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The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.

Lisboa, Portugal, 1927. El escritor y periodista Fernando Pessoa acepta de su jefe el encargo de crear un eslogan publicitario para la bebida Coca-Louca; pero las conservadoras autoridades del Gobierno consideran la nueva bebida tan revolucionaria como diabólica.

Lisboa, Portugal, 1927. El escritor y periodista Fernando Pessoa acepta de su jefe el encargo de crear un eslogan publicitario para la bebida Coca-Louca; pero las conservadoras autoridades del Gobierno consideran la nueva bebida tan revolucionaria como diabólica.

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow (played by Maria de Medeiros), prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called ‘Hovering Over the Water’.

It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want to be happy. Pablo, the companion she selected from among the many who answered her questionnaire, helps her through the sleepless nights. He has no family, but wishes he had. Vera concerns herself with the mysteries surrounding Pablo's life. Vera is not afraid of the night; she is not afraid of anything.

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.

Una joven actriz portuguesa habla Portugués perfectamente a pesar de nunca haber estado en el país. Llega a Lisboa por primera vez justo antes de que se empezara a filmar una película.

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous

Martin Frost (David Thewlis) es un exitoso novelista americano que acaba de publicar su última obra. Martin dedide descansar mentalmente en una pequeña casa de campo a las afuera de Nueva York. Al amanecer del primer día, descubre asombrado que una misteriosa y deslumbrante mujer (Irène Jacob) yace en la cama a su lado. Fascinando por su belleza, Martin cae hechizado. Ha encontrado su musa que le ayude a escribir su obra perfecta...

Cuando su hijo Mathieu muere en un accidente de coche, Camille (Catherine Deneuve) siente que su mundo se hunde. La única persona en la que logra encontrar consuelo es Franck, el mejor amigo de su hijo y el responsable de su muerte. Ni su marido ni su hija le sirven de apoyo; sólo Franck, atormentado por la culpa, parece entender y compartir su dolor. Pero el interés de Camille por el chico se convierte pronto en algo obsesivo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

Historia sobre el Rey Sebastián I de Portugal (el que originó el mito del sebastianismo), un rey obsesionado con reemprender las gestas bélicas de los antiguos reyes de Portugal a pesar de que su reino está empobrecido. La historia se basa en una novela de José Regio.

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.

Antoine llega a Tánger con la misión de supervisar la instalación de un centro audivisual. Sin embargo, lo que desea en realidad es encontrar allí a Cécile, la mujer de la que está enamorado desde hace treinta años

Rosa María, una profesora de Historia de la Universidad de Lisboa, emprende con su hija María Joana un crucero por el Mediterráneo que las llevará desde Pompeya a Atenas, pasando por Estambul y Egipto. Al final, debe reunirse con su marido en Bombay, desde donde saldrán de vacaciones. Descubre así parajes que sólo conocía a través de los libros. Durante el crucero, conoce a tres mujeres y a un hombre que le producen una profunda impresión: una prestigiosa empresaria francesa, una famosa modelo italiana ya retirada, una actriz y profesora de canto griega y un americano de origen polaco, que es el capitán del barco. Las cuatro cenan con el capitán, y cada una habla en su lengua materna, aunque todos comprenden lo que quiere decir; se reproduce así una Torre de Babel idílica. Sin embargo, cuando se dirigen hacia el Golfo Pérsico, ocurre algo que perturbará la cena.

Samy, a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia his cousin, a pregnant widow; and Qu'Issam another cousin, who was expelled from France, and hates everything French. Samy's grandfather lives in the memory of a piece of land that no longer produces any wealth. Samy will never give the reason for his presence, but the chaotic climate of the country will revive the chaos that is in him.

Aunque Antonio pertenece a una rica familia y José es hijo de la sirvienta, han compartido su infancia bajo la protectora mirada de la criada, atenta a sus mínimos gestos. Con el paso de los años el amor estrechará los lazos entre ellos dos: Antonio se casa con Camila, de la cual José siempre ha estado enamorado, y tiene por amante a la peligrosa Vanessa, socia de José en oscuros e inconfesables negocios. El diablo interviene y se burla cruelmente de la criada que siempre ha intentado en vano conjurar la mala suerte. La trama de estos cuatro destinos entrecruzados pasará por las llamas del infierno.

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.

Un camionero francés que viaja periódicamente a África, transportando sobre todo productos textiles, decide incrementar sus ingresos traficando con hachís. Sarah, su amante marroquí, desea ir a Canadá con su hermano. Su amigo Saïd lo que pretende es llegar a Europa cruzando el estrecho de Gibraltar. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un camionero francés que viaja periódicamente a África, transportando sobre todo productos textiles, decide incrementar sus ingresos traficando con hachís. Sarah, su amante marroquí, desea ir a Canadá con su hermano. Su amigo Saïd lo que pretende es llegar a Europa cruzando el estrecho de Gibraltar. (FILMAFFINITY)

'Mal' reúne varias historias: la de Pedro y Cathy, separados por todo pero unidos por un inmenso amor; la de la constante angustia del joven delincuente Daniel y su búsqueda de un lugar bajo las estrellas; la historia de un abuelo que llega a Lisboa a buscar a su nieta; y la de los Cruz, que viven juntos por necesidad. Según Alberto Seixas Santos, "'es un mosaico narrativo en el que temas cotidianos de vidas separadas se encuentran".

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made up with Claire, he decides to take her along. She's an ideal travel companion and it seems their relationship has not yet exhausted its potential. But moving from Lisbon to Oporto, their fantasy of a second honeymoon clashes with the reality of a world on the verge of a nightmare.

A los veinte años, Martin abandona su casa y se va a París, donde tiene la suerte de convertirse en modelo. Entre él y Alice, la hermana de un amigo, surge una apasionada relación. Sin embargo, Martin mantiene una actitud de reserva total con respecto a su pasado y a las razones que lo impulsaron a abandonar a su familia. Cuando Alice le comunica su embarazo, el pasado vuelve a dominar y a trastornar su mente.

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, she becomes involved with several other men, while listening to advice from some older French women who are costume designers. Shown at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival.

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 father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.

En mitad de la noche un grito desgarrador despierta a Justin, un niño de diez años: es su madre que llora la inesperada muerte de su marido. Los demás tratarán de ocultarle la verdad sobre las actividades de su padre, sobre el policía Alex, sobre Marie, la profesora de Filosofía, sobre Juliette y sobre su hermano Jimmy.

This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious attraction between Leonor and Michel prompts them to head for a private beach (their tryst, if there was one, occurs off-camera). Five years later, the foursome again meet for a garden party and once again they pair off after spending much time discussing gender differences, emotion, social insight and exchanging witty bon mots.

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.

Es un homenaje de Wim Wender a Lisboa y al cine. Un ingeniero de sonido recibe una postal de un amigo que, en ese momento, está rodando una película en Lisboa. Deberá atravesar Europa para encontrarlo y prestarle ayuda.

Ema es una mujer de una belleza desafiante, y no sólo para Carlos, su marido, con quien se casó sin amor. Su gusto por el lujo y lo refinado, las ilusiones que tiene por la vida, el deseo que inspira a los hombres... todo ello le hace valedora del sobrenombre "La pequeña Bavary".

Ema es una mujer de una belleza desafiante, y no sólo para Carlos, su marido, con quien se casó sin amor. Su gusto por el lujo y lo refinado, las ilusiones que tiene por la vida, el deseo que inspira a los hombres... todo ello le hace valedora del sobrenombre "La pequeña Bavary".

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

En una "Casa de Enajenados", se entrecruzan personajes perseguidos por ideas obsesivas como personas alucinadas. Cada cual a su manera tomándose unos por figuras bíblicas, tales como: los Fariseos, Adán, Eva, Jesús, Lázaro, Marta y María, otros como personajes de romance, como Raskolnikov y Sónia de “Crimen y Castigo”, o Ivan y Aliocha de los “Hermanos Karamazov”; otro que encarna al Filósofo del “Anti-Cristo”, y otro que se cree personificar al Profeta de la “Salvación del Mundo”.

1999. Mientras conduce, una mujer (Dommartin) choca con el coche de unos delincuentes que acaban de atracar un banco y que la obligan a colaborar con ellos en el traslado del dinero a un lugar de París. En el trayecto, conoce a Sam (Hurt), un fugitivo perseguido por la CIA, que le explica que los delitos que le imputan son falsos y que lo que, en realidad, quieren es arrebatarle un invento de su padre que permite revisar los sueños.

Episodes 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.

Maria 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.

At 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. Portugal's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.

Una joven que trabaja como vendedora en el negocio de música de un centro comercial, quiere alguien con quien compartir sus secretos. No puede ser su madre, distante a causa de su inminente separación; tampoco su hermana preadolescente, ni su tía, que emigró a Francia. Ni siquiera su novio. Hasta que un día, la persona que espera Rita llega inesperadamente a su vida. Pero también aparece otro muchacho, y ya sabemos: tres son multitud. Alguien debe partir. (FILMAFFINITY)

Una joven que trabaja como vendedora en el negocio de música de un centro comercial, quiere alguien con quien compartir sus secretos. No puede ser su madre, distante a causa de su inminente separación; tampoco su hermana preadolescente, ni su tía, que emigró a Francia. Ni siquiera su novio. Hasta que un día, la persona que espera Rita llega inesperadamente a su vida. Pero también aparece otro muchacho, y ya sabemos: tres son multitud. Alguien debe partir. (FILMAFFINITY)

Jeanne viaja a Toulon, en el sur de Francia, para asistir a la boda de su hermana. De paso también verá a Alain, su hermano sordomudo. Durante la celebración conoce a Said, el mejor amigo de Alain, y a Stephanne, que acaba de salir de un coma y tiene que volver con su padre, un hombre que vive atormentado por su homosexualidad y se refugia en el alcohol. Jeanne se siente atraída por los dos. Sin embargo, no es ella el motivo por el que estalla un conflicto entre ambos. Lo que ocurre es que los dos están vinculados a ciertos acontecimientos turbios del pasado.

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. (Mubi)

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. (Mubi)

Isidore es una mujer que vive con sus padres adoptivos. Su padre espera que ella se suicide, pero por el contrario, Isidore irá conociendo a extraños personajes que la acompañarán en un viaje metafísico y criminal.

Isidore es una mujer que vive con sus padres adoptivos. Su padre espera que ella se suicide, pero por el contrario, Isidore irá conociendo a extraños personajes que la acompañarán en un viaje metafísico y criminal.

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.