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Top 191 films from Portugal (out of 191 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Overview↕
The Courtyard of the Ballads	1,942	Francisco Ribeiro	Music, Comedy, Family	8.6	42	Portuguese	A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
A Song of Lisbon	1,933	José Cottinelli Telmo	Music, Comedy	8.6	41	Portuguese	Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
Recollections of the Yellow House	1,989	João César Monteiro	Comedy, Drama	8.2	28	Portuguese	Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
The Lone Wolf	2,021	Filipe Melo	Mystery	8.1	10	Portuguese	One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
The Tyrannical Father	1,941	António Lopes Ribeiro	Family, Comedy, Romance	7.8	36	Portuguese	While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.
O Costa d'África	1,954	João Mendes	Family, Comedy	7.8	17	Portuguese	Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums o...
Jacinta	2,017	Jorge Paixão da Costa	Drama	7.8	10	Portuguese	The story of Jacinta, one of the three children involved in the Marian apparition reported in 1917 at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal.
The Artist and the City	1,956	Manoel de Oliveira	Documentary	7.7	16	Portuguese	The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. The impressionist realism of Cruz’s drawings dissolves into Oliveira’s vision of Porto, which at the same time portrays the painter and his work.
Aniki-Bóbó	1,942	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, Family	7.6	46	Portuguese	Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha.
John	2,017	Rita Ornellas	Science Fiction, Drama	7.6	24	English	We are in the year 2043 and our existence is immersed in a sea of apathy. A reflexion about our evolution as humans.
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe	2,025	Unknown	Documentary, Crime	7.6	12	Portuguese	In June 2001, hundreds of kilos of cocaine washed up in a Portuguese village. This gripping documentary reveals the long-lasting impact on the community.
Hovering Over the Water	1,993	João César Monteiro	Drama, Romance	7.5	18	Portuguese	Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.
Visit, or Memories and Confessions	2,015	Manoel de Oliveira	Documentary	7.5	15	Portuguese	A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
Fragile as the World	2,001	Rita Azevedo Gomes	Drama, Romance	7.5	13	Portuguese	An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.
Love Torn in a Dream	2,000	Raúl Ruiz	Drama, Fantasy	7.5	11	French	A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
The Mutants	1,998	Teresa Villaverde	Drama	7.5	11	Portuguese	Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Abraham's Valley	1,993	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7.4	42	Portuguese	Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her 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. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Belarmino	1,964	Fernando Lopes	Documentary, Drama	7.4	12	Portuguese	A portrait of Belarmino Fragoso, a veteran boxer in Lisbon nearing the end of his career. In a blend of reportage and re-enactment, the many vices of the once national featherweight champion are revealed against a background of the grim economics of boxing in 1960s Portugal.
Colossal Youth	2,006	Pedro Costa	Drama	7.3	48	Portuguese	After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
O Costa do Castelo	1,943	Arthur Duarte	Comedy, Romance	7.3	26	Portuguese	André (Curado Ribeiro), is a son of a wealthy family who meets a girl called Luisinha (Milu). Luisinha lives at a small pension house with Rita (Maria Olguim) and Januário (João Silva), who are as parents to her, and with mr. Simplício Costa (António Silva), better known as Costa do Castelo, a lazy but highly talented guitar player who together with (Hermínia Silva) reaches success.
Jaime	1,974	António Reis	Documentary	7.3	10	Portuguese	Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.
Horse Money	2,014	Pedro Costa	Drama	7.2	50	Portuguese	While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Alice	2,005	Marco Martins	Drama, Romance	7.2	32	Portuguese	In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
The Lion from Estrela	1,947	Arthur Duarte	Comedy, Romance	7.2	23	Portuguese	Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
Change of Life	1,967	Paulo Rocha	Drama	7.2	20	Portuguese	After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
The Spousals of God	1,999	João César Monteiro	Comedy	7.2	18	Portuguese	After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Come and Go	2,003	João César Monteiro	Drama, Comedy	7.2	16	Portuguese	João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?	2,003	Pedro Costa	Documentary	7.2	14	French	Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect. Incorporating comments about the influence of figures as diverse as Chaplin and Eisenstein, about the ethical and aesthetic implications of film technique and such matters as rhythm, sound mixing, and acting. The film becomes a tour de force, immersing us in the mysteries of cinema as practiced by some of its greatest creators. Costa calls the film both his first comedy and his first love story.
