Portugal Movies

For five years, seven friends film their lives together and apart from each other. As time goes by, a film begins to emerge when this archive is...

The filmmaker brings to life his child-hood memories of his vacations with his father, making this film his thank-you.

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships...

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the...

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...

Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de...

One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French...

A film about distance, loss and the fragility of life symbolized through a garden that fell and a sea that swallowed it up.

In February 2022, I found a quote by Gonçalo Santa Ferreira at the Bombu Mininu bar in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde. “All is...

“Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another”, narrates the voiceover....

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

Many years ago, grandfather Noé built a fish trap. Hidden in the jungle, it is a lost legacy for the hunters of the Indigenous Okaina...

Three brothers are confronted with an imposing father who avail them the heritage, identity and emotional intelligence: seven weeks is the deadline...

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a...

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

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

Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in South America and beyond. Now in his seventies, he...

Emilio is a lifelong farmer in his eighties who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is...