Henrique Viana
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Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
Jan 01, 1991
Tempos Difíceis
Aug 29, 1988A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Drama
Souvenirs de la maison jaune
Oct 12, 1989Lisbonne, 1989. Jean De Dieu est un quinquagénaire qui languit dans une vieille pension de famille. Maladif, épicurien et obsédé par les femmes, il trompe l’ennui de sa misérable vie en observant à la dérobée la fille de sa logeuse.
Comedy
Julgamento
Oct 11, 2007In 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 murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.
Drama
Amor de Perdição
Nov 25, 1979A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Romance
Um Adeus Português
Apr 16, 1986In 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.
Drama
Aqui Na Terra
Sep 09, 1993Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a great deal, and that make it impossible for him to bear human society. His wife (Jessica Weiss) is thoroughly put out by this radically changed behavior in her formerly good husband, but though she considers leaving him, she stays by his side. Deep in the mountains, Cecelia (Rita Dias), a devout, pure young cowherd, has been brutally raped by an old man. Her boyfriend (Pedro Hestnes) has killed the rapist, and fled the area. As a result of the rape, Cecelia is pregnant. One day, while driving in the mountains, Miguel gives Cecelia's boyfriend a ride. The two of them chance upon her sitting amid the rocks with her infant baby.
Drama
Rosa Negra
Jun 25, 1993Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...
Drama
Duma Vez Por Todas
May 07, 1987Lisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance.
Drama
Sinais de Fogo
Nov 03, 1995The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
Drama
Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul
Jun 06, 1988A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.
Drama
A Bomba
Jan 04, 2002A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.
Action
Balada da Praia dos Cães
Mar 12, 1987In 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.
Crime
Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Jan 31, 1986Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.
Drama
Sem Sombra de Pecado
Feb 11, 1983A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.
Drama
Requiem para um Narciso
Jan 01, 1992Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara.
Drama
Aqui Há Fantasmas
Jun 06, 1964Professor Hermes conducts a research on fear, for which he passes contract with a patient to live a supposedly empty mansion. He's counting on his assistant Chico Mota to play a phantom, but soon comes about that there are phantoms (plural) in there.
Comedy
Nuvem
Jan 24, 1992Tomás is a young teenager who fights for the leadership of a small marginal group. One night, in the world that he cannot control, his fallout leads to the death of one of the group's members. Laura, the possible witness to the crime, becomes a threat.
Thriller
A Fuga
Sep 09, 1978In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.
Drama
Capitaine d'avril
Apr 21, 2000Au Portugal, dans la nuit du 24 au 25 avril 1974, la radio diffuse une chanson interdite : Grândola. Il pourrait s'agir de l'insoumission d'un journaliste rebelle. C'est en fait le signal programmé d'un coup d'État militaire qui changera la face de ce petit pays affligé par des décennies d'archaïsme et le destin d'immenses territoires en Afrique. Au son de la voix du poète José Alfonso, les troupes insurgées prennent les casernes. À 3 heures du matin, elles marchent sur Lisbonne. Peu après le triste putsch militaire au Chili, la Révolution des Œillets se distingue par le caractère aventureux, mais aussi pacifique et lyrique de son déroulement. Ces 24 heures de révolution sont vécues par trois personnages : deux capitaines et une jeune femme, professeur de lettres et journaliste.
Drama
Le Sang
Dec 07, 1989Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Drama
A Falha
Oct 24, 2002Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.
Drama
Longe da Vista
Apr 02, 1999In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
Drama
451 Forte
Jan 01, 2000Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is aware of Laura's relationship with her husband and constantly threatens them to tell Armando everything. Laura and Armando have a daughter - Sónia - whose greatest defect is greediness and the highest quality to cover up her mother's romance with her uncle. The fear of the two lovers increases and events precipitate when they receive the news that Armando is about to go on parole ...
Drama
O Fim do Mundo
Jun 10, 1993In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..
Drama
A Santa Aliança
Mar 19, 1980In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Jan 15, 1993Macau 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.
Drama
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Sep 12, 2003One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
Drama
No Dia dos Meus Anos
Aug 21, 1992This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
Drama
A Vida É Bela?!
Feb 19, 1982Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Comedy
O Anjo da Guarda
Jan 01, 1998Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Drama
Eternidade
Mar 05, 1992
O Lampião da Estrela
May 30, 2000When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.