The Immortals	2,003	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Crime, Drama	7.2	13	Portuguese	Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and rem...
Benilde or the Virgin Mother	1,975	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7.2	13	Portuguese	A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.
Trails	1,978	João César Monteiro	Drama, Fantasy	7.2	10	Portuguese	Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Aldeia da Roupa Branca	1,939	Chianca de Garcia	Music, Comedy, Family	7.2	10	Portuguese	Gracinda, a young laundry washer, lives with her godfather, "Uncle" Jacinto, and together they run a family business, doing the laundry for residents of Lisbon in their small village in the outskirts of that city (Canecas). Unfortunately, the business is not going very well, but that changes when Gracinda decides to go to the city to try to convince Chico, "Uncle" Jacinto's son, with whom she is in love, to return to the village and give new life to the business. The village is preparing for the annual festivities and a dispute erupts between "Uncle" Jacinto and his business rival , the widow Quiteria, when each of them invites different bands to play at the same time during the party and dances
Blood of My Blood	2,011	João Canijo	Drama	7.1	31	Portuguese	A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
Doomed Love	1,979	Manoel de Oliveira	Romance, Drama	7.1	18	Portuguese	A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
The Hunt	1,964	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7.1	15	Portuguese	Two friends decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. They form a human chain to pull the victim out, but their affliction mounts, as they have no strategy for doing it, and they can't understand each other.
Working on the Douro River	1,931	Manoel de Oliveira	Documentary	7	37	Portuguese	Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.
Listen	2,020	Ana Rocha de Sousa	Drama	7	35	English	In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their children. The film portrays the tireless battle of these immigrant parents against the law to keep their family together.
Francisca	1,981	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7	34	Portuguese	The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
On Falling	2,025	Laura Carreira	Drama	7	30	English	Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation and isolation that threaten her identity.
Jaime	1,999	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Drama	7	29	Portuguese	A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
The Green Years	1,963	Paulo Rocha	Drama	7	28	Portuguese	Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.
Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo	2,012	Luís Ismael	Action, Adventure, Comedy	7	26	Portuguese	One tries to con. Another keeps stealing. And there's even someone that doesn't know what he's doing... The truth is life is hard for Cultara, Rato and Bino. But it all changes when Tone, the man of the world, returns home to save his dad on the deathbed. And when the four get together, they leave for the most surprising adventure yet. If everything was bad, it's about to get worst!
Hello	2,020	Francisco Brito	Animation	7	24	English	Short animation film about the fear of singing in public
Vazante	2,017	Daniela Thomas	Drama	7	20	Portuguese	Brazil 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out that his wife dies in labor. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife's niece. A restless soul, he returns to droving, leaving his young wife behind alone with the slaves.
Joaquim	2,017	Marcelo Gomes	Drama, History	7	17	Portuguese	Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
Letters from War	2,016	Ivo M. Ferreira	Drama, War	7	17	Portuguese	In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.
Fados	2,007	Carlos Saura	Music, Documentary	7	17	Portuguese	A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.
The Dance of the Paroxysms	1,929	Jorge Brum do Canto	Drama, Fantasy	7	11	Portuguese	This film tells the story of Gonthramm, a young knight who sought in vain for the Holy Grail and, on the way back to join his bride, Galeswithe, is met by Queen Banschi in the nightmarish realm of the Sylphs. Brum do Canto based the story on Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle's Les Elfes.
Unconscious	2,004	Joaquín Oristrell	Comedy, Mystery, Romance	6.9	40	Spanish	A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.
Variações: Guardian Angel	2,019	João Maia	Music, History, Drama	6.9	39	Portuguese	Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
In the White City	1,983	Alain Tanner	Drama, Romance	6.9	38	French	Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
Blood	1,989	Pedro Costa	Drama, Mystery	6.9	26	Portuguese	Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Cats Don't Have Vertigo	2,014	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Comedy, Drama	6.9	21	Portuguese	Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
That Good Night	2,017	Eric Styles	Drama	6.9	14	English	A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.
Tras-os-Montes	1,976	Margarida Cordeiro	Documentary	6.9	13	Portuguese	The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east Portugal, a tapestry of micronarratives where past, present and future become intertwined.
In Vanda's Room	2,001	Pedro Costa	Drama	6.8	51	Portuguese	An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
The Portuguese Falcon	2,015	João Leitão	Comedy, Action	6.8	40	Portuguese	A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".
