Portuguese Movies
by kawork | created - 31 Jul 2021 | updated - 7 months ago | PublicList of Portuguese Movies, not incl. TV Movies or Series, Documentary, Short Movies.
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1. The Sword and the Rose (2010)
142 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact.
Director: João Nicolau | Stars: Manuel Mesquita, Luís Lima Barreto, Nuno Pino Custódio, Pedro Faro
Votes: 103
2. John From (2015)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Bored by spending the summer in the city, 15-year-old Rita decides to take a fancy to her new neighbor, a photographer who is setting up an exhibit of his shots in Melanesia. What starts as... See full summary »
Director: João Nicolau | Stars: Julia Palha, Clara Riedenstein, Filipe Vargas, Adriano Luz
Votes: 544
3. Technoboss (2019)
112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Retirement is coming soon for Luís Rovisco. The songs he dreams up during the day make up for all the injustices in his life. But standing before the receptionist Lucinda, he finds himself singing to a different tune.
Director: João Nicolau | Stars: Miguel Lobo Antunes, Luísa Cruz, Américo Silva, Tiago Garrinhas
Votes: 340
4. Aqui na Terra (1993)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miguel is a successful economist until his father's death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from ... See full summary »
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Jessica Weiss, Pedro Hestnes, Rita Dias
Votes: 60
5. Haircut (1995)
91 min | Drama
The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the '90s. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Sapinho | Stars: Carla Bolito, Marco Delgado, Francisco Nascimento, Orlando Sérgio
Votes: 256
6. Sapatos Pretos (1998)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Ana Bustorff, Vítor Norte, João Reis, Teresa Madruga
Votes: 252
7. The Mutants (1998)
113 min | Drama
Three homeless teenagers rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Director: Teresa Villaverde | Stars: Ana Moreira, Alexandre Pinto, Nelson Varela, Helder Tavares
Votes: 651
8. Ganhar a Vida (2001)
115 min | Drama
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, ... See full summary »
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz, Teresa Madruga, Alda Gomes
Votes: 160
9. Camarate (2001)
100 min | Drama, History
Luisa, a Portuguese Supreme Court Judge, is given the Camarate File, the investigation of the accident that led to the death of Portuguese Prime-Minister and his accompanists on December ... See full summary »
Director: Luís Filipe Rocha | Stars: Maria João Luís, Virgílio Castelo, Filipe Ferrer, Cândido Ferreira
Votes: 171
10. Noite Escura (2004)
94 min | Drama, Crime
"Noite Escura" is a disturbing movie about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Fernando Luís, Rita Blanco, Beatriz Batarda, Cleia Almeida
Votes: 615
11. The Murmuring Coast (2004)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Based on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
Director: Margarida Cardoso | Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Monica Calle, Adriano Luz
Votes: 312
12. Querença (2004)
90 min | Drama
Director: José Edgar Feldman | Stars: Joana Bárcia, Diogo Dória, Pedro Lacerda, Antónia Terrinha
Votes: 12
13. Filme da Treta (2006)
91 min | Comedy
Following an apocalyptic vision during a show in the booth of a "peep-show", Zézé decides to join the Order of the Caracolários Descalços.
