Historia de Portugal
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1. April Captains (2000)
123 min | Drama, History, War
Story 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.
Director: Maria de Medeiros | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frédéric Pierrot
Votes: 3,400
2. Life Is Beautiful (1979)
101 min | Drama
Antonio 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Ornella Muti, Otar Koberidze, Regimantas Adomaitis
Votes: 187
4. Linha Vermelha (2012)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: José Filipe Costa | Stars: João Miguel Rodrigues, Alda Virgílio, Angélika Rodrigues, Camilo Mortágua
Votes: 61
5. A Pleasure, Comrades! (2019)
105 min | Documentary, Drama
1975, 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.
Director: José Filipe Costa | Stars: José Avelino, João Azevedo, Amanda Booth, Amanda Booth
Votes: 81
6. Charles, Emperor King (2015–2016)
TV-MA | Biography, Drama, History
The 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).
Stars: Álvaro Cervantes, Alfonso Bassave, Marina Salas, Félix Gómez
Votes: 735
7. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,711 | Gross: $17.22M
8. Longwave (2013)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, History
April 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.... See full summary »
Director: Lionel Baier | Stars: Valérie Donzelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, Francisco Belard
Votes: 639
9. Letters from War (2016)
105 min | Drama
Based 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, ... See full summary »
Director: Ivo Ferreira | Stars: Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova, Ricardo Pereira, João Pedro Vaz
Votes: 798
10. The Murmuring Coast (2004)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Based on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
Director: Margarida Cardoso | Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Monica Calle, Adriano Luz
Votes: 312
11. Licínio de Azevedo: Crónicas de Moçambique (2011)
90 min | Documentary, War
Director: Margarida Cardoso
12. Aljubarrota (2008)
History
Director: Margarida Cardoso | Stars: Joana Bárcia, Adriano Luz, Rui Morisson, Nuno Nunes
Votes: 27
13. According to Pereira (1995)
104 min | Drama
Portugal 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 1,472
14. António Oliveira Salazar (2007 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Bruno Gonçalves | Star: Jaime Nogueira Pinto
15. Salazar: A Vida Privada (2009– )
History, Romance
A look into the romantic life of Portugal's dictator António de Oliveira Salazar with the French writer Christine Garnier in the summer of 1951.
Stars: Diogo Morgado, Soraia Chaves, Héléna Noguerra, Ana Padrão
Votes: 206
16. Parque Mayer (2018)
134 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Francisco Froes, Daniela Melchior, Diogo Morgado, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 511
17. The Portuguese Falcon (2015)
106 min | Action, Comedy, History
Follows Portugal's first fascist superhero: the ultra patriotic Captain Falcon!
Director: João Leitão | Stars: Gonçalo Waddington, David Chan Cordeiro, José Pinto, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 2,053
18. La batalla de los Tres Reyes (1990)
245 min | Action, Drama, History
Various battles including that of Lepanto.
Directors: Souheil Ben-Barka, Uchkun Nazarov | Stars: Massimo Ghini, Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Fernando Rey
Votes: 109
19. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 982
20. A Revolução de Maio (1937)
110 min | Drama
A man with communist beliefs falls in love with a woman with salazarian beliefs. The most well known portuguese fascist propaganda feature.
Director: António Lopes Ribeiro | Stars: Maria Clara, Emilia D'Oliveira, Alexandre de Azevedo, Luís de Campos
Votes: 42
21. Moral Order (2020)
101 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Mário Barroso | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe, João Pedro Mamede, João Arrais
Votes: 287
22. Independência ou Morte (1972)
108 min | Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Coimbra | Stars: Tarcísio Meira, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo, Rubens Ewald Filho
Votes: 237
23.
Sharpe (1993–2008)
Episode:
Sharpe's Enemy
(1994)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An 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.
Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Sean Bean, Pete Postlethwaite, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser
Votes: 2,836
24. Viriato (2019)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Drama, History
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Luís Albuquerque | Stars: Alexandre Oliveira, Margarida Sousa, Miguel Babo, Jaime Monsanto
Votes: 127
25. Ballad of dog beach (1987)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 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.