Balas & Bolinhos	2,001	Luís Ismael	Comedy, Crime	6.8	27	Portuguese	A group of friends meet and set out to rob a gas station.
Tragic Story with Happy Ending	2,005	Regina Pessoa	Animation, Drama	6.8	26	Portuguese	A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
God's Comedy	1,996	João César Monteiro	Comedy, Drama	6.8	24	Portuguese	An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Blind Man's Bluff	1,994	Manoel de Oliveira	Comedy	6.8	11	Portuguese	A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Balas & Bolinhos: O Regresso	2,004	Luís Ismael	Adventure, Crime, Comedy	6.7	27	Portuguese	A group of friends meet after some years apart and decide to go on a treasure hunt.
Morangos com Açúcar - O Filme	2,012	Hugo de Sousa	Comedy, Family, Adventure	6.7	20	Portuguese	Through the madness of summer and to the sound of music, the past and the present of 'Morangos com Açúcar' cross paths in a unique adventure. Between the beach and the pool, the campsite and the holiday camp, long-time friends meet again and new friendships happen.
Gebo and the Shadow	2,012	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	6.7	16	French	Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes.
Bem Bom	2,021	Patrícia Sequeira	Music, Drama	6.7	14	Portuguese	It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.
The Baron	2,011	Edgar Pêra	Drama, Mystery, Horror	6.7	12	Portuguese	A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink. The inspector becomes inextricably entangled in the baron’s world.
Journey to Portugal	2,011	Sérgio Tréfaut	Romance, Drama	6.7	10	Portuguese	Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interrogation, without any explanations. All this occurs because the authorities suspect that something illegal should be behind her trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.
The Jester	1,987	José Álvaro Morais	Drama	6.7	10	Portuguese	Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Out in the Open	2,019	Benito Zambrano	Drama	6.6	99	Spanish	A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively from what has made him flee. His steps will intersect with those of a pastor and, from that moment, nothing will be the same for either of them.
Vitalina Varela	2,019	Pedro Costa	Drama	6.6	70	Portuguese	A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
A Talking Picture	2,003	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, History	6.6	46	Portuguese	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 day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
Saint George	2,017	Marco Martins	Drama	6.6	24	Portuguese	In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.
Arena	2,009	João Salaviza	Drama	6.6	21	Portuguese	A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his money and maybe give them a lesson. But with those actions, comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Is change possible?
The Last Time I Saw Macao	2,012	João Pedro Rodrigues	Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery	6.6	16	Portuguese	A filmmaker returns to Macao, China, to help a friend who is in trouble.
Bad Investigate	2,018	Luís Ismael	Crime, Action, Comedy, Thriller, Drama, Mystery	6.6	15	Portuguese	Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent.
Cosmos	2,015	Andrzej Żuławski	Drama, Comedy, Fantasy	6.5	91	French	Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
The Strange Case of Angelica	2,010	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, Fantasy, Romance	6.5	64	Portuguese	A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.
April Captains	2,000	Maria de Medeiros	Drama, History	6.5	63	Portuguese	Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
The Beauty and the Paparazzo	2,010	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Comedy, Romance	6.5	22	Portuguese	Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
Zona J	1,998	Leonel Vieira	Crime, Drama, Romance	6.5	19	Portuguese	Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla...
The Divine Comedy	1,991	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	6.5	17	Portuguese	In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
The Suspect	2,000	José Miguel Ribeiro	Animation	6.5	15	Portuguese	A train compartment, four people, a ticket collector, a Barcelos penknife and a potential assassin. Will they all make it to the end of the journey?
Silvestre	1,982	João César Monteiro	History, Drama	6.5	13	Portuguese	A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Dédalo	2,013	Jerónimo Rocha	Horror, Science Fiction	6.5	11	English	Trapped inside the Space Freighter/Refinery Dédalo, Siena tries to survive an infestation of diabolic creatures.
Batrachian's Ballad	2,016	Leonor Teles	Documentary	6.5	10	Portuguese	“Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another”, narrates the voiceover. “All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy. There was only one who wasn’t invited to the celebration – the frog. In his rage about the injustice, he committed suicide.” Something Romani and frogs have in common is that they will never be unseen, or stay unnoticed. In her film, young director Leonor Teles weaves the life circumstance of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of a yesterday. Anything but a passive observer, Teles consciously decides to participate and take up position. As a third pillar, she establishes an active applied performance art that becomes integrated in the cinematic narrative. Thereby transforming “once upon a time” into “there is”. “Afterwards, nothing will be as it was and the melody of life will have changed”, explains a voice off-camera. Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2016
The Metamorphosis of Birds	2,021	Catarina Vasconcelos	Documentary, Drama	6.4	43	Portuguese	Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother, Beatriz, on her 21st birthday, spent extended periods at sea, leaving her with six children. This is the beginning of a generational saga.