Director: José Sacramento | Stars: José Pedro Gomes, António Feio, Maria Rueff, José Raposo
Votes: 1,117
14. Viúva Rica Solteira Não Fica (2006)
135 min | Comedy, Drama
Ana Catarina returns home to marry a man she doesn't know. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, which leaves her heir to a fortune and coveted by the aristocrats in the region
Director: José Fonseca e Costa | Stars: Bianca Byington, Cucha Carvalheiro, José Raposo, Rogério Samora
Votes: 135
15. A Escritora Italiana (2007)
78 min | Drama, Romance
In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name "Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years ago. ... See full summary »
Director: André Badalo | Stars: Lúcia Moniz, Diogo Morgado, Nicolau Breyner, Simone de Oliveira
Votes: 26
16. Corrupção (2007)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Nicolau Breyner, Margarida Vila-Nova, António Pedro Cerdeira, Alexandra Lencastre
Votes: 837
17. Call Girl (2007)
Unrated | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Maria (Soraia Chaves) a sensual call girl, is hired by Mouros (Joaquim de Almeida) to seduce Meireles (Nicolau Breyner), the Mayor of Vilanova, so that he can authorize a multinational to build a high quality resort. However, Madeira (Ivo Canelas) and Neves (Jose Raposo), PJ police detectives, discover the evidence of corruption and begin to investigate Meireles. Everything becomes even more ... See full summary »
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Soraia Chaves, Ivo Canelas, Nicolau Breyner, Joaquim de Almeida
Votes: 2,405
18. The Art of Stealing (2008)
103 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Director: Leonel Vieira | Stars: Ivo Canelas, Enrique Arce, Flora Martínez, Nicolau Breyner
Votes: 1,103
19. El Contrato (II) (2009)
95 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Peter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
Director: Nicolau Breyner | Stars: Pedro Lima, Cláudia Vieira, Vítor Norte, Sofia Aparício
Votes: 597
20. O Último Condenado à Morte (2009)
94 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
Director: Francisco Manso | Stars: Ivo Canelas, Maria João Bastos, Nicolau Breyner, Albano Jerónimo
Votes: 44
21. Embargo (2010)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding ... See full summary »
Director: António Ferreira | Stars: Filipe Costa, Cláudia Carvalho, Pedro Diogo, José Raposo
Votes: 444
22. 7 Pecados Rurais (2013)
97 min | Comedy
The annual festival of Curral de Moinas is ready. Quim and Zé are eager to meet their Lisbon cousins and have a party without limits. But God decides to interfere with their plans and give those two sinners a true moral lesson.
Director: Nicolau Breyner | Stars: João Paulo Rodrigues, Pedro Alves, Alda Gomes, Melânia Gomes
Votes: 1,438
23. Getúlio (2014)
101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination ... See full summary »
Director: João Jardim | Stars: Tony Ramos, Drica Moraes, Thiago Justino, Clarisse Abujamra
Votes: 1,258
24. Cavern Club (2015)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The greatest romance and adventure in a thousand years!
Stars: Tiago Albuquerque, Lígia Andrade, Miguel Décio, Maria Leite
25. O Leão da Estrela (2015)
110 min | Comedy
The story revolves around Anastácio, an supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, an supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?
Director: Leonel Vieira | Stars: Miguel Guilherme, Sara Matos, Ana Varela, Dânia Neto
Votes: 784
26. Axilas (2016)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: José Fonseca e Costa | Stars: Pedro Lacerda, Elisa Lisboa, Maria da Rocha, André Gomes
Votes: 129
27. Saint George (2016)
112 min | Crime, Drama
An unemployed boxer turned collection agency employee deals with the deplorable methods they have to use when collecting bad debts.
Director: Marco Martins | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Mariana Nunes, David Semedo, José Raposo
Votes: 2,108
28. Delírio em Las Vedras (2016)
83 min | Comedy
Director: Edgar Pêra | Stars: Marina Albuquerque, Miguel Borges, Débora Coelho, José de Pina
Votes: 40
29. Ruth (III) (2018)
120 min | Biography, Romance
The story of how football (soccer) superstar Eusébio, arrives in Lisbon from Mozambique to find himself involved in a sports rivalry older than the "Roman Right". Set in 1960/61, a tumultuous year for Portugal and it's fascist regime.
Director: António Pinhão Botelho | Stars: Igor Regalla, Afonso Lagarto, Almeno Gonçalves, Álvaro Correia
Votes: 275
30. Linhas de Sangue (2018)
132 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
Directors: Sérgio Graciano, Manuel Pureza | Stars: Samuel Alves, Tomás Alves, Álvaro Aragonez, Kelly Bailey
Votes: 330
31. Variações: Guardian Angel (2019)
109 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
Director: João Maia | Stars: Sérgio Praia, Filipe Duarte, Victoria Guerra, Augusto Madeira
Votes: 3,866
32. Bruno Aleixo's Film (2019)
91 min | Comedy
The famous character of YouTube, Bruno Aleixo books his own movie. In fact, Bruno decides to write an autobiography. He meets with friends so they can consider the ideas for the text.
