Raquel Maria

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A Princesa das Ilhas Negras
1
Adaptation of a Portuguese traditional tale. A travelling man rests at a inn. While sleeping, three beautiful women tell him where to go, the black islands, where he can find them and marry the one that is a princess.
Drama
Um Tiro no Escuro
5.6

Um Tiro no Escuro

Mar 17, 2005
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Action
Rosa Negra
5

Rosa Negra

Jun 25, 1993
Fernanda, 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
A Sombra dos Abutres
6.2

A Sombra dos Abutres

Apr 23, 1998
Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Drama
Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
7
Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.
Drama
A Maldição do Marialva
2
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.
Horror
Silvestre
6.1

Silvestre

May 06, 1982
Fin du Moyen Âge au Portugal. Dom Rodrigo décide de marier une de ses filles à un riche voisin. Le vieux seigneur se rend à la cour pour convier en personne le roi aux noces. Mais en son absence, sa fille Silvia s’engage dans l’armée sous le nom de Silvestre.
History
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
1
The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren’t included on the show.
Comedy
Mal
5

Mal

Feb 25, 2000

Mal

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
Drama
Terra Fria
2.5

Terra Fria

Jun 22, 1992
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
Drama