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- DirectorMargarida CordeiroAntónio ReisStarsAna Maria Martins GuerraManuel Ramalho EanesOctávio Lixa FilgueirasIt is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke's poets with a local narrative.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsFernando Cabral MartinsAndré GomesJuliet BertoThe film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
- DirectorAlberto Seixas SantosStarsOtelo Saraiva de CarvalhoEduardo LourençoRobert KramerAn essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.
- 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.
- DirectorJorge Silva MeloStarsMichael KönigManuela de FreitasLuís Miguel CintraThe dates of the exhibit have been set. Bernd Hoffmann is in Lisbon, which he had already visited in 1974, when he met the young artist Hanna Brauer. The exhibit will present paintings by both artists. Bernd is waiting for Hanna, but neither she nor her paintings seem to have arrived in Portugal. And yet he knows that the woman is in Lisbon. He looks for her among his old revolutionary friends, then turns to the police for help. He discovers that Hanna is dead. A natural death? Suicide?
- DirectorEduardo GeadaStarsEstrela NovaisLuís LucasHelder CostaDona 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.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsIsabel de CastroRuy FurtadoMaria CabralIn 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.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsLaura MorantePhilip J. SpinelliManuela de FreitasLaura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrives looking for Robert.
- DirectorJoão Mário GriloStarsCarlos DanielAurelle DoazanAntonino SolmerAt the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Françoise had acquired through artfulness what Afonso had lost in anger in the kingdom. She had him imprisoned ( November 1667 ) and quickly obtained a papal bull from Rome to confirm her virginity and bless her marriage to her brother-in-law Pedro.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsBulle OgierLuís Miguel CintraAxel BogousslavskyFour versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsLuís Miguel CintraCaroline ChaniolleauYves AfonsoJoão is the spiritual heir (the term he prefers to bastard) of Manuel Brandão, his dying godfather, and at the same time the political leader of a small party of a disintegrating governmental coalition.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsLudmila MikaëlArnaud GiovaninettiJean-Pierre CasselAt the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the great regulative Governor Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsVicky de AlmeidaFilipe FerrerPedro Ayres MagalhãesLisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance.
- DirectorCristina HauserStarsMário JacquesOsório MateusJoão Perry
- DirectorVítor GonçalvesStarsIsabel GalhardoDiogo DóriaJosé Manuel MendesIsabel, a girl in her late teens, is unable to determine herself and understand herself - lost in the memory of her late mother, living with her father and sister, and discovering love with Diogo. Emptiness and somber perspectives of the future seem to encircle them, despite of moments of loud music in a nightclub or a sunny day at the beach.
- DirectorMargarida CordeiroAntónio ReisStarsAntónio Manuel BaptistaConstança CapdevilleCarlos Alberto GomesCordeiro's most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film's collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources - including Kafka and Montaigne.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsRogério SamoraTeresa MadrugaPedro EfeA 47 year old man who immigrated illegally to France, returns to his village and faces the changes that took place there, even the bride he had left is involved with another man. At that moment, and while the village prepares for a religious ceremony, he plans his revenge.
- DirectorJorge Silva MeloStarsChristian PateyOlivier CruveillerMarie CarréSummer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
- DirectorMargarida GilStarsCatarina Alves CostaAntónio Sequeira LopesJorge RollaThe young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraLeonor SilveiraDiogo DóriaA drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsHenrique VianaJúlia BrittonEunice MuñozA film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
- 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 CanijoStarsRita BlancoAnne GautierPedro HestnesA young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsInês de MedeirosIsabel de CastroBruno LeiteA story of initiation and struggle with adulthood: on vacation at the inn of an aunt by the sea, Miguel meets Luísa, fisherman João and Dr. Fernando, three characters that will mark the entrance of his first "stone in his pocket.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraDiogo DóriaMiguel GuilhermeEpisodes 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 draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
- DirectorAntónio CamposStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaCristina MarcosMaria ArmindaIn 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. His wife Ermelinda, the prettiest girl in the village, starts to work as a maid in the house of a man called Santiago, nicknamed American. His manners, charm and indirectly his wealth finally seduce her, and a child is born. To get rid of her the American gives her money and helps Leonardo close his much sough-after deal. Meanwhile the American concentrates his attention on Guida, a girl of 16 who also gets pregnant. Santiago decides to court Ermelinda again, and she kills him in a fit of rage. Ermelinda tells her husband she killed the American in self defence. Leonardo takes responsability for the crime and flees to Spain to the house of his friend Iglesias. Some time later Leonardo realises he is not the father of the child and leaves his refuge to confront Ermelinda.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsRita BlancoJosé WilkerLídia FrancoMaria is a sweet child. She hasn't father and doesn't like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsLuís Miguel CintraInês de MedeirosMaria de MedeirosLaura lives in Vouzela with her husband who is a lot older than her. When her brother Nuno visits her, he realizes that Laura does not have a happy life.
- DirectorLuís Galvão TelesStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaMaria de MedeirosPaola DominguínOfelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
- DirectorJorge Silva MeloStarsJerzy RadziwilowiczÁngela MolinaManuel WiborgOne night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
- 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.
- DirectorLeão LopesStarsMarina AlbuquerqueFernanda AlvesSimão Pedro AlvesCape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threatens the landlords. A new identity arises, a mix of old and new, of African and Portuguese culture, sensual and dynamic. The songs of Cesária Évora follow this inevitable transformation. From the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa.
- DirectorMonique RutlerStarsFernanda LapaVictor SantosAndré Gago
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsRicardo ColaresTeresa RobyJoaquim de AlmeidaThe story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsJosé Mário BrancoManuela de FreitasMiguel GonçalvesAn author writes a story entitled "O som da terra a tremer", and the story constantly entwines itself with his private life.
- 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.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsLaura MoranteSimon de La BrossePeter SattmannJorge is a disc jockey at a nightclub in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. But the owner of the nightclub, Queirós, is also involved in another less lawful but more profitable business: the diamond trade. Queirós is a cold and sophisticated man whose only weakness is an obsessive passion for a woman who has already betrayed him.
- DirectorJoaquim PintoStarsElsa BatalhaManuel WiborgLeonor SilveiraRedheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who've locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando's exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural hallucinations that can only be remedied through music and, finally, the love of a stranger.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsJoão DideletJosé RibeiroVitor Torres
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsClaude BrasseurAndréa FerréolAna PadrãoSpino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsLuís Miguel CintraJessica WeissPedro HestnesMiguel is a successful economist until his father's death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from his wife and initiates a process of physical disintegration. He will reach the bottom before he starts seeing the light. As an echo to his journey, we follow, faraway in the countryside, the story of a crime and its redemption, the story of Antonio and Cecilia. From death to the miracle of life, here on earth.
- DirectorMargarida GilStarsManuela de FreitasFernando LuísCatarina CorreiaFernanda, 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.
- DirectorAntónio da Cunha TellesStarsPhilippe LéotardFanny CottençonInês de MedeirosIt was September in Lisbon. Elsa's young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend's friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat named Pandora but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa are free to start a new life.
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsMaria de MedeirosMarcello UrgegheEvgeniy SidikhinLisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go separate ways. When Maria does need help, the three brothers will join again - but a trifle too late.
- 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.
- 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.