Directors: João Moreira, Pedro Santo | Stars: Adriano Luz, Rogério Samora, José Neto, Gonçalo Waddington
Votes: 1,274
33. Submissão (2020)
117 min | Drama
A woman files a case in court against her own husband, on the charge of rape.
Director: Leonardo António | Stars: Iolanda Laranjeiro, Maria João Abreu, João Catarré, Martinho Silva
Votes: 144
34. Bem Bom (2021)
111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In 1979, four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.
Director: Patrícia Sequeira | Stars: Bárbara Branco, Lia Carvalho, Carolina Carvalho, Ana Marta Ferreira
Votes: 756
35. O Som Que Desce na Terra (2021)
106 min | Drama
Director: Sérgio Graciano | Stars: Gabriela Barros, José Condessa, José Raposo, Margarida Marinho
Votes: 67
36. Fragments of an Alms-Film (1972)
75 min | Comedy
Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants.... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Manuela de Freitas, João Perry, Dalila Rocha, Catarina Coelho
Votes: 121
37. Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe (1978)
45 min
Director: Solveig Nordlund | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Lia Gama, João Carlos, Francisca Menezes
Votes: 7
38. Silvestre (1981)
120 min | Drama
The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 351
39. Island of Loves (1982)
170 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Theatrical drama influenced by the Portuguese medieval poem of the same name, about an island promised to Lusitanian warriors by the Goddess Venus.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana, Zita Duarte, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 114
40. Gestures and Fragments: An Essay on the Military and Power (1982)
90 min | History
An essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Seixas Santos | Stars: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Eduardo Lourenço, Robert Kramer, Joaquim Furtado
Votes: 30
41. Sinais de Vida (1984)
75 min | Biography
Director: Luís Filipe Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana, Costa Ferreira, Lucinda Loureiro
42. Ninguém Duas Vezes (1984)
107 min | Drama, Mystery
The dates of the exhibit have been set. Bernd Hoffmann is in Lisbon, which he had already visited in 1974, when he met the young artist Hanna Brauer. The exhibit will present paintings by ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Silva Melo | Stars: Michael König, Manuela de Freitas, Luís Miguel Cintra, Glicínia Quartin
Votes: 11
43. Vertiges (1985)
108 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Christine Laurent | Stars: Magali Noël, Krystyna Janda, Paulo Autran, Hélène Lapiower
Votes: 20
44. The Satin Slipper (1985)
410 min | Drama
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Anne Gautier
Votes: 190
45. Mon cas (1986)
92 min | Drama, Fantasy
Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky, Fred Personne
Votes: 222
46. O Desejado (1987)
117 min | Drama
João is the spiritual heir (the term he prefers to bastard) of Manuel Brandão, his dying godfather, and at the same time the political leader of a small party of a disintegrating governmental coalition.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Caroline Chaniolleau, Yves Afonso, Jacques Bonnaffé
Votes: 44
47. The Jester (1987)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Director: José Álvaro Morais | Stars: Fernando Heitor, Paula Guedes, Luís Lucas, Carlos Farinha
Votes: 153
48. Uma Pedra no Bolso (1988)
91 min | Drama
A story of initiation and struggle with adulthood: on vacation at the inn of an aunt by the sea, Miguel meets Luísa, fisherman João and Dr. Fernando, three characters that will mark the entrance of his first "stone in his pocket.
Director: Joaquim Pinto | Stars: Inês de Medeiros, Isabel de Castro, Bruno Leite, Manuel Lobão
Votes: 102
49. The Cannibals (1988)
90 min | Musical, Drama, Fantasy
A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Oliveira Lopes
Votes: 538
50. Blood (1989)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 1,157
51. Where the Sun Beats (1989)
88 min | Drama
Laura lives in Vouzela with her husband who is a lot older than her. When her brother Nuno visits her, he realizes that Laura does not have a happy life.