A Walk with Johnny Guitar	1,996	João César Monteiro	Drama	6.4	14	Portuguese	Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the soundtrack to Johnny Guitar in his head. Strangely enough, there is no sign of the hole in his head. Day breaks over the city. Further strolls are in sight. It is said that Mr. Monteiro, the alter ego of João de Deus, occasionally goes out with Nicholas Ray. At least, they've been seen together.
The Portuguese Woman	2,019	Rita Azevedo Gomes	Drama, History	6.4	13	Portuguese	North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreigner' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
Lisbon	1,956	Ray Milland	Drama, Crime, Thriller	6.4	11	English	For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems challenging enough, but when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife, Sylvia, he realizes his mission comes with a startling catch: Not only must he rescue this man, he must bring him back from the dead.
Magic Mirror	2,006	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	6.4	10	Portuguese	Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.
The Xango from Baker Street	2,001	Miguel Faria Jr.	Mystery, Comedy, Crime, Horror	6.3	40	Portuguese	Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.
The Night	1,999	Regina Pessoa	Animation, Drama	6.3	20	Portuguese	It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
A Bee in the Rain	1,972	Fernando Lopes	Drama	6.3	12	Portuguese	This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
No Man's Land	2,012	Salomé Lamas	Documentary	6.3	11	Portuguese	Us to the fascinating, disturbing, ghostly figure of Paulo de Figueiredo, professional mercenary soldier, from the sixties, played the hired liquidator task in diverse corners of the world.
Christmas Inventory	2,000	Miguel Gomes	Drama, Comedy	6.3	10	Portuguese	A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.
The Infernal Machine	2,022	Andrew Hunt	Thriller, Mystery	6.2	288	English	Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.
Tombs of the Blind Dead	1,972	Amando de Ossorio	Horror	6.2	166	Spanish	In 13th century Berzano, a legion of knights known as the Templar were executed for conducting black magic rituals and committing human sacrifices in a quest for eternal life. 700 years later, they rise from the dead and attack a group of vacationing college students who visit the remains of their abandoned monastery.
O Fantasma	2,000	João Pedro Rodrigues	Drama	6.2	118	Portuguese	Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.
Some Time Later	2,018	José Luis Cuerda	Comedy, Science Fiction	6.2	86	Spanish	Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl	2,009	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, Romance	6.2	43	Portuguese	On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
Rafa	2,012	João Salaviza	Crime, Drama, Family	6.2	17	Portuguese	Rafa is a 13 years old kid concerned with his mother, held in a police station for driving without a license. The director shows a day in the life of a teenager who lives on a problematic area and discovers that her mother was arrested because of an automobile accident.
Historic Centre	2,012	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, Documentary	6.2	14	Portuguese	Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Goodbye, Father	1,996	Luís Filipe Rocha	Drama, Romance	6.2	13	Portuguese	For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality.
Flores	2,017	Jorge Jácome	Fantasy, Science Fiction	6.2	12	Portuguese	In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from.
A Woman's Revenge	2,012	Rita Azevedo Gomes	Drama	6.2	12	Portuguese	Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.
The Jigsaw	2,014	Rashad Al-Safar	Horror, Mystery	6.2	11	English	The purchase of a mystery Jigsaw Puzzle from a strange and unsettling vendor leads a man to an evening of frightening consequences.
Tale About the Cat and the Moon	1,997	Pedro Serrazina	Animation	6.2	10	Portuguese	A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the tale about the cat and the moon.
The Conversation Is Over	1,982	João Botelho	Drama	6.2	10	Portuguese	The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
Maria of the Sea	1,930	José Leitão de Barros	Drama, Romance	6.2	10	Portuguese	Falacha is the captain of a fishing boat, who loses his men in a shipwreck. Among them was the husband of Aurélia, who holds Falacha responsible for the tragedy. Maria, Falacha's daughter, falls in love with Manuel, Aurélia's son, a situation that their mothers refuse to accept.
