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- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsPaul HamyJoão Pedro RodriguesXelo CagiaoFernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsVenturaVitalina VarelaTito Furtado"The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim." This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa's "Colossal Youth" with Ventura again playing himself.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsTelmo ChurroMiguel GomesHortêncílio AquinaA restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsAna Cristina de OliveiraNuno GilJoão CarreiraPedro and Rui kiss after a first-anniversary dinner; Pedro drives home, dying en route in a crash. Another pair of lovers, Odete and Alberto, split over her desire to have a child. Pedro lived in Odete's building. She attends the wake, stealing a ring, a last gift from Rui, from Pedro's finger. She behaves hysterically at the graveside, and later, wearing Pedro's ring, she insists she's carrying Pedro's child. Rui grieves as well, drinking too much and seeing Pedro's apparition. Odete's obsession intrudes on Rui, whose grief makes him vulnerable to her hysteria. Can this end well?
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsMaria do Céu GuerraJoão JesusFernanda SerranoAn 18 year old boy with a complicated life starts a criminal career but ends up on a rooftop of Lisbon. On the apartment below lives a recently widowed, lonely old lady. Against all odds and her family's will, they become each others best company.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsRita BlancoAnabela MoreiraCleia AlmeidaA regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsNuno LopesMariana NunesDavid SemedoAn unemployed boxer turned collection agency employee deals with the deplorable methods they have to use when collecting bad debts.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsCláudia TeixeiraJoão César MonteiroManuela de FreitasJoão de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMichel PiccoliCatherine DeneuveJohn MalkovichThe comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaEmmanuelle SeignerNicolau BreynerEvery year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
- DirectorMiguel Gonçalves MendesStarsJoão AfonsoÀngels BarcelóPilar del RíoA documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
- DirectorJosé BarahonaStarsPaulo AzevedoRenata FerrazAmanda Fontoura"I was in Lisbon and remembered you" is a Brazil-Portugual co-production, based on the book by the prized Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato. The film was directed by the Portuguese director, José Barahona, who has also written the screenplay. Barahona has been living in Brazil for the last years. This is his first feauture filme. The shooting took place in the small town of Cataguases, Brazil and in Lisbon, Portugal. "In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I chose working with amateur actors and non-actors in both cities, so their own life stories and experiences could be in the film. I did the other way round from the writer. He found these people and made them characters of his book. I looked for people who had similar stories to those described in the book, and made them characters of my film. When I read the book, I was seduced by its "false documentary" characteristic. The book was all written as if it was the transcription of an oral interview the writer had done in Lisbon. I decided to keep this narrative in the film, by a narration with the main character talking to the camera. It's a film about emigration. About dreams and disappointments," says Barahona.
- 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.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsChico BuarqueCamanéCarminhoA drama steeped in Portugal's Fado music culture.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsLaura MorantePhilip J. SpinelliManuela de FreitasLaura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrives looking for Robert.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMaria de MedeirosMiguel GuilhermeLuís Miguel CintraPatients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.
- 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 CintraPatricia BarzykAnne ConsignyDuring 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. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsJoão César MonteiroRita Pereira MarquesJoaquina ChicauJoão Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsRui GomesIsabel RuthRuy Furtado19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful, and modern, and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.
- DirectorCatarina MourãoStarsCatarina MourãoFamilies can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and discover new truths.
- 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.
- StarsVirgílio CasteloLeonor SilveiraSoraia ChavesThe show follows Mário Magalhães, a psychotherapist, through his weekly meetings with his patients, including his appointment with his own therapist.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsGeraldo Del ReyIsabel RuthMaria BarrosoAfter a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. Discouraged, the man meets a new girlfriend who vows to escape the town's crushing poverty even if she has to steal. The two begin a relationship but the film does not indicate what their future may hold.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsBelarmino FragosoJean Pierre GeblerMaria Teresa de NoronhaInterview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsJorge TrêpaRicardo TrêpaMaria de MedeirosThe city of Porto viewed by the intimate eye of Manoel de Oliveira.
- 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.
- StarsSofia AlvesAlbano JerónimoFernanda SerranoMariana is a successful business woman, she works at ImoAndrade. She's done with sexism and the owner of the company and decides to left, with the support of other 5 women she'll create her own successful company.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsLuís Miguel CintraClara JoanaZita DuarteTheatrical drama influenced by the Portuguese medieval poem of the same name, about an island promised to Lusitanian warriors by the Goddess Venus.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsLuís Miguel CintraInês de MedeirosMaria de MedeirosLaura lives in Vouzela with her husband who is a lot older than her. When her brother Nuno visits her, he realizes that Laura does not have a happy life.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsFabienne BabeCanto e CastroFrancesca PrandiEloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to be the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon - and is also Eloi's daughter.
- 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.
- DirectorMargarida CordeiroAntónio ReisStarsAlbino S. PedroCarlos MargaridoMariana MargaridoIt's a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it's an "etnofiction": portraits the typical characters of Terra Fria, the North-east of Portugal, showing secular habits, in a majestic rural ambient. It's one of the works that represents the New Cinema (Novo Cinema) portuguese movement, and one of the first portuguese docudrama.