Director: José Fonseca e Costa | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau, Sergi Mateu
Votes: 229
26. Julgamento (2007)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the ... See full summary »
Director: Leonel Vieira | Stars: Júlio César, José Eduardo, Alexandra Lencastre, Carlos Santos
Votes: 243
27. The Consul of Bordeaux (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.
Directors: João Correa, Francisco Manso | Stars: Vítor Norte, Carlos Paulo, João Nunes Monteiro, Leonor Seixas
Votes: 363
28. Operation Autumn (2012)
92 min | Biography, History, Thriller
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Director: Bruno de Almeida | Stars: John Ventimiglia, Diogo Dória, Nuno Lopes, Carlos Santos
Votes: 203
29. Lines of Wellington (2012)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, War
On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich
Votes: 1,570
30. Donos de Portugal (2012)
48 min | Documentary, History
Owners of Portugal is a documentary about 100 years of economic power. The film portrays the protection of the State to the families that dominated the country's economy and its strategies for conserving power.
Director: Jorge Costa | Stars: Gonçalo Amorim, Fernando Rosas, António de Oliveira Salazar, Alfredo da Silva
Votes: 57
31. Deus Pátria Autoridade (1976)
110 min | Documentary
The history of Portugal since the Republican revolution of 1910 to the revolutionary period following the military coup of April 24, 1974, recounted with a marxist perspective, using ... See full summary »
Director: Rui Simões | Stars: Rui Paulo da Cruz, José Mário Branco, Álvaro Cunhal, António de Spínola
Votes: 59
32. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977)
85 min | Documentary
Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Kramer, Philip J. Spinelli | Star: Philip J. Spinelli
Votes: 57
33. Silence (I) (2016)
R | 161 min | Drama, History
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 123,022 | Gross: $7.10M
34. Hispania, la leyenda (2010–2012)
Drama, History
A struggle of Hispanic people against the Roman pressure.
Stars: Roberto Enríquez, Juan José Ballesta, Nathalie Poza, Jesús Olmedo
Votes: 636
36. O Último Comunista (2005)
56 min | Documentary
Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005) was at the head of the Portuguese Communist Party for more than half a century. Born in a bourgeois family, he maintains himself very close to the soviet leaders, ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Vieira
38. Franco e Salazar os Irmãos Ibéricos (2004)
57 min | Documentary
Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, and Franco, the Spanish dictator, had parallel lives and supported each other, being the front men for two regimes which for decades coexisted in time and ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernanda Bizarro, Joaquim Vieira
39. O Homem que Matou Sidónio Pais (2008 TV Movie)
Biography
Director: Bruno Niel | Stars: Rita Brutt, Luís Santos, Amélia Videira
40. Humberto Delgado: Obviamente, Assassinaram-no (1995 TV Movie)
Documentary
In 1958, General Delgado was candidate to the Presidencial elections, against Salazar's will. Seven years later, he was killed by Portugal's political police, PIDE.
Director: Teresa Olga | Stars: José Mensurado, Ahmed Ben Bella, Eugénio Corte Real, Braga da Cruz
42. Aristides de Sousa Mendes - O Cônsul Injustiçado (1992 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Teresa Olga | Stars: Luís Filipe Costa, Adelino Gomes, João Paulo Guerra, Rui Pedro
Votes: 9
43. O Nosso Século (1988–1989)
30 min | Comedy, Music
Stars: Laura Soveral, Isabel Simões, Cândido Mota, Ana Paula Azevedo
44. Os Anos do Século (1978–1979)
History
Stars: Mário Soares, Camilo Mortágua, Manuel Alegre, José Cardoso Pires
45. Forbidden (1953)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger, Marvin Miller
Votes: 518
46. Fatima (2020)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, War
Three young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.
Director: Marco Pontecorvo | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Visnjic, Stephanie Gil, Alejandra Howard
Votes: 4,105
47.
Dark Matters: Twisted But True (2011–2012)
Episode:
Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
(2012)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Horror, Sci-Fi
"Doctor Lobotomy" is the grisly story of the beginning of what is today known as lobotomy - the brainchild of neurologist Egas Moniz. "Killed By Kindness" is the tragic tale of George Price... See full summary »
Director: James Tovell | Stars: Ben Addis, Justin Avoth, Lachele Carl, Sarah Finigan
Votes: 19
48. O Ego de Egas (2020 TV Movie)
83 min | Biography, Drama
The life of Dr. Egas Moniz, a renowned neurosurgeon and researcher, the film shows the advances he brought to medicine, ending with an historical Nobel Prize win.
Director: José Carlos Santos | Stars: João Lagarto, Ana Nave, João Jesus, Virgílio Castelo
Votes: 67
49. Os Grandes Portugueses (2007 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Bruno Cerveira, Paulo Narciso, José Carlos Santos | Stars: Maria Elisa Domingues, Clara Ferreira Alves, Isabel Alçada, Luis Andrade
Votes: 28
50. Mirandês - A Outra Língua (2008 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Mirandese language, an official language in Portugal since 1999, but whose story is way older than that. The language is only spoken by a few thousand people mostly in the regions of Miranda do Douro and Bragança.
