Portugal Movies

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

Follows three different people and the curve balls that life throws at them. In the end they are all brought together by one common Destiny.

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of...

Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean....

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on...

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his...

In the number 46A from the Bica do Sapato Street in Santa Apolónia, is HAUS, a musical all-rounder where is created what we hear on the...

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a...

The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António...

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose...

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in...

A documentary portrait of Brazilian ballet star Marcelo Gomes.

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon...

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Thirteen year-old André lives isolated with his father in the dry region of Alentejo, helping with his water well drilling business instead of...

An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz.

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...