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An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanda Duarte

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diogo Infante

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariya Lipkina

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugues Quester

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Bolito

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vítor Norte

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nelson Xavier

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cristina Homem de Mello

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bianca Byington

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Núria Madruga

A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diogo Dória

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanne Balibar

Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramiro Naka

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

A dream girl can cause a lot of insomnia. That's what happens to Daniel Bricks, a young british engineer, working temporarily at the construction...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diogo Infante

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Afonso Pimentel