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- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsCláudio da SilvaCassiano CarneiroPedro InêsA remarkable imagining of the historic voyages of 16th-century explorer and writer Fernão Mendes Pinto, one of the first Europeans to sail to and travel the Orient-- India, Japan, and places in between. Choral renditions of Portuguese singer-songwriter Fausto's progressive 80's pop album "Por Este Rio Acima" add inspiration to a lush period drama.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsVasco GonçalvesPezarat CorreiaVasco LourençoA dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a social-democracy, read a book to a young girl, describing in a poetic, yet realistic way, what happened in the streets, and minds, of her People in April 25, 1974.
- DirectorMargarida GilStarsCarloto CottaSandra FaleiroVítor AndradeWhen João Lucas meets Maria and follows her home, he would have never guessed that she would lock him in a room without letting him out.
- DirectorMargarida GilStarsValerie BraddellFernando HeitorDiogo DóriaThe relationship between Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms with the characters who crossed paths with him, in a fictionalized vision of the poet's life.
- DirectorAlberto Seixas SantosStarsRita MartinsMadalena VictorinoBia GomesCecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.
- 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.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsManuela de FreitasLuís de Sousa CostaFrancisco DominguesFor his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glistening sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro's mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsLaura SoveralJoão GuedesZita DuarteA married couple of rich and depressed noblemen destroy the lives of their servants out of spite.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsMaria Velho da CostaJosé DiogoCarlos MenaBy cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
- DirectorAugusto CabritaFernando LopesStarsHernâni SantosA documentary linking several districts of Lisbon with almost the entire history of Portugal.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsZita DuarteVanda FrançaAdelaide JoãoA film crew goes to Várzea dos Amarelos visit the mother of the director, fixing some of the moments of the local life and listens to the old lady.
- DirectorManuel Costa e Silva
- DirectorAlfredo TropaStarsLaura SoveralRuy de CarvalhoAlexandre O'NeillHot springs in Portugal, for treatment or pleasure, are as old the nation, and of a wide diversity.
- DirectorFernando Matos SilvaStarsJoaquim Rosa
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsFlorbela QueirozSinde FilipeTomás de MacedoWorld peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsAlexandre O'Neill
- DirectorFaria de AlmeidaStarsDuarte Ferreira
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsLucia AmramPaulo RenatoRuy de CarvalhoTheatrical adaptation: the repercussions of a fatal car accident on an upper middle class Portugese household of the 1950s.
- DirectorErnesto de SousaStarsRaul SolnadoGlicínia QuartinLuís CerqueiraJoão 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 fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsLuís AlbertoManuela CassolaManuel Cavaco
- DirectorAntónio Pedro
- DirectorRuy FerrãoStarsLaura AlvesNicolau BreynerLuís Cerqueira
- DirectorConstantino EstevesStarsFernando FarinhaLeónia MendesRodolfo NevesThe life of Fernando Farinha, from kid where he ran away to school - to sing the fado, and the condescension of the parents, although aspiring to have an "honest" job.
- DirectorPaulo César FajardoStarsFilipe SáOne day between days of contemplating the Sun and the Nature in a sunny afternoon, where random serenity surrounds us at each morning and day, each month and year. A reflection on the cyclic passing of time through the voices of several Portuguese poets.
- DirectorDaniel Lima
- 1984– 24mTV EpisodeDirectorNuno TeixeiraStarsMário ViegasIrene CruzBernardo SarmentoThe Host presents Camöens, and "interviews" him, reciting some of his poems, as biographical answers. Other poets are quoted in references to Camöens, and his life and social commentary.
- 1984– 28mTV EpisodeDirectorNuno TeixeiraStarsMário ViegasEugénio SalvadorEunice MuñozThe present of three silent actors, illustrates the poems recited by the Host in which the relations between poetry and theater are addressed variously.
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsJosé de Almada NegreirosAntónio de MacedoNatália CorreiaThe director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his former poetic and philosophical works.
- DirectorNuno TeixeiraStarsMário ViegasAntónio MarquesThe Host presents the Poet, by way of a "live interview" with Fernando Pessoa, and presents his heterononym Alberto Caeiro, to say ten of of his poems in bucolic scenes.
