portugal
Director: Marcelo Gomes
Stars: Kika Sena, Patricia Dawson, Samya De Lavor
Paloma a farm worker wants a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. The local priest refuses her request. But Paloma a transgender woman will fight back for her...
Director: Carlos Conceição
Stars: João Arrais, Anabela Moreira, Gustavo Sumpta
In 1974 after years of liberation war the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path...
Director: Christophe Honoré
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes
When his father dies a young man is introduced by his attractive amoral mother to a world of hedonism and...
Director: Renée Nader Messora, João Salaviza
Stars: Henrique Ihjãc Krahô, Raene Kôtô Krahô, Douglas Tiepre Krahô
Drama about a boy who denies the call of his culture to become a shaman when he hears his dead fathers voice asking him to celebrate the funerary feast so his spirit can depart to the village of the...
Director: Céline Devaux
Stars: Blanche Gardin, Laurent Lafitte, Maxence Tual
Jeanne is headed to Lisbon with plans to clear her debt by putting her mothers apartment for sale. At the airport she bumps into Jean a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school...
Director: José Miguel Ribeiro
Stars: Catarina André, Vitória Adelino Dias Soares, Elisângela Rita
Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena the grandmother Nayola the daughter and Yara the granddaughter. Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height...
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes
Stars: Clara Riedenstein, Marcello Urgeghe, Ingrid Caven
His home is war. Her home is Portugal. Yet the young newly married wife of Lord von Ketten is determined to make her husbands family abode an inhospitable castle on a cliff in northern Italy into her...
Director: João Nicolau
Stars: Miguel Lobo Antunes, LuÃsa Cruz, Américo Silva
Retirement is coming soon for LuÃs Rovisco. The songs he dreams up during the day make up for all the injustices in his life. But standing before the receptionist Lucinda he finds himself singing to a different...
Director: Jesús Franco
Stars: Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen secret agents are sent in to get the mineral...
Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Natalia Chakhovskaia
A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet...
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes
Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love lust crime and...
Director: IlÃdio Marques
Stars: Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, Miguel Pedro, António Rafael
After 25 years on the edition of Mutantes S.21 Mão Morta returned to Theatro Circo in their native Braga for a celebration of the iconic album in the bands history and Portuguese music which at the time provided the group...
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória
A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside...
Director: André Klotzel
Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Marcos Caruso, Petrônio Gontijo
Free adaptation of Machado de Assiss classic. The narrator is a rich dead man who tells us about his life and times making fun of...
Director: Jesús Franco
Stars: Lina Romay, Nadine Pascal, Olivier Mathot
Two strippers are released from prison to work undercover for the U.S....
Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Vanda Duarte, Lena Duarte, Zita Duarte
The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte a heroin addict in Lisbon and the community she lives...
Director: N/A
Stars: José Condessa, Helena Caldeira, Rodrigo Tomás
Four friends whose lives changed forever with the arrival of a ton of...
Director: Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas
Stars: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Two directors struggle to survive in the movie...
Director: Paulo Rocha
Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda a young...
Director: Paulo Rocha
Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Isabel Ruth, Maria Barroso
After a stint in the army fighting in Angola a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law but she turns him down. Discouraged the man meets a new girlfriend...
Director: João Jardim
Stars: Tony Ramos, Drica Moraes, Thiago Justino
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas in the 19 days that preceded August 24 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos...
Director: L.J. Munkler
Stars: Jason Robards, Brian Cox, Fred Williamson
A beautiful widow is determined to uncover the facts behind her husbands...
Director: Marco Martins
Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Nuno Lopes, Kris Hitchen
Hundreds of migrants descend on the UK village of Great Yarmouth seeking work in the regions turkey processing...
Director: Marcelo Gomes
Stars: Julio Machado, Isabél Zuaa, Rômulo Braga
A partly fictional partly historical account of the life of Brazils national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier alias...
Director: Jorge Queiroga
Stars: Sérgio Moura Afonso, Marina Albuquerque, Paula Antunes, Nicolas Brites
Lúcia is a lawyer that works to help women whose the father of the relationship deny the paternity. A job she is very keen about since she doesnt know who her father...
Director: Sara Driver
Stars: Alexis Adler, Jean Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and how New York City its people and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and 80s shaped his...
Director: Paula Cons
Stars: Nerea Barros, Ana Oca, Sergio Quintana
In the early morning of January 2 1921 amid a thick fog the steam Santa Isabel with 260 emigrants bound for Buenos Aires sank off the rugged and rugged coast of the island of...
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso
The life of a young man son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and...
Director: Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Carloto Cotta, João Nunes Monteiro
Follows Crista Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines but they are not the only...
Director: Lois Patiño, MatÃas Piñeiro
Stars: Agustina Muñoz, Diana Diegues, Susana Abreu
Mother of Caliban and imprisoner of Ariel Sycorax remains offstage for the duration of The Tempest dismissed by Prospero as an evil sorceress. In this collaboration between Lois Patiño and MatÃas Piñeiro she becomes the...