Arte de Roubar
Nov 06, 2008Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Action
David Almeida
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Pátio do Carrasco
Jan 25, 2023In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.
Drama
Não Sou Nada
Jan 25, 2023Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.
Drama
A Bela e o Paparazzo
Jan 28, 2010Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
Comedy
Combat d'amour en songe
Nov 22, 2000Un jeune homme au cœur pur, partisan de la liberté d'esprit, est confronté à la pression sociale qui ordonne de s'enrichir a tout prix. Un groupe d'enfants aveugles tente d'ouvrir les yeux de non-croyants à la foi chrétienne. Des religieuses transforment leur couvent en maison close pour pouvoir en payer le loyer. Ce sont tous ces paradoxes qui transforment ce conte pour enfants en une fable philosophique.
Drama
Quaresma
May 18, 2003David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.
Drama
O Coveiro
Dec 08, 2012Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.
Horror
O Quinto Império - Ontem Como Hoje
Sep 09, 2004Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
History
O Botânico no Alentejo
Oct 01, 2006
I'll See You in My Dreams
Jul 01, 2003The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he finds a second shot at true love, but this blooming romance is threatened by the situation plaguing the town.
Horror
Facas e Anjos
Mar 14, 2000In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
Drama
Les Noces de Dieu
Oct 15, 1999Le vagabond Jean de Dieu devient un riche oisif séducteur, aux perversions poétiques et raffinées.
Comedy
Tebas
Mar 01, 2007Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his origins, departs from Paris to Portugal with a beatnik truck driver. The film is a voyage into the strange depths of Portugal in the form of surreal road-movie.
Drama
O Último Condenado à Morte
May 28, 2009
Golias
Jul 03, 2010
Lavado em Lágrimas
Jan 26, 2006João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, João meets Ana, his teenage granddaughter, a mysterious character who is beginning to exercise an irresistible fascination for him.
With the time João starts to lose the interest in the pigeon breeder and begins to take an interest in Ana and her world, which she only shares with another abandoned kid, until she realizes that her life is full of dark stories.
Drama
Cinerama
Jan 25, 2010Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Drama
O Grande Circo Místico
Nov 15, 2018D’après le poème de Jorge de Lima, un siècle de la vie d’un cirque, au Brésil, à travers cinq générations d’artistes audacieux, talentueux, passionnés, magiques et décadents.
Drama
Caminhos Magnétykos
Apr 25, 2019During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Drama
Labirinto
Dec 07, 2014Director Júlio Bessa, who suffers from "stage fright" will make an introduction to his latest film at Festival de Cinema Luso Brasileiro in Santa Maria da Feira.
Fantasy
Rio Turvo
Nov 28, 2007A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the “swamp-flower”, protégée of a Socratic Director (and his goat Plato). In a world without women, she is kept safe from the temptations of the flesh by her strict and grotesque Aunt. The sound-track entirely played by the workers (fado and bossa nova singers) reveals parallel narratives of suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the pace of the unconscious leading to a confrontation between Man and River. Inspired by a hypnotic story by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974).
Drama
Sans arme, ni haine, ni violence
Apr 16, 2008Appréhendé en 1977 pour avoir conçu, organisé et réussi le célèbre casse de Nice, Albert Spaggiari s'évade du bureau du juge d'instruction. Pendant des années, il va rester insaisissable, résistant à toutes les tentatives de la police.Au cours de sa cavale fabuleuse en Amérique du Sud, il multiplie les rencontres avec des journalistes, fait des photos en forme de pied de nez facétieux au public français.Vincent, reporter, réussit à l'approcher pendant quelques jours dans une ville d'Amérique du Sud et découvre un être qui n'a rien à voir avec le grand banditisme, une sorte de Cyrano de Bergerac, généreux et fauché, souffrant de ne pas profiter davantage de sa gloire, looser grandiose, vantard plein d'humour et de contradictions mais qui reste traqué par la police française.
Crime
Ruy Blas
Oct 27, 2002Don Salluste est condamné à l’exil par la reine pour une affaire de mœurs. Décidé à se venger, il fait entrer à la cour un de ses valets, Ruy Blas, pour qu'il séduise la reine...
TV Movie
Vencidos da Vida
Oct 29, 2020
A Floresta de Jonathas
Oct 08, 2012Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The family harvests and sells local products at a roadside fruit stand, a place of contact with new friends and novelties from the rest of the world. They meet Milly, a visitor from Ukraine, and the native Kedassere. The group decides to spend the weekend at a campground in the jungle. Against his father's wishes, Jonathas will embark on this adventure. Seduced by Milly and the forest, he undertakes his most transforming journey.
Drama
88
Oct 06, 2002A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.
Action
Eclipse
Sep 14, 2002The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.
Drama
A Mãe do Senhor Ministro
Apr 28, 2013Comedy
Pai à Força
Jul 29, 2012
Sara
Nov 25, 2018Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.
Comedy
Odisseia
Mar 09, 2013A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.
Drama
Con(s)certos na Cave
Jan 30, 2000Comedy