Amelia’s Children	2,024	Gabriel Abrantes	Horror, Mystery	6.1	145	Portuguese	When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.
The Ornithologist	2,016	João Pedro Rodrigues	Adventure, Drama, Mystery	6.1	107	Portuguese	Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Carga	2,018	Bruno Gascon	Drama	6.1	46	Portuguese	A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.
Backlight	2,010	Fernando Fragata	Drama, Romance, Science Fiction	6.1	46	English	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 other.
Two Drifters	2,005	João Pedro Rodrigues	Drama	6.1	40	Portuguese	After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui.
O Leão da Estrela	2,015	Leonel Vieira	Comedy	6.1	16	Portuguese	The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?
Ballad of Dog Beach	1,987	José Fonseca e Costa	Crime, Drama	6.1	10	Portuguese	In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
The Tsugua Diaries	2,021	Maureen Fazendeiro	Drama	6	22	Portuguese	Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
The Nothing Factory	2,017	Pedro Pinho	Music, Drama	6	18	Portuguese	One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipment and block the relocation of production, they are forced to stand at their posts with no work to do, as a form of retaliation, while negotiations over general lay-offs take place. The pressure leads to a breakdown of the workers along with the world around them.
Amália	2,008	Carlos Coelho da Silva	Drama, Music	6	17	Portuguese	You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth. The story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.
The Tyrant Father	2,022	João Gomes	Comedy	6	10	Portuguese	This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings. Chico loves Tatão, who is courted by Artur. Graça loves Chico, but doesn't know he loves Tatão. Santana writes a play for the Grandelinhas that will serve as a guide to Chico passion and convince Tatão that he is a rich count. The play is then staged and they all end up in prison.
Day of Despair	1,992	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	6	10	Portuguese	Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen	1,972	João César Monteiro	Documentary	6	10	Portuguese	“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is useless to try” - João César Monteiro
Artificial Justice	2,024	Simón Casal	Thriller, Science Fiction	5.9	41	Spanish	In the near future, the Government aims to replace judges with Artificial Intelligence software, pledging to effectively automate and depoliticize the justice system. Carmen Costa, a distinguished judge, has been invited to assess this new procedure. However, when the software’s creator is found dead, she realizes her life is in danger and that she will have to fight the powerful interests that are at play in the highest echelons of the State.
Blood Curse	2,006	Tiago Guedes	Horror, Mystery	5.9	30	Portuguese	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 learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
O Fim da Inocência	2,017	Joaquim Leitão	Drama	5.9	27	Portuguese	Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.
Mutant Blast	2,019	Fernando Alle	Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, Action	5.9	15	Portuguese	Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.
The Face You Deserve	2,005	Miguel Gomes	Comedy, Fantasy	5.9	15	Portuguese	Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
3x3	2,009	Nuno Rocha	Comedy	5.9	14	Portuguese	A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. He shows his abilities to a simple janitor, who also like him, is there all night.
The Art of Stealing	2,008	Leonel Vieira	Action, Comedy, Crime	5.9	14	Portuguese	Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Doomed Love	2,008	Mário Barroso	Drama	5.9	11	Portuguese	A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
Meanwhile	1,999	Miguel Gomes	Drama	5.9	11	Portuguese	A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach.
1618	2,023	Luís Ismael	History, Drama	5.9	10	Portuguese	The Inquisition continues the persecution of Portuguese Jews, sending Visitador Sebastião Noronha to the city of Oporto. With his family and community in danger, António Álvares, decides to outline an escape plan.
Al Berto	2,017	Vicente Alves do Ó	Drama	5.8	17	Portuguese	Portugal, 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town ran by communist winds. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.
The Young One	2,016	Julien Samani	Drama	5.8	10	French	Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his dreams of adventures.
In the Shadow of the Vultures	1,998	Leonel Vieira	Drama	5.8	10	Portuguese	Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Lines of Wellington	2,012	Valeria Sarmiento	Drama, History, War	5.7	44	Portuguese	Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Call Girl	2,007	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Crime, Drama, Thriller	5.7	24	Portuguese	A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local l...
In the Darkness of the Night	2,004	João Canijo	Crime, Drama	5.7	15	Portuguese	A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
I'll See You in My Dreams	2,003	Miguel Ángel Vivas	Horror	5.7	15	Portuguese	The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he finds a second shot at true love, but this blooming romance is threatened by the situation plaguing the town.
The Territory	1,981	Raúl Ruiz	Horror, Drama	5.7	11	Portuguese	A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.