Director: Joaquim Pinto | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Inês de Medeiros, Maria de Medeiros, Manuel Lobão
Votes: 79
52. Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)
122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado, Teresa Calado
Votes: 1,418
53. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 982
54. A Divina Comédia (1991)
140 min | Drama
Patients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Miguel Cintra, Mário Viegas
Votes: 504
55. A Morte do Príncipe (1991)
62 min | Drama, Fantasy
Three short stories by a great poet and esoterist, Fernando Pessoa, dealing with the themes of life, ascesis, and death - originally brought to the stage at the 1989 Avignon Festival: "... See full summary »
Director: Maria de Medeiros | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Maria de Medeiros, Francisco Campanico, D. Jose De Athayde
Votes: 24
56. O Dia do Desespero (1992)
75 min | Biography, Drama
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Teresa Madruga, Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória
Votes: 215
57. The Last Dive (1992)
88 min | Drama
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to ... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Fabienne Babe, Canto e Castro, Francesca Prandi, Rita Blanco
Votes: 338
58. Abraham's Valley (1993)
187 min | Drama
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Votes: 1,542
59. Coitado do Jorge (1993)
110 min | Drama
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Director: Jorge Silva Melo | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Ángela Molina, Manuel Wiborg, Graziella Galvani
Votes: 28
60. Zéfiro (1993)
52 min | History
Zéfiro is a film about Lisbon, the last of the Mediterranean cities, condemned to the Atlantic by the vast estuary that separates it from the "other band".
Director: José Álvaro Morais | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Paula Guedes, Marcello Urgeghe, João Calvário
Votes: 32
61. Two Brothers, My Sister (1994)
108 min | Drama
Lisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go ... See full summary »
Director: Teresa Villaverde | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Laura del Sol
Votes: 201
62. A Caixa (1994)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Stories of various individuals living in a poor district of Lisbon are intertwined with the sad life of a blind street vendor whose only means of support is his elm box.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Glicínia Quartin, Ruy de Carvalho, Beatriz Batarda
Votes: 425
63. Down to Earth (1994)
110 min | Drama
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob, Pedro Hestnes
Votes: 1,099
64. The Convent (1995)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Mystery
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 1,078 | Gross: $0.05M
65. Transatlantique (1996)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Another continent, on the other side of the world: Montevideo, Uruguay. This city that was often talked about during the terrible days of the junta is now forgotten. A singer, Laure, ... See full summary »
Director: Christine Laurent | Stars: Laurence Côte, Joaquin Olarreaga, Héctor Spinelli, Monique Mélinand
Votes: 18
66. Anxiety (1998)
110 min | Drama
They are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, José Pinto, Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 400
67. Todas hieren (1998)
82 min | Drama
Director: Pablo Llorca | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Watling, Eusebio Lázaro, José María Caffarel
Votes: 32
68. The Spousals of God (1999)
150 min | Comedy
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Rita Durão, João César Monteiro, Joana Azevedo, José Airosa
Votes: 782
69. The Letter (1999)
107 min | Drama
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 735
70. April Captains (2000)
123 min | Drama, History, War
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Director: Maria de Medeiros | Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frédéric Pierrot
Votes: 3,402
71. A Raiz do Coração (2000)
118 min | Drama
In Lisbon, during the feasts of St. Anthony, the cross breeders of politicians in black shirts and transvestites all dressed in pink. An exuberant allegory of freedom against dictatorship.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Isabel Ruth, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 95
72. Peixe-Lua (2000)
124 min | Drama
Director: José Álvaro Morais | Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Marcello Urgeghe, Ricardo Aibéo, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 65
73. Palavra e Utopia (2000)
130 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 415
74. Branca de Neve (2000)
75 min | Drama
Based on Robert Walser's play, Branca de Neve is a recital of Snow White over a black screen with spontaneous flashing images of clouds and some unintelligible dialogue.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria Do Carmo Rôlo, Ana Brandão, Reginaldo da Cruz, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 441
75. La espalda de Dios (2001)
136 min | Drama
Director: Pablo Llorca | Stars: Isabel Ampudia, Alberto Jiménez, Luís Miguel Cintra, Pedro Casablanc
Votes: 58
76. Rasganço (2001)
93 min | Drama
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Director: Raquel Freire | Stars: Ricardo Aibéo, Ana Teresa Carvalhosa, Isabel Ruth, Paula Marques
Votes: 232
77. The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Director: John Malkovich | Stars: Javier Bardem, Laura Morante, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez
Votes: 6,881 | Gross: $2.38M
78. O Princípio da Incerteza (2002)
133 min | Drama
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveira, Isabel Ruth, Ricardo Trêpa
Votes: 423
79. The Fifth Empire (2004)
127 min | Drama, History
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Ricardo Trêpa, Luís Miguel Cintra, Glória de Matos, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 269
80. Magic Mirror (2005)
137 min | Drama, Music
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Baldaque
Votes: 363
81. Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007)
75 min | Drama, History
A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Baldaque, Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira
Votes: 425
82. Daqui P'ra Frente (2007)
97 min | Drama
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
Director: Catarina Ruivo | Stars: Edgar Morais, Adelaide de Sousa, António Pedro Figueiredo, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 82
83. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy
A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Afonso Bonito, Carmen Santos, Paulo Matos, Ricardo Trêpa
Votes: 2,136 | Gross: $0.05M
84. Demain? (2011)
100 min | Drama
Delmira Agustini is a writer, in Montevideo, in the early years of the twentieth century, just before the outbreak of the First World War.
