Blood of My Blood

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond an

The Actor's Work

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creati

Trial

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, hi

Operation Autumn

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 196

Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napole

Two Women

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial compa

Banzo

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infecte

Second Hand

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows an

Um Filme em Forma de Assim

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

Surface

No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides

Under My Skin

On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her

Peixe-Lua

The story of a family of bull fighters.

The Murmuring Coast

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly disc

Worth Your Weight in Gold

Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vert

True and Tender is the North

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy famil

Cisne

Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tou

Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!

"Come and see this world end!" - wrote the the priest António Fontes, father of folk medicine and "b

A Sibila

In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aun

Where the Sun Beats

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in

Hands in the Fire

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the

Paraíso Perdido

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

Clouds

Tomás is a young teenager who fights for the leadership of a small marginal group. One night, in the

Dina and Django

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a f

Colo

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husba

April Captains

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fa

The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portuga

Disquiet

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about t

Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me

“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a his

Two Brothers, My Sister

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as sh

Ruth

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to grea

From Now On

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her invol

Repórter X

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

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

The King's Trial

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the f

Pilgrimage

Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unpar

The Portuguese Woman

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks mar

Sea

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected o

The Great Kilapy

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve o

The Lecture

An American writer visits the old Portuguese town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Al

Pedro

Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach

Mariphasa

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic

Anteroom

Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality

Zéfiro

Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with the

Acts of Cinema

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootin

Moral Order

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the soc

Drifters of a shadowy dream

X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming location

The Secret Agent

An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during

The Domain

The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south ba

Cães Sem Coleira

The Jester

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in

The Room You Take

We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing

Silêncios do Olhar

The story of the making of "O Bobo" by José Álvaro de Morais, that lasted 10 years from start to fin

1871

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Obsessive Rhythms

On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Car

The Lovebirds

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an interna

Flesh of My Flesh

A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.

Retrato de Família

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is

La Gamine

A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. Ther

O Meu Nome É...

The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed

Feu Adrien Muset

The Worst Man in London

In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art ag

As Meninas Exemplares

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boy

She Was Staring and Saw Nothing

Forget everything, or recover memory and remember. Let yourself fall and stop, or return to life and

Memórias do Cárcere

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a y

Mysteries of Lisbon

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

Maria Vitória

Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local