Director: José Carlos Santos | Stars: Paulo Fernandes, António Bárbolo Alves, Mário Correia, Alcides Fernandes
Votes: 7
51.
Secrets d'histoire (2007– )
Episode:
La reine Amélie, une Française au Portugal
(2013)
Biography, History
About Princess Amélie of Orléans, through her marriage to Carlos I of Portugal queen consort of Portugal. She was the last queen consort of Portugal, and after monarchy was abolished in Portugal she spent her later life in exile in France.
Directors: Antoine De Meaux, David Jankowski, Dominique Leeb | Star: Stéphane Bern
52.
Estudio 1 (1965–2016)
Episode:
Corona de amor y muerte
(1967)
132 min | Drama
Director: Gustavo Pérez Puig | Stars: José Bódalo, Mara Cruz, Rafael Arcos, Ana María Vidal
53.
Air Land & Sea (2012– )
Episode:
Porto, Portugal
(2020)
History
Uncover the history of the Jewish people in Portugal's second city, Porto - from Moorish rule to the Inquisition and through the community's invitations back to Porto in the 20th and 21st ... See full summary »
Director: Jon McCandless | Star: Brad Pomerance
54.
Air Land & Sea (2012– )
Episode:
Portuguese Sefarad in the 20th and 21st Centuries
(2020)
45 min | History
Host Brad Pomerance uncovers how Portugal saved thousands of Jews during the Second World War and more than 500 years after the Expulsion and Inquisition, is now welcoming back Jews in the 21st Century.
Director: Jon McCandless | Star: Brad Pomerance
55.
Air Land & Sea (2012– )
Episode:
The Center of Portugal
(2020)
History
Meet centuries who Jews who lived, left and even lingered in four lovely towns in the Center of Portugal - Belmonte, Tomar, Trancoso and Viseu. Learn about Jewish communities that continued... See full summary »
Director: Jon McCandless | Star: Brad Pomerance
56.
Air Land & Sea (2012– )
Episode:
Alentejo and the Algarve, Portugal
(2021)
History
Uncover the history of the Jewish people in Portugal's Southern Regions of Alentejo and the Algarve, in the magnificent cities of Evora, Monsaraz and Faro. Revel in the region's wineries ... See full summary »
Director: Jon McCandless | Star: Brad Pomerance
57. The Rescuers (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
The film traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who teams up with Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian, to travel across 15 ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael King, Michael W. King | Stars: Martin Gilbert, Stephanie Nyombayire, Gustav Goldberger, Agnes Hirschi
Votes: 34
58. Aristides de Sousa Mendes: A Rebel (2008 TV Movie)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Joël Santoni | Stars: Bernard Le Coq, Nanou Garcia, Lionel Lingelser, Roger Souza
Votes: 45
59. Glória (2021)
TV-MA | 40 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, João Vidal will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history.
Stars: Miguel Nunes, Matt Rippy, Stephanie Vogt, Carolina Amaral
Votes: 5,057
60. La guérilléra (1982)
97 min | War
In Portugal, at the end of the Napoleonic epic, a colonel escorts two generals' wives, Alexandrine and Barbara.
Director: Pierre Kast | Stars: Agostina Belli, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Victoria Abril, Maurice Ronet
Votes: 39
61. Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001)
100 min | Comedy
As April 25, 1974 dawns, 25-year-old Marco, an Italian, and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. They are bound for Lisbon, which on that night was freed from ... See full summary »
Director: Maurizio Sciarra | Stars: Andoni Gracia, Georges Moustaki, Adriano Giannini, Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Votes: 243
62. Viagem a Portugal (2011)
Not Rated | 75 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year in with her husband, also a doctor. She is approached by agents of the Immigration Services that take her to an interrogation ... See full summary »
Director: Sérgio Tréfaut | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Isabel Ruth, Makena Diop, Rebeca Close
Votes: 174
63. Au Revoir, Portugal! (2009)
Documentary
Au Revoir, Portugal! is a five-part documentary series, which depicts the Portuguese emigration to France in the decades of 50/60/70. During this period around two million Portuguese left ... See full synopsis »
Director: Carlos Alberto Gomes
64. O Silêncio (2012)
70 min | Documentary, History
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) put an end to the Republican government supported in Parliament by liberal Republicans, communists, and socialists. The conservative winners started a ... See full summary »
Directors: António Loja Neves, José Manuel Alves Pereira | Stars: António Fontes, Arlindo Espírito Santo
65. War (2020)
105 min | Drama
The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk ... See full summary »
Directors: José Oliveira, Marta Ramos, Mariana Parasense | Stars: Ana Alexandre, Luís Barbosa, Fernando Castro, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 31
66. Khorfakkan (2020)
107 min | History
In the beginning of 1500's, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom.
