Quinzinho (Matheus Nachtergaele) has a promise to keep: take your child, Neco (Vinicius Miranda), to the city to watch a movie Mazzaropi. Read More »
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Memories of Prison (1984) Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Carlos Vereza, Glória Pires, Nildo Parente
Graciliano Ramos’ period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government. Read More »
Jango (1984) Silvio Tendler, Leonel Brizola, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, João Goulart
The film depicts the life and career of João Belchior Marques Goulart, known as “Jango” Read More »
Our Beloved Month of August (2008) Miguel Gomes, Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Emmanuelle Fèvre
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity… Read More »
In the Shadow of the Vultures (1998) Leonel Vieira, Vítor Norte, Diogo Infante, José Eduardo
1962 in Tras-os-Montes, a miners’ strike begins to be repressed by the National Guard. Read More »
Escola Penal de Meninas Violentadas (1977) Antonio Meliande, Meiry Vieira, Sérgio Hingst, Zilda Mayo
Young female delinquents are sent to a correctional facility run by a lesbian, depraved nun. Read More »
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier Read More »
Mudar de Vida, José Mario Branco, vida e obra (2014) Pedro Fidalgo, Nelson Guerreiro
A documentary about the life and work of musician, composer, poet, actor, activist, columnist, music producer, José Mário Branco Read More »
Game of Checkers (2015) Patrícia Sequeira, Ana Nave, Ana Padrão, Fátima Belo
Following Marta’s wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. Read More »
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009) Anna Muylaert, Glória Pires, Paulo Miklos, Alessandra Colassanti
In São Paulo, the lonely forty and something year-old guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment Read More »
Brainstorm (2000) Laís Bodanzky, Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager Read More »
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums (1984) Fernando Lopes, Nuno Duarte, João Perry, Lia Gama
A gang decides to rob the Gulbenkian Museum, tired of their petty robberies. Read More »
Ruínas (2009) Manuel Mozos
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work Read More »
No Trace of Sin (1983) José Fonseca e Costa, Victoria Abril, Saul Santos
A young man coming from the high-bourgeois family, Henry, recives in the barrack where he’s getting the military service Read More »
The Woman of Everyone (1969) Rogério Sganzerla, Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents Read More »