Porto	2,017	Gabe Klinger	Romance, Drama	5.6	44	English	Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.
7 Pecados Rurais	2,013	Nicolau Breyner	Comedy	5.6	29	Portuguese	In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.
To Die Like a Man	2,009	João Pedro Rodrigues	Drama, Music	5.6	22	Portuguese	A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also dealing with her ne’er-do-well son, a soldier who’s gone AWOL.
A Song of Lisbon	2,016	Pedro Varela	Comedy, Music, Romance	5.6	14	Portuguese	How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?
Portuguese Vacation	1,963	Pierre Kast	Drama	5.6	12	French	Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
Disquiet	2,010	João Botelho	Drama	5.5	16	Portuguese	Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.
Moral Order	2,020	Mário Barroso	Drama	5.5	13	Portuguese	In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.
Dot.com	2,007	Luís Galvão Teles	Comedy	5.5	11	English	A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.
Solum	2,019	Diogo Morgado	Science Fiction	5.5	10	English	A reality show on an inhabited island where eight contestants must fight for their survival becomes more than it appears to be. Solum is not just a game -- it's a test, a selection process, and a mirror that confronts the truth of Nature, with the falsehoods of the Human Race.
Mau Mau Maria	2,014	José Alberto Pinheiro	Comedy	5.5	10	Portuguese	Three brothers are confronted with an imposing father who avail them the heritage, identity and emotional intelligence: seven weeks is the deadline for each of them find the respect and love of a woman.
Camera Cafe: The Movie	2,022	Ernesto Sevilla	Comedy	5.4	62	Spanish	Jesús Quesada, an incompetent executive, is appointed as the new director of a company in decline whose survival will now depend on both the ingenuity and ambition of his former colleagues.
Erotic Symphony	1,980	Jesús Franco	Drama, Romance	5.4	29	Spanish	Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually find a nun who's been raped and the three come up with a plot to kill the wife for her money.
The Courtyard of the Ballads	2,015	Leonel Vieira	Comedy	5.4	27	Portuguese	A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.
How to Draw a Perfect Circle	2,009	Marco Martins	Drama	5.4	25	Portuguese	Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
The Black Book	2,018	Valeria Sarmiento	Romance, Drama, History	5.4	22	French	The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
Wolf and Dog	2,022	Cláudia Varejão	Drama	5.4	12	Portuguese	Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a family of three with her mother and grandmother. Early Ana realized that girls and boys were given different tasks. Through her friendship with Luis, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, Ana questions the world that is promised to her. When her friend Cloé arrives from Canada, bringing with her the glowing days of youth, Ana embarks on a journey that will take her beyond the horizon.
The Mystery of Sintra	2,007	Jorge Paixão da Costa	Mystery	5.4	11	Portuguese	Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
Traffic	1,998	João Botelho	Comedy	5.4	10	Portuguese	Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
The State of the World	2,007	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Documentary, Drama	5.3	10	Portuguese	Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection.
Love After Love	1,992	Diane Kurys	Romance, Drama	5.3	10	French	Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
L'ennui	1,998	Cédric Kahn	Drama, Romance	5.2	51	French	A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
The Crime of Father Amaro	2,005	Carlos Coelho da Silva	Drama	5.2	41	Portuguese	A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro"), a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
The Forest of the Lost Souls	2,017	José Pedro Lopes	Drama, Horror	5.2	33	Portuguese	The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.
Filme da Treta	2,006	José Sacramento	Comedy	5.2	15	Portuguese	After having an "apocalyptic vision" in a peep-show cabin, Zezé decides to enter in the Order of the Caracolários Descalços. Tóni visits his friend...
Fado	2,016	Jonas Rothlaender	Thriller, Drama	5.2	14	German	The mysteriously familiar face of a deceased young woman shakes young surgeon Fabian out of his lethargy. On a whim, he leaves Berlin for Portugal, determined to win back his former girlfriend Doro, who works at an architectural company in Lisbon.
Haircut	1,996	Joaquim Sapinho	Drama	5.2	12	Portuguese	The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
Dead Man's Seat	1,984	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Drama, Mystery	5.2	11	Portuguese	A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties	1,980	Jesús Franco	Thriller	5.1	26	Spanish	Two pretty chorus girls, Cecile and Brigitte, who have been sentenced to prison terms, agree to undertake risky undercover work for Senator Conolly...
