Movies: Portugal

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last moments of his journey and the struggle for the preservation of his legacy, trying to fulfill his last...

An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few possessions, prostitutes and people passing through who made that place a more or less prolonged residence....

A young woman opens an old family cookbook. From the pages appear miniature nuns in pop-up illustrations. The nuns come to life, jumping out of the book, and help the woman prepare convent sweets recipe for her bakery....

All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations....

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After the adoption of a very unusual pet by this girls mom, she will have to come to terms with living with a seagull named Espanhola....

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the privacy of her studio in London while she talks with humor and candor about her compulsion to produce work...

Rafael returns to his hometown after years away and finds a family immersed in tension, silence and old superstitions. His father, once authoritarian, now weakened, and his grandmother, a mystical figure in the village, represent a world where fear a...

5 Pieces of Heart is a documentary film offering 5 aspects of Guimarães, which was along Maribor one of the European Capitals of Culture in 2012....

The film follows Tarcísio Amaro, a retired miner living in the vicinity of Serra da Estrela, interweaving thoughts on the past and the present, and looking at the decline of rural life in the deserted Portuguese hinterland....

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In 1974, Chico, a beloved host of a children’s TV show at the service of a repressive authoritarian regime, is forced to make the hardest decision of his life: murder a colleague live on air, or lose the approval of his powerful father. As the camera...

St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha, the diamond that illuminates the Atlantic Pearl....

Synthesis of the first 110 years of the history of Portuguese cinema, made almost exclusively with archive material from the series of eight episodes History of Portuguese Cinema, produced by Pedro Efe in 1998, and combining excerpts from films with ...

"Thoughts on the moon, feet on the road, eyes on others": António Coimbra de Matos revolutionized psychoanalysis....

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After the death of his mother, Carlos returns to his childhood home. During a long night, Carlos is confronted with the many neighbors of his hometown, who will try to test him and lead him to madness....

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A chair enters a downward spiral of emotional crisis....

A close look at the origins and present of portuguese hip hop....