Directors: Ben Mole, Maurice Sweeney | Stars: Rashid Assaf, Qays Sheikh Najib, Ahmed Al Jasmi, Khalifa Albahri
Votes: 166
67. Natureza Morta (2005)
72 min | Documentary
Within an image, another one is always hiding. Using only archive footage and without words, Still Life aims to rediscover and delve into the opacity of images made during the 48 years (... See full summary »
Director: Susana de Sousa Dias
Votes: 35
68. Luz Obscura (2017)
76 min | Documentary
How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having ... See full summary »
Director: Susana de Sousa Dias
Votes: 48
69. O Dia do Regicídio (2008)
50 min | Drama, History
1st February 1908, the King Carlos I of Portugal was shot upon his return to Lisboa, but what lies underneath this violent fact?
Stars: Adriano Luz, Afonso Pimentel, Ricardo Aibéo, Pedro Wallenstein
Votes: 47
71. Portugal Culto e Oculto (2019– )
27 min | Documentary, History
Visiting historical places and people linked with philosophical, mystical, and symbolic associations.
Stars: Rita Saldanha, João Rodil, Miguel Ferraz Araújo, Lopes Pereira
72. O Tenente (2010)
12 min | Short, Drama
Lisbon, 1910. Two days before the revolution, on October 3rd, Pedro Mello decides to eliminate the main candidate to President of the first Republic of Portugal.
Director: Rafael Antunes | Stars: Adriano Carvalho, João Perry, Rui Mendes, Rui Luís Brás
Votes: 21
73. Os Dois Proscritos ou a Restauração de Portugal em 1640 (1909)
32 min | Short
Director: Joseph Arnaud | Stars: Aurélia Delorme, Helena Cavallier, Domingos Braga, Eduardo Pereira
74. Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Adventure, Horror
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Susan Hemingway, William Berger, Herbert Fux, Ana Zanatti
Votes: 1,252
75. The Exquisite Cadaver (1969)
R | 108 min | Crime, Thriller
A grumpy publisher receives a parcel containing a hand that may or may not be fake. A woman is following him. Someone from his past? Reality and fantasy begin to intermingle.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Capucine, Carlos Estrada, Teresa Gimpera, Judy Matheson
Votes: 222
76. Letters of a Portuguese Nun (2014)
75 min | Drama, History, Romance
An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno François-Boucher | Stars: Ségolène Point, Nicolas Herman
Votes: 41
77. Sambizanga (1972)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Elisa Andrade, Domingos de Oliveira, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino
Votes: 774
78. Sinais de Fogo (1995)
Drama, Romance
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
Director: Luís Filipe Rocha | Stars: Diogo Infante, Ruth Gabriel, Marcantonio Del Carlo, José Airosa
Votes: 80
79. Virgin Margarida (2012)
90 min | Drama
1975, Mozambique's rebirth as an independent nation. The young revolution sweeps the streets of Maputo clean of prostitutes and bad habits. The prostitutes are sent to re-education camps ... See full summary »
Director: Licínio Azevedo | Stars: Iva Mugalela, Hermelinda Cimela, Sumeia Maculuva, Rosa Mario
Votes: 112
81. Des fusils pour Banta (1970)
85 min
The role of women in the struggle to liberate black Angola from its white Portuguese colonialist rulers.
Director: Sarah Maldoror
82. Monangambé (1968)
16 min | Short
Abuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Carlos Pestana, Noureddine Dreis, Mohamed Zinet, Athmane Sabi
Votes: 75
83. Malteses, burgueses e às vezes... (1974)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Director: Artur Semedo | Stars: Artur Semedo, Pedro Pinheiro, Jerónimo Ramos, Yola
Votes: 20
84. The Battle of Tabato (2013)
78 min | Drama
Director: João Viana | Stars: Mamadu Baio, Fatu Djebaté, Imutar Djebaté
Votes: 101
85. Um Adeus Português (1985)
85 min | Drama
In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace.