The Red Siren	2,002	Olivier Megaton	Drama, Action, Thriller	5.1	22	French	Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages	2,022	Isadora Neves Marques	Drama	5.1	10	Portuguese	Mirene and André are a heterosexual couple struggling with infertility issues. Carl and Vicente are a homosexual couple undergoing an experimental procedure in order to have a biological child.
Lovely, Dark, and Deep	2,023	Teresa Sutherland	Horror	5	61	English	Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.
Adam and Eve	1,995	Joaquim Leitão	Drama	5	12	Portuguese	Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.
Here's the Deal	2,013	Alejandro Marzoa Blasco	Comedy	4.9	22	Spanish	Suso and Manuel, two-parent family and lifelong friends, met fifty years, they become unemployed. When the situation is no longer tenable, an unusual fact: one day, while fishing, find a package with ten kilos of cocaine.
Hell	2,011	Carlos Conceição	Drama, Horror	4.9	11	Portuguese	In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
A Few Days in September	2,006	Santiago Amigorena	Drama, Thriller	4.8	29	French	1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
Florbela	2,012	Vicente Alves do Ó	History, Drama	4.8	12	Portuguese	Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
Milla	2,018	Valérie Massadian	Drama	4.8	11	French	A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.
Damned Summer	2,017	Pedro Cabeleira	Drama	4.8	11	Portuguese	Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.
Strokkur	2,011	João Salaviza	Documentary	4.8	10	Portuguese	In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collect images and sounds instead of producing them. The camera, the microphone and the mini-amplifier: tools that take away and then give back. We defined a rule: the sound shouldn't illustrate the image and the image shouldn't absorb the sound. Less than a hundred kilometres from Reykjavik we found Strokkur. For three days we saw and heard the internal dynamics of the crevice: the boiling water that spat out every seven minutes and the thermal shock, given the eighteen degrees below zero of the atmosphere.
Deux	2,002	Werner Schroeter	Drama	4.7	11	French	After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
Catarina and the others	2,011	André Badalo	Drama, Mystery	4.6	91	Portuguese	Outside, the first sun rays break the dawn. Sixteen years old Catarina can't fall asleep. Inconsequently, in the big city adults are moved by desire... Catarina found she is HIV positive. She wants to drag everyone else along.
Inside Out	2,014	Edgar Pêra	Comedy	4.6	15	Portuguese	João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.
A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera	2,009	Joaquim Leitão	N/A	4.6	10	Portuguese	Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.
Adelaide	2,018	Justin Amorim	Crime, Drama, Mystery	4.4	11	Portuguese	In the most anticipated interview of the year, sisters Adelaide, Carolina and Julia Paixão come together with their mother Anita - to recount the events that led to one of the most controversial crimes ever committed in Portugal.
Adrift	2,017	Sérgio Graciano	Adventure, Drama, Thriller	4.1	55	Portuguese	When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
Real Playing Game	2,013	David Rebordão	Science Fiction, Action, Adventure	4	27	English	In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.
Stalin's Couch	2,016	Fanny Ardant	Drama	4	15	French	Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
What's New About Love?	2,012	Hugo Alves	Drama, Romance	4	11	Portuguese	Six friends meet every evening in a basement to make music. During the daytime, however, there are no rehearsals for what life brings us. Each endeavour leaves its mark. Rita left Ricardo, Rafael found her, but she still feels lost. Eduardo thought he no longer liked Maria, but after what he has done he cannot turn the clock back. João lacks the courage to breakup with his girlfriend and takes refuge in the song he is writing for Inês. Marco struggles to get another young man’s love, but he is under no illusions. Samuel believes in everlasting love but something is wrong because his friends haven’t heard from him for sometime. Inês, attempting to feel safe, likes to experiment and she's waiting to see how things go with João. With all this going on, how could the band not be falling apart...?
Never Ever	2,016	Benoît Jacquot	Drama	3.9	19	French	Based on Don DeLillo's novella "The Body Artist," the film swirls around a self-centered filmmaker who, during a screening of one of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist. Dumping his leading lady and long-time lover, Rey embarks on a wild and delirious affair with the equally willing Laura, who jumps on the back of his motorcycle and rides with him into instantaneous love.
Corruption	2,007	João Botelho	Crime, Drama	3.7	12	Portuguese	A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Two Women	2,009	João Mário Grilo	Drama	3.4	12	Portuguese	Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures... ~ FICA

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