Comedy
Adeus Princesa
May 01, 1992Mitó lives in a small village and is the son 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 hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9
Drama
Antes a Sorte Que Tal Morte
Sep 17, 1981Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary.
O Destino Marca a Hora
Feb 11, 1970A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
Drama
Um Crime de Luxo
Apr 19, 1991Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15:30 to Lisbon a coming emigrant from France with a five year old daughter in her arms and attacks Pontius in his stronghold, demanding recognition of the daughter of sin, Libertina that he had made her "bidonville» on the city of light. Bernarda hires a private detective to obtain evidence of Pontius's adultery with a curvaceous blonde, whose dream was to own butchers, fishmongers and vegetable places in a shopping center. Pontius who all deceived and this triangle (not Bermuda), weaves the web and bore's the head of the entrepreneur. A perfect luxury crime puts the police overtime. Time passes and only after the Seventh Day Mass is brought to light when the sky was given the eclipse of the moon ...
Comedy
Elles
Oct 17, 1997Linda, Eva, Chloé, Branca et Barbara, cinq amies de longue date, affrontent ensemble les difficultés de la quarantaine.
Drama
O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.
Documentary
O Querido Lilás
Nov 13, 1987Beladona was the greatest star, or so she thought. Careless of her rural property, she lived by night countless adventures. From one such nights in the arms of a stage and movie producer, she begot her dear Lilás. Alas, six minutes after birth, the boy was taken from her and declared dead - due to the intrigue of the producer, who didn't want to recognize the child as his. Taken into custody by a surrogate mother, twenty years after the child grew into a man, who starts his education in the very fado (folk song, also meaning destiny) tavern where his real mother is. Beladona is still an attractive woman - and drama is round the corner.
Comedy
Malteses, Burgueses e às Vezes...
Apr 11, 1974Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...
A Maluquinha de Arroios
Sep 23, 1970Comedy
Amok
Oct 09, 1993Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Asia. In this drama, based on a story by Stefan Zweig, Dr. Steiner (Andrzej Seweryn) was caught with his fingers in the till at a German hospital. Rather than prosecute him, they gave him the option of emigrating elsewhere. He chose to serve at a clinic in a remote part of Portuguese Goa. He has been on his best behavior for years, but when the beautiful wife (Fanny Ardant) of a diplomat comes to him asking for an abortion, he is tempted to ask for sexual favors in return, and his life swiftly goes out of control.
Drama
Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo
Sep 23, 1995
Zona+
Sep 19, 1994Talk
Chuva na Areia
Jan 07, 1985
Conde de Abranhos
Oct 03, 2000Drama
Amor de Perdição
Dec 24, 1978A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Drama
Maré Alta
Jan 09, 2005
Camilo na Prisão
Aug 23, 1998Comedy
Todo o Tempo do Mundo
May 01, 1999
A Raia dos Medos
May 05, 2000Drama
Os Lobos
Nov 09, 1998Soap
O Mandarim
Nov 09, 1991Comedy
Vidas de Sal
Apr 04, 1997Soap
Terra Instável
Jan 26, 1991Drama
Pensão Estrela
Jan 18, 1997Comedy
A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Oct 04, 1996Comedy
A Lenda da Garça
Apr 07, 2000Soap
O Processo dos Távoras
Dec 24, 2002Crime
O Prédio do Vasco
Apr 22, 2004Comedy
Polícias
Jan 23, 1997Drama
Os Imparáveis
Jan 01, 1996Comedy
Sozinhos em Casa
Jun 08, 1994Comedy
Desculpem Qualquer Coisinha
Sep 23, 1994Comedy
Diário de Maria
Nov 25, 1998Drama
Queridas e Maduras
Jul 01, 1996Comedy
Esquadra de Polícia
Sep 13, 1999Drama
Ballet Rose - Vidas Proibidas
Sep 21, 1998When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Crime
Marina, Marina
Mar 19, 1993Comedy
Um Sarilho Chamado Marina
Nov 24, 1999Comedy
Uma Casa em Fanicos
Apr 16, 1999Comedy
Camilo Em Sarilhos
Mar 26, 2006Comedy
Camilo Em Sarilhos
Mar 26, 2006Comedy
Desencontros
Sep 01, 1995Soap
Café da Esquina
Jan 04, 2001Comedy
Até Amanhã, Camaradas
Jan 29, 2005Drama
Clubíssimo
May 07, 1988Comedy
Quando os Lobos Uivam
Jun 23, 2006Drama