- DirectorAntónio Escudeiro
- DirectorJoão RoqueStarsFernanda AlvesRui PedroArminda Taveira
- DirectorNuno TeixeiraStarsMário ViegasRosa Lobato FariaMário Viegas vows to present in this program the poems that he likes very much.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsSophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- DirectorJosé Álvaro MoraisStarsMário Cesariny de VasconcelosArpad SzenesGuy WellenThe film documents the places where Portuguese Vieira da Silva, and Hungarian Arpad Szenes were born, met, and lived together, painting, and living to each other.
- 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.
- StarsAgustina Bessa-LuísMaria João SeixasTwo women writers, with diversified cultural and sociological interests, debate various subjects that come about in 13 conversations at a country home, discussing certain or hypothetical meanings of many Portuguese proverbs.
- 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.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor BaldaqueLeonor SilveiraIsabel RuthHaving lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraJosé PintoIsabel RuthThey are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. He has his work cut out for him. When the curtain falls on this tragic comedy, we have been moved in time to Porto in the thirties. Suzy, a kept woman, who is probably going to die on the operating table, sums up her philosophy on life: "This is but a detail." To comfort the dandy who has just had a very intense affair with this women, a friend tells him the tale of Fisalina. A country girl who discovers that her fingertips are made of gold. She becomes the mother of a river for a thousand years.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMichel PiccoliIrene PapasLeonor SilveiraThe battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa. The intriguing guests are an older unmarried couple, the philosophical and observant Irene, and Michel, a roué. While Rogério and Irene talk, Michel and Leonor go down to the sea. The conversations upset Rogério and capture Leonor's imagination. Five years later, the four dine at the villa. Michel and Leonor again leave the other two. Intentions and undercurrents are subtle. One of the four proves strong, one weak, and two must choose. Wind and rain bring down the curtain on both acts.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsManoel de OliveiraMaria Isabel de OliveiraDiogo DóriaA docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira's life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.
- 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.
- DirectorCorreia AlvesStarsAdelaide JoãoAna BustorffRui Madeira
- StarsRui MendesAntónio AssunçãoPaula MoraAn entertaining and comical detective series featuring over-the-top stories, spectacular chase scenes, and hilarious villains.
- DirectorRogério CeitilStarsJosé AmadorFernando Assis PachecoAntónio BeringelaJorge 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, accompanied when necessary by Antonio, his photographer.
- DirectorRogério Ceitil
- DirectorArtur CorreiaRicardo Neto
- DirectorTeresa OlgaStarsLuzia ParamésÂngela PintoDavid Silva
- DirectorManuel VarelaStarsAntónio ArgentinoMaria Vieira
- DirectorSérgio TréfautStarsIsabel RuthLeonor SilveiraHugo BentesA beautiful and intense visual story about hunger, misery and exploitation in southern Portugal in the 1950's and about the growing rage and strength building up upon people. The Alentejo planes and the night smuggling scenes are beautifully shot on black and white.
- 1984– 26mTV EpisodeDirectorNuno TeixeiraStarsMário ViegasArtur MendonçaB. Morais SarmentoThe Host presents and recites short and long poems, humorous and dramatic, presenting them with wit - namely the (un)complete recital of the national epic "The Lusiads", by Camöens.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsMilúAntónio SilvaEugénio SalvadorWhen Lucas, an amateur theater director, tries to become a professional, ends up fighting with Lico, an amateur actor. Things get worse when Lico falls in love with Lena, Lucas's niece, dating her without her uncle's permission.
- 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.
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsBeatriz BatardaFilipe DuarteMonica CalleBased on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsLuisa MartínezFernanda LapaJoão Grosso
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsVictoria AbrilSaul SantosArmando CortezA 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.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsAmália RodriguesJorge Brum do CantoMaria AdelinaA Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting the love of a teenager, recently arrived from Africa.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsBeatriz CostaManuel Santos CarvalhoJosé AmaroThe story of how Gracinda, a young washerwoman, tries to revitalize her decadent business with the help of Chico, for whom she's in love, and her uncle, who has a fiery rivalry with Quitéria, owner of another laundry business.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsNascimento FernandesBeatriz CostaProcópio FerreiraJosé Maria, whom they always confuse with someone, ends up convincing himself that he is like everyone else, enjoying the pleasure of getting settled in the lives of others.