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Isabel de Castro, Ruy Furtado, Maria Cabral, Fernando Heitor
Votes: 127
86. A Culpa (1980)
120 min | Drama, War
Portugal, 1973. Mario, a former war fighter from Guinea, intends to return to his hometown. It brings with it a vague sense of guilt, in the death of two men - a soldier and a native - by ... See full summary »
Director: António Vitorino D'Almeida | Stars: Sinde Filipe, Estrela Novais, Mário Viegas, Marília Gama
Votes: 11
87. The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir (1976)
91 min | Drama
Through the decadence of a once noble and rich family, unable to plan the future of their members and the application of their resources, one can see the decadence of the Portuguese empire,... See full summary »
Director: José Fonseca e Costa | Stars: António Beringela, Ana Zanatti, Sérgio Godinho, Fernando Loureiro
Votes: 36
88. Deixem-me ao Menos Subir às Palmeiras (1974)
71 min | Drama
Rape by an African foreman leads to the the mounting revolt of the labour force in an African colony. While some are forced to accept their condition of slaves, others prepare themselves to fight back at the armed repression.
Director: Lopes Barbosa | Stars: Estevão Macunguel, Maklin Comiche, Gabriel Chiau, Helena Ubisse
Votes: 17
89. Adeus Até ao Meu Regresso: Soldados do Império (2007 TV Movie)
85 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The Portuguese Colonial War officially ended in 1974, a dark period in the Portuguese History. Explosions, blood, screams, nightmares and the silence, signs of a passed not yet forgotten. ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo César Fajardo | Stars: Júlio de Oliveira Simões, Licínio Espirito Santo dos Santos, Ricardo Aniceto, Dinis Coelho de Almeida
Votes: 29
90. Anos de Guerra - Guiné 1963-1974 (2000)
57 min | Documentary, War
The colonial war. Remember the past, register in the present, thinking about the future.
Director: José Barahona
91. Vinte E Nove Irmãos (1965)
92 min | Drama
Returning from Angola, having fought in the Portugues Colonial War, Ilídio dreams of returning to his fiancée, Maria. But Maria believes that she is a woman of the church and doesn't want to marry him anymore.
Director: Augusto Fraga | Stars: Carmen Mendes, Maria Bastos, Maria Cristina, Dario de Barros
Votes: 20
92. Nova Amsterdam (2016)
100 min | History
A fascinating and tragic love story that unfolds during the Dutch invasion to the Northeast coast of Brazil. The scenario is the coastline of Rio Grande do Norte. The action starts in 1633 ... See full summary »
Director: Edson Soares do Nascimento | Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, André Di Mauro, Joana Fomm, Nara Kelly
93. Guerras do Brasil.doc (2018–2019)
Documentary, Crime, History
This documentary series details how Brazil was shaped by centuries of armed conflict, from its early conquerors to its modern-day violence.
Votes: 198
94. Chaimite (1952)
157 min | Biography, Drama, History
From the military planning to front-line operations of discover conquest of Mozambique by the Portuguese, to counter the Vatuas insurgency of 1894, when they were led by Gungunhana, a ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Brum do Canto | Stars: Artur Semedo, Lourdes Norberto, Maria Emília Vilas, Julieta Castelo
Votes: 47
95. Off the Boat: The Portuguese Americans of California (2006)
30 min | Documentary, Short
The Portuguese in California are a thriving community with a compelling story that is an integral part of the history of this state. Attracted by the Gold Rush, the Portuguese (mainly from ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Proenca
96. Francisca (1981)
166 min | Biography, Drama
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás
Votes: 609
97. Passagem por Lisboa (1994)
105 min | Drama, History
Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Geada | Stars: Anthony Story, Margarida Reis, Jennifer L. Hamilton, Tom Hardy
Votes: 30
98. Batalha dos Guararapes (1978)
156 min | Drama, History
Main political and economic events involving two battles between Dutch and Portuguese-Brazilians in 1648 and 1649 for the newly discovered domain of northeastern Brazil.
Director: Paulo Thiago | Stars: José Wilker, Renée de Vielmond, Jardel Filho, Joel Barcellos
Votes: 47
99. Maluda (2021 TV Movie)
73 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
TV film inspired by the biography of the Portuguese painter - Maluda - who found in Lisbon the stage of her art.
Director: Jorge Paixão da Costa | Stars: Margarida Moreira, Filipa Louceiro, Mafalda Luís de Castro, Eduardo Breda
Votes: 63
100. República (2010)
60 min | Drama
A history series about the first Portuguese republic between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May coup d'état of 1926.
Stars: Helena Costa, Pedro Lamares, Joaquim de Almeida, Ana Nave
Votes: 51
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