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- DirectorMaria de MedeirosStarsStefano AccorsiMaria de MedeirosJoaquim de AlmeidaStory of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsGiancarlo GianniniOrnella MutiOtar KoberidzeAntonio is a retired aviator from the Portuguese colonial wars. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship of Antonio d'Oliveira Salazar. He is arrested and escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: 'Life is Beautiful.'
- DirectorJoaquim Jordà
- DirectorJosé Filipe CostaStarsJoão Miguel RodriguesAlda VirgílioAngélika RodriguesIn 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this emblematic film of the Portuguese revolutionary period: in which way did Harlan interfered in the events that seems to naturally develop in front of the camera? What was the impact of the film on the lives of the occupants and the memory of that period?
- DirectorJosé Filipe CostaStarsJosé AvelinoJoão AzevedoAmanda Booth1975, post-Carnation Revolution Portugal, many foreigners come help out in newly formed co-ops. But their progressive views on customs and sexuality soon clash with local mores.
- StarsÁlvaro CervantesAlfonso BassaveMarina SalasThe Roman Catholic Church faces the new challenges of Protestanism in Northern Europe and Paganism in the Americas. Carlos V seeks to secure the power of the Church, in this continuation of Isabel (2011-2014) and La Corona Partida (2016).
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
- DirectorLionel BaierStarsValérie DonzelliMichel VuillermozPatrick LappApril 1974. The Federal Councellor, annoyed by the anti-establishment tone of The French speaking Swiss radio channel, imposes "safer" subjects on Philippe de Roulet, the programs director. To please him, de Roulet sends to Portugal a team composed of Julie, a dedicated feminist, Cauvin, a former war reporter sidelined since he started losing memory, and Bob, a sound technician close to retirement, with the mission to report on the impact of Swiss aid to the country. They comply more or less reluctantly, but the results of their investigation are so pathetic that they decide to drop the whole thing and to drive back to Lausanne. This is exactly the time when their path crosses that of a trio of Belgian journalists who tell them that a full-scale revolution is under way...
- DirectorIvo FerreiraStarsMiguel NunesMargarida Vila-NovaRicardo PereiraBased on António Lobo Antunes's novel, a collection of letters written by a young soldier, doctor and a aspirant writer, to his wife while he was serving in Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Portuguese Colonial War, a war between Portugal with its former overseas provinces.
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsBeatriz BatardaFilipe DuarteMonica CalleBased on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
- DirectorMargarida Cardoso
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsJoana BárciaAdriano LuzRui Morisson
- 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.
- DirectorBruno GonçalvesStarsJaime Nogueira Pinto
- StarsDiogo MorgadoSoraia ChavesHéléna NoguerraA look into the romantic life of Portugal's dictator António de Oliveira Salazar with the French writer Christine Garnier in the summer of 1951.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsFrancisco FroesDaniela MelchiorDiogo MorgadoIn a theatre in Parque Mayer, during rehearsals for a new variety show, there are all kinds of goings on: unrequited love, small personal dramas and a constant battle against censorship, accompanied by skilful attempts to circumvent it.
- DirectorJoão LeitãoStarsGonçalo WaddingtonDavid Chan CordeiroJosé PintoFollows Portugal's first fascist superhero: the ultra patriotic Captain Falcon!
- DirectorSouheil Ben-BarkaUchkun NazarovStarsMassimo GhiniClaudia CardinaleUgo TognazziVarious battles including that of Lepanto.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraDiogo DóriaMiguel GuilhermeEpisodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsMaria ClaraEmilia D'OliveiraAlexandre de AzevedoA man with communist beliefs falls in love with a woman with salazarian beliefs. The most well known portuguese fascist propaganda feature.
- DirectorMário BarrosoStarsMaria de MedeirosMarcello UrgegheJoão Pedro MamedeIn 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural, and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a chauffeur 26 years her junior.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsTarcísio MeiraGlória MenezesDionísio AzevedoThe dream of Brazilian independence, under Dom Pedro I, is expressed in the cry of "Freedom or Death" (O Grito de Independencia ou Morte), since cries were the only way to rally up support against colonial oppression. Dom Pedro I (played by Tarcisio Meira) heads Brazil's break from his own parent's homeland, Portugal. A classic Brazilian historical costume drama epic.
- DirectorTom CleggStarsSean BeanPete PostlethwaiteDaragh O'MalleyAn army of British, French, Spanish and Portuguese deserters, lead by Sharpe's arch-nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill, has kidnapped two English women and held them for ransom. Hakeswill demands that Sharpe deliver the ransom money himself.
- DirectorLuís AlbuquerqueStarsAlexandre OliveiraMargarida SousaMiguel BaboIn this biographical film we follow the life of a warrior that thousands of years ago fought and gave his life for a territory that would later become Lusitania. Facing off against the Roman empire, he dedicated his life to protecting his people.
- 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.