Luís Lima Barreto

A Filha

Abraham's Valley

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries...

April Captains

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist polic...

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young...

Pilgrimage

Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled rom...

1936 - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heter...

Operation Autumn

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

Word and Utopia

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better...

The Divine Comedy

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Son...

Demain?

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, b...

The Sword and the Rose

Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board trigger...

Lisboa Cultural

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most rel...

The Fifth Empire

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

Um Filme em Forma de Assim

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpec...

Dead Man's Seat

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman...

Young Mr. Cunhal

The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is...

Adeus Senhor António

Film adaptation of "The letter from the hunchback to the locksmith" by Fernando Pessoa's heteronym Maria José.