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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.
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Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
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Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
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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’.
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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.
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A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
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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.
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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.
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A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
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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
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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
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A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but as time passes she becomes more and more unattainable.
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В автомобильной катастрофе погибает сын главной героини Камиллы — Матьё. Единственным человеком, к которому она может обратиться за поддержкой, оказывается Франк, виновный в смерти Матьё. Однако вскоре интерес Камиллы к Франку перерастает в болезненное наваждение…
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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.
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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."
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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."
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A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
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A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
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Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
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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.
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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.
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Немолодой инженер Антуан Лаво приезжает в Танжер работать в большой строительной компании. Но помимо работы, в этом знаменитом марокканском городе у него есть и тайная цель: Антуан надеется отыскать красавицу Сесиль — ту единственную, которая стала любовью всей его жизни и которую он так и не смог забыть. И там, среди песков и миражей, происходит чудо: встретившиеся после тридцатилетней разлуки влюбленные очертя голову погружаются в повторный бурный роман…
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Друзья отбывают из Лиссабона на круизном корабле, направляющемся к Индийскому океану. Во время однодневных остановок в Марселе, Помпеях, Афинах, Стамбуле и Каире они наблюдают, как профессор рассказывает своей юной дочери о мифах, истории, религии и войнах. Мужчины пытаются флиртовать с ней, но она холодна, поскольку едет в Бомбей к своему мужу.
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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.
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Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
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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.
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Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...
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Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...
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Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
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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.
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Мартен - парень двадцати лет, который после смерти отца сбегает из дома и заявляется у своего сводного брата. Последний снимает квартиру на двоих с Алисой, но между ними нет отношений, так как брат - гей. У Мартена и Алисы завязываются отношения, которым мешает какая-то тайна из прошлого, которую скрывает Мартен.
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После того, как склонная к суициду девочка-подросток рожает, она ошибочно доверяет безопасность своего ребенка проблемному бездельнику отцу, чьи насильственные действия отправляют зрителя в путешествие по зловещим, разрушающимся трущобам, в которых они живут.
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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.
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Биографическая драма стареющего кинорежиссера Мануэля де Оливейры, который вместе с тремя актерами путешествует по Португалии и вспоминает свою юность. Португалия — это одновременно и конец, и начало Европы, но герои приходят именно к концу, который угрожает вымирающей деревне. Это родина французского актера Альфонсо. «Путешествие к началу мира» — это одновременно вояж к прошлому, настоящему и будущему, которые отражаются друг в друге. В конце повествования становится ясно, что режиссер и актеры готовятся к съемкам фильма, но это только верхний слой фильма-притчи.
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Вальяжный вор, скромный полицейский, обворожительная преподавательница философии и нервная девушка с суицидальными наклонностями... Казалось бы, что может объединять этих абсолютно разных людей? Все и ничего одновременно. Вор и полицейский - родные братья, которые с детства ненавидят друг друга. Полицейский ходит на интимные свидания с девушкой, не подозревая, что она в банде его брата. А у девушки, в свою очередь, страстный роман с очаровательной женщиной-профессором.
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Рохерио, богатый молодой человек, и его загадочная жена Леонор устраивают вечеринку в саду свой роскошной виллы на острове Сан-Мигел. Среди приглашенных есть одна весьма занятная пара постарше: философски настроенная и наблюдательная Ирен и престарелый распутник Мишель. Пары «меняются партнерами», словно в танце: Рохерио беседует с Ирен, в то время, как Леонор идет к морю с Мишелем. Если разговор с Ирен расстраивает Рохерио, то беседа с Мишелем всецело захватывает воображение Леонор. Проходит пять лет. На той же вилле накрыт стол на четырех. Мишель и Леонор снова покидают своих спутников. Куда приведут их трудно различимые «подводные течения»?
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Майкл, американский профессор, приезжает со своей прекрасной женой-француженкой Элен в португальский монастырь в поисках доказательств того, что Шекспир был на самом деле испанским евреем. Глава монастыря, мрачный Балтар, одержимо влюбляется в Элен.
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Леао, рабочий-гастарбайтер на лиссабонской стройке, падает в обморок, а обморок оборачивается двухмесячной комой. Мариана, молодая медсестра, ухаживает за пациентом и отправляется сопровождать его в возвращении на родину, на Кабо Верде, где нет нужных медикаментов, но наверняка есть родственники Леао. Мариана пытается раскрыть прошлое неподвижного пациента, оно становится ясным, то вновь запутывается, и заставляет ее каждый день смотреть на жизнь под новым углом. Пробуждение главного героя открывает новый виток спирали.
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Режиссер Фридрих Монро решил снять в Лиссабоне фильм таким образом, как будто не было развития кино. Один на городских улицах, с допотопной камерой, он вдруг понимает, что ему все же не обойтись без своего друга звукооператора, и вот герой шлет ему телеграмму с просьбой срочно приехать…
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Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a lover.
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Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a lover.
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Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
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"Все действие происходит в весьма условном сумасшедшем доме в Португалии: особняк в парке, отсутствие мед. персонала, респектабельная одежда обитателей - все это делает их похожими на посетителей светского приема, и ничто в очищенном от быта пространстве не отвлекает от отвлеченных разговоров, из которых фильм и состоит. Все обитатели страдают от религиозных галлюцинаций того или иного рода - даже циник, который вообще отрицает ценность любой религии. Одна пара разыгрывает историю Адама и Евы в Саду, а затем женщина, которая изображала Еву, разыгрывает из себя Св. Терезу де Авила. Другая пара воображает себя персонажами романа Достоевского, а один мужчина заявляет, что в его распоряжении - пятое Евангелие. И у каждого есть своя точка зрения, которую он не смущается высказывать, защищая ее в дебатах с большой искренностью."
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1999 г. на исходе. Индийский ядерный спутник вышел из-под контроля. Но Клер на это наплевать. Она увлечена преследованием таинственного Сэма-Тревора, за которым охотится ФБР. Очевидно, у него есть ценное изобретение.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
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A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
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A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. (Mubi)
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An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. (Mubi)
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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 personalities.
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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 personalities.
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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.
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A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
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Картина рассказывает о судьбе художника в мире коммерции.
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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.