Director: Christine Laurent | Stars: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Marc Ruchmann, Teresa Madruga, Adriano Luz
Votes: 62
85. Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
95 min | Drama
Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 698
86. Second Hand (2012)
110 min | Drama, Thriller
Jorge is a lonely writer of popular fiction. At night, he looks through lighted up windows at people in their homes and thinks, yes, they are happy. One day, chance, he thinks, takes him to... See full summary »
Director: Catarina Ruivo | Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Rita Durão, Luís Miguel Cintra, João Grosso
Votes: 20
87. Se Eu Fosse Ladrão, Roubava (2013)
87 min | Drama
An indirect autobiography of Paulo Rocha, through the character of a father, that explores family, opportunity, immigration and identity.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Luís Miguel Cintra, Chandra Malatitch, Joana Bárcia
Votes: 52
88. Miserere (2013)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Ricardo Aibéo | Stars: Dinis Gomes, Duarte Guimarães, João Grosso, José Airosa
89. Correspondences (2016)
145 min | Biography, Drama, History
The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through ... See full summary »
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes | Stars: Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Tânia Dinis, Rita Durão
Votes: 122
90. Rage (2018)
84 min | Drama
A beautiful and intense visual story about hunger, misery and exploitation in southern Portugal in the 1950's and about the growing rage and strength building up upon people. The Alentejo ... See full summary »
Director: Sérgio Tréfaut | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira, Hugo Bentes, Kaio César
Votes: 302
91. War (2020)
105 min | Drama
The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk ... See full summary »
Directors: José Oliveira, Marta Ramos, Mariana Parasense | Stars: Ana Alexandre, Luís Barbosa, Fernando Castro, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 31
92. Retrato de Família (1991)
102 min | Drama
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so... See full summary »
Director: Luís Galvão Teles | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Maria de Medeiros, Paola Dominguín, Luísa Barbosa
Votes: 21
93. No Dia dos Meus Anos (1992)
65 min | Drama
Presents, cake, good friends, and a cute birthday song!
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Jessica Weiss, João Lagarto, André Costa, Madalena Rodrigues
Votes: 34
94. Das Tripas Coração (1992)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pinto | Stars: Elsa Batalha, Manuel Wiborg, Leonor Silveira, Armando Cortez
Votes: 29
95. Três Palmeiras (1994)
68 min | Comedy, Drama
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Teresa Roby, Pedro Hestnes, Rita Lopes Alves, Alexandra Lencastre
Votes: 45
96. Party (1996)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira, Rogério Samora
Votes: 323
97. Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)
91 min | Biography, Drama
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with his film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France. In the process, he remembers his own youth.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória
Votes: 824
98. Porto Santo (1997)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Jorge Silva | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Carlos Martins Medeiros, Ana Zanatti, Beatriz Batarda
Votes: 49
99. I'm Going Home (2001)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey
Votes: 1,848
100. Porto da Minha Infância (2001)
61 min | Biography, Drama
The city of Porto viewed by the intimate eye of Manoel de Oliveira.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Jorge Trêpa, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria de Medeiros, Manoel de Oliveira
Votes: 539
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