamalhoPedro 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 is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.
- DirectorArmando de MirandaStarsLeonor d'EçaAntónio de SousaPaiva RaposoCity couple lacking an objective in life, and happiness, buy a large piece of land in the vast planes of Alentejo. At first, they are happy learning to live like peasants, with simplicity and frugality. They watch them actually working for their daily bread, from throwing the seeds to the earth, harvesting, milling, and baking the bread, and always singing. António sets after a beautiful, married woman, Teresa, and her husband Joaquim vows revenge. But when he watches Jorge, a friend of António, sexually assaulting Isabel, Joaquim's christian soul takes over, and he saves Isabel. This brings peace and reconciliation for both estranged couples.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsErico BragaAurora CelesteSalvador CostaThe amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.
- DirectorFernando GarciaStarsÓscar AcúrcioSilva AraújoRaul de CarvalhoA thin thread of fiction, linking inserts of non-original documentary footage of Portuguese cod-fishers off the rich coasts of Newfoundland and Groenland. Heroic fights against raging seas and winds, deep fog and cold, plus a fire aboard. A man's world, where sometimes a woman in male dress does her share of work like a man...
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsDuarte SilvaMaria das NevesAntónio ValeTo shorten the way, Bonifácio Mendes a small-minded muleteer decides to cross the Mafra cover.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaria de OliveiraCarlos SantosErico BragaTells of the forbidden love between Rosa, a beautiful minhota, and Fernando, a voluble young man who studied medicine in Porto, spending holidays in the village.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaria de OliveiraMaria HelenaArthur DuarteThe distinctive loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct morals of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana.
- DirectorAugusto FragaStarsBrunilde JúdiceMário PereiraLigia Teles
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsIlda AndradeEmilio CorreiaGrece do CéuA young priest from the North, finds himself isolated in the hot prairies of the South. He resists temptation in the form of the daugh
- DirectorQuirino SimõesStarsFernando GusmãoCarmen MendesRui MendesWhile the Portuguese Army and volunteers, guided by English officers, beat Massena's Army back at Buçaco, five French soldiers on their escape route come upon an isolated house, where they rob food, and rape the young woman there. When José, a rude mountaineer ('malhadeiro'), returns to his devastated home, he engages in a deadly hunt.
- DirectorAlejandro PerlaStarsHortense LuzÓscar AcúrcioTeresa Gomes
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsRui MendesJúlio CésarEstrela Novais
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsBranco AlvesLuís AmaralJosé António