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsMaria de MedeirosMarcello UrgegheEvgeniy SidikhinLisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go separate ways. When Maria does need help, the three brothers will join again - but a trifle too late.
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsGuida MariaSinde FilipeJoão MotaA couple of traditional fishermen are linked by a secret vote of chastity. One day, they take in a wounded gypsy man, out of their Christian piety. As time goes by, a relationship, and love emerges between the healthy young woman and the gypsy. The reaction of the local society, and the explosion of repressed sentiments will come to a swirling vortex of violence - abduction, shootings, and forced sex.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsIvo CanelasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraBruna Di TullioA critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsRita BlancoAdriano LuzTeresa MadrugaDuring one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMaria Amélia MattaJorge RollaVarela SilvaRaised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMaria de SaissetManuela de FreitasBárbara VieiraVanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsHelder MendesAdelaide de SousaMiguel C.Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero) is an action/comedy about 25 year old lovable loser Alex who, when his life hits rock bottom and decides to end it all, shares his dogs euthanasia poison just moments before a dramatic turn of events sends him hilariously and desperately seeking the antidote which he must find within 4 hours or die.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsDiogo DóriaMiguel GuilhermeMariana DiasJoão and Jorge Queiroz. Pedro and Francisco Tropa. Four major contemporary Portuguese artists. Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture. I filmed them working and creating their works. Friends, accomplices and different, but all of them obsessed by this weird adventure of producing art in this hectic beginning of the 21st century.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsHenrique VianaJúlia BrittonEunice MuñozA film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
- DirectorAntonio SequeiraStarsBeatriz Pinto da SilvaPedro FariaPedro FerreiraSix reckless and troubled teenagers are forced to spend their weekends together in a Vacation House. Because of their internal problems and difficulties dealing with their feelings, since all of them have lost people in their families, they are constantly in conflict with each other. With the goal of improving their relationships, they are sent to a vacation house for one weekend. However, there is something very strange with the house. In the first night, when they decide to tell horror stories, something unexpected happens, because these become reality and they start to die in the same way of the characters in their horror stories. To survive, they need to remain together, while they realize that the truth hidden in the house is way darker and scary than what they could have ever imagined.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsIlidio Rocha SilvestreElsa Bea-FlorJoão MoçoIn a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Unfortunately they belong to two different fisher castes and the community as well as their respective families condemn their love...
- DirectorJorge QueirogaStarsNicolau BreynerRuben SilvaSofia GriloNine-year-old Paulo stumbles upon a photograph of Miguel, the grandfather he never met, sets out to track him down and eventually meets him, at which point the magic begins.
- DirectorAntónio FerreiraStarsCustódia GallegoAntónio CapeloAmélia CorôaA tragic-comedy over a dysfunctional Portuguese family. The story of six people who love, hate, split up and meet again - Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician; Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy; Joana, the daughter and her boyfriend, almost famous and the grandfather Tobias, a shepherd, almost immortal. Six characters, six stories, one film: Forget Everything I've Told You.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsInês de MedeirosIsabel de CastroBruno LeiteA story of initiation and struggle with adulthood: on vacation at the inn of an aunt by the sea, Miguel meets Luísa, fisherman João and Dr. Fernando, three characters that will mark the entrance of his first "stone in his pocket.
- DirectorFernando VendrellStarsFilipe CarvalhoAlexandra AntunesAmaral MatosRui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. Unfortunately, he will soon have to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African - which suddenly seem irreconcilable. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood.
- DirectorJoão Mário GriloStarsJosé VianaAdelaide JoãoZita DuarteIn the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter...
- DirectorRicardo BernardinoStarsBruna LadeiraNina SilvaSusana AlmeidaA young woman decides to spend her summer holidays in a countryside village in Portugal but begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences leading her to a fight for survival.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsHanna SchygullaRüdiger VoglerChristian PateyImages and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
- 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.
- DirectorMargarida CordeiroAntónio ReisStarsAna Maria Martins GuerraManuel Ramalho EanesOctávio Lixa FilgueirasIt is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke's poets with a local narrative.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsBarbara LaageRogério PauloMário PereiraSet in a little remote village, where everyone is very religious and primitive, "O Crime de Aldeia Velha" (The crime of Aldeia Velha) tells the story of Joana, the most beautiful girl in village. She is badly regarded by all other women because they envy her and her affairs with men. As soon as accidents start happening involving her (at some point, she holds an already sick baby and he eventually dies), the women (and slowly, men too) in the village start claiming that she is possessed by the devil. At first,she doesn't believe it. They ask for two priests to exorcise her, but they leave and say to the people that she isn't possessed at all, and that people need to relax. But, little by little, they start convincing Joana that she is really possessed and she starts entering a stage of slight madness and behaving like she is. So, people "believing" that she isn't going to die, and that the demon will leave her body, with her permission, they end up burning her alive...