José Manuel Mendes

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominiq...

The Last Bath

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love...

Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fat...

Mrs. Hope

Mrs. Hope is a charismatic octogenarian widow, living alone in a pleasant apartment in Lisbon along with her ca...

Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want

Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gripping Briti...

Just Retired 2

Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, the...

The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the c...

Heiko

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to ex...

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordea...

The Uncertainty Principle

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Love Torn in a Dream

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind...

The Strange Case of Angelica

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica....

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible...

The Metamorphosis of Birds

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henr...

The Fifth Empire

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebast...

Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fat...

Paraíso Perdido

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years bef...

An Outpost of Progress

At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civili...

The Cannibals

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissi...

A Girl in Summer

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her l...

Índia

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of s...

A Hora da Liberdade

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d...

Uma História do Espectador de Cinema

Empty Hands

A dark and surreal comedy about a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for life advice.

No Dia dos Meus Anos

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode...

Terra Nova, Mar Velho

Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing.