portugal
Director: Imanol Uribe
Stars: Iban Garate, Blanca Suárez, Karra Elejalde
Henry grows tired of witnessing injustices and he engages in risky...
Director: Miguel Gomes
Stars: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, HortêncÃlio Aquina
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbors maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in...
Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes
On September 27 1810 the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from the enemy numerically superior in order to attract them to Torres Vedras where Wellington had built fortified lines hardly surmountable. Simultaneously the...
Director: Kristjan Knigge
Stars: Mark Killeen, Miguel Damião, Lúcia Moniz
Oliver Fellows a failed city banker is pursuing fulfillment on an old farm in Southern Portugal. He and his neighbor Manel face unprincipled enemies in a highly amusing quest to save their valley from...
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Stars: Àlex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart
Set in Catalonia Painless weaves two stories: in one starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the 60s an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain by teaching them physical suffering. In the second in the present time a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant discovers this dark past when he searches for his biological...
Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Stars: Edward Hogg, Alexandra Maria Lara, Melchior Derouet
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of...
Director: Tino Navarro, David Rebordão
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Alix Wilton Regan, Dafne Fernández
In a not too far future Steve Battier a multimillionaire elderly and terminally ill accepting the offer of a company - RPG - that in return for a high monetary value provides to a very restricted group of clients the possibility to become young again. During 10 hours 10 millionaires around the world men and women with fame and power will be transferred to younger bodies attractive and...
Director: MairtÃn de Barra
Stars: Louise Dylan, Craig Daniel Adams, Michael Higgs
For Heather music is everything. Following in her mothers footsteps Heather has always dreamed about getting into Juilliard and becoming a classical pianist. But all her dreams get shattered the day her mum dies and her life suddenly falls into silence. Left with nothing but a piano and debts Heathers only option is to move in with her estranged father and half-brother. When her application...
Director: Katja Gauriloff
Stars: Lise LorenzenAndrzej Biskup, Neuci de Souza, Florentina Dumitru
Canned Dreams is a film about workers and their dreams on the journey of a canned food...
Director: Vicente Alves do Ó
Stars: Dalila Carmo, Ivo Canelas, Albano Jerónimo
Portugal 1920. Florbela Espanca a woman ahead of her time and a famous poet throws herself into a third marriage after two failed experiences... See full synopsis...
Director: Chuck Parello
Stars: Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell
The true story of Edward Gein the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Geins tormented upbringing his adored but domineering mother and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever...
Director: Joaquim Leitão
Stars: Francisco Areosa, João Baptista, Martim Barbeiro
...
Director: Bille August
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston
About an aging Swiss professor of classical languages who after a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman quits his job and travels to Lisbon in the hope of discovering the fate of a certain author a doctor and poet who fought against Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira...
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, Melvil Poupaud
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple...
Director: François Girard
Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan
As the title suggests this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bachs Goldberg Variations the recording that Gould made famous each giving us an insight into some aspect of Goulds life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing...
Director: Rodrigo Areias
Stars: VÃtor Correia, Inês Mariana Moitas, Nuno Melo
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country returns to avenge His brothers death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau he is translating Civil Disobedience into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910 between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic an era where...
Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Abdul Ayoola, Juliette Binoche, Emily Hampshire, Bob Bainborough, Samantha Morton, Zeljko Kecojevic, Jay Baruchel, Philip Nozuka, Mathieu Amalric, Patricia McKenzie, Ryan Kelly
Storyline: Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut a 28-year-old billionaire asset managers day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world...
Director: Fernando Fragata
Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Michelle Mania, Skyler Day, Scott Bailey, Joey Hagler, Evelina Pereira, Donovan Scott, Jeff Swarthout, Renee Ainsworth, James LaGrappe, Caitlin Carmichael
Storyline: Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each...