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- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsNuno LopesBeatriz BatardaMiguel GuilhermeIn the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsRafael MoraisJoana de VeronaBeatriz BatardaGuilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsBeatriz BatardaFilipe DuarteMonica CalleBased on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsAfonso BonitoCarmen SantosPaulo MatosA photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsRicardo TrêpaCatarina WallensteinDiogo DóriaA young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraGlicínia QuartinRuy de CarvalhoStories of various individuals living in a poor district of Lisbon are intertwined with the sad life of a blind street vendor whose only means of support is his elm box.
- 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.
- DirectorCarlos da SilvaGeorge SluizerStarsDiogo InfanteMaria d'AiresHuub StapelA Portuguese immigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in a cemetery in Amsterdam. Soon he discovers that his soul won't rest in peace until his body is laying down in his fatherland. This way he decides to go to Portugal to convince his sister to travel to Amsterdam and bring back his body. The only problem is that the only way for him to be seen or heard by the living is appearing in their dreams.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsFederico LuppiIcíar BollaínGabino DiegoAn inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsDiogo InfanteRuth GabrielMarcantonio Del CarloThe film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsMiguel MolinaAntónio CapeloLydia BoschMitó lives in a small village and is the daughter of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja, the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopeless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes.
- 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.
- DirectorVítor GonçalvesStarsFilipe DuarteJoão PerryMaria João PinhoNight falls over Lisbon. But Hugo can't go home. Antonio has died, and for some reason, he can't stop thinking about his old love, Adriana.
- StarsGonçalo WaddingtonCândido FerreiraLeonor SeixasThe underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime.
- 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.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsNuno DuarteJoão PerryLia GamaLiving in expeditions, a gang of friendly Malandro Lisboetas is one day contacted by mysterious Italian (from the Mafia, it is assumed) to steal part of the Lalique Collection, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsAna ZanattiPedro OliveiraTeresa MadrugaAlvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn't know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious sensual woman, he decides not to tell the police about the lift he gave her and investigates her by himself. He gets involved with her, but she remains too mysterious about her personal life. He ends up tangled in a web of murder, mystery and sex because of that woman, who he barely gets to know.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsMário ViegasLia GamaLuís LelloKilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the police is too busy to care. A mysterious Major - eventually from the secret police - approaches Kilas in order that his gang will set up a discreet vigilance on the house of a notorious anti-fascist person. Kilas is only happy to oblige, as he is being paid for the guys' work - until the contract is upped to place a bomb in the house. Now, that's too much even for a low pimp like Kilas! But - meanwhile he has a love dispute to settle with that house's owner; and that is a real psychological conflict that Kilas would wish not to have...
- 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.
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaAna TorrentJean-Pierre CasselMacau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsMaria de MedeirosJoaquim de AlmeidaKarra ElejaldeCatarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsDiogo InfanteCristina CâmaraHenrique VianaJacinto Pereira Lopes is manager of a major economic and financial group, which the State returned to its former owner. Jacinto is married to Rosa, a poor but ambitious woman, but never forgot Fatima, a beautiful and brilliant daughter of the family. To save your company, Fatima needs information on the activities of the head of Jacinto and no doubt rekindle the old flame. Jacinto tries to resist pressures in an atmosphere of family chaos, in which his wife encouraged him to be ambitious and cheating on him with other men. Feeling betrayed and used by everyone Jacinto decides to take matters into their own hands, starting to play with the same rules as others.
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsLeonor SeixasJoão RicardoJoão Pedro VazMariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being raped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsDiogo InfanteAntónio MeloFernanda SerranoA group of innocent hostages is left to his own death facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaNicolau BreynerAna BustorffTen men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
- DirectorNicolau BreynerStarsPedro LimaCláudia VieiraVítor NortePeter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
- DirectorJosé NascimentoStarsNuno MeloCatarina WallensteinFrancisco NascimentoJoaquim left the house of his brother. The niece supplicates runs behind him. There was a crime with unclear outlines and an escape from the house where it all happened. They sleep in abandoned houses and love each other.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSaúl FonsecaFernanda SerranoJoaquim LeitãoA woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsPaulo PiresSinde FilipeVítor NorteIn the 1940s André escapes from prison and is forced to leave the country illegally. In Oporto some friends arrange him a man, Lambaça, who knows the border of Tras-os-Montes (village in the north of Portugal) with Spain, thanks to his smuggler activity.
- 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.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsCarmen DoloresVirgilio TeixeiraMário ViegasTwo lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsBianca ByingtonCucha CarvalheiroJosé RaposoAna Catarina returns home to marry a man she doesn't know. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, which leaves her heir to a fortune and coveted by the aristocrats in the region
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsAfonso PimentelJoão LagartoLaura SoveralFor 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 sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality...
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsCarlos VerezaInês de MedeirosMário ViegasAlexandre was trapped in the solitude of his apartment when he discovered that Margarida, a beautiful and cold technocrat, had ran away with a rich American to Switzerland, and took his son Vitor with her.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsIvo CanelasEnrique ArceFlora MartínezTwo amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsIvo CanelasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraBruna Di TullioA critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
- 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 OliveiraStarsMarcello MastroianniJean-Yves GautierLeonor SilveiraManoel is an aging film director who travels with his film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France. In the process, he remembers his own youth.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsJoão César MonteiroManuela de FreitasRuy FurtadoLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
- 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.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsRita DurãoJoão César MonteiroJoana AzevedoAfter receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
- 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.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsHugues QuesterPierre ClémentiJoana AzevedoTwo actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer are also competitors in real life. One of them, Henrique, is spiritually-obsessed with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
- 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.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsClaude BrasseurAndréa FerréolAna PadrãoSpino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
- DirectorPaulo AresPedro MadeiraStarsRibeiro AntónioBartolomeuRicardo BraunShadow boxing - a technical term that, in the training of boxers, means facing an imaginary opponent, avoiding invisible blows and hitting the void. Joaquim Silveira, 38, ex-boxer, is the trainer at the Lisboa's Rio de Janeiro boxing club. In this popular neighbourhood club he coaches several amateur young boxers. Silveira is also a man of the night, working as a bouncer at a rock club in Lisbon. The tatoos on his body are like scars of a shadowy past. Boxing has given him discipline and an almost mystical commitment as a trainer.
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsEugénia BettencourtAnabela TeixeiraJean-Pierre CasselIn the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting - the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.
- 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.
- DirectorHugo Vieira da SilvaStarsNuno LopesIvo AlexandreDavid CaracolAt the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.