Tabu

Tabu 2012

7.06

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

2012

The Last Bath

The Last Bath 2020

5.40

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

2020

They Shot the Piano Player

They Shot the Piano Player 2023

6.46

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.

2023

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America 2019

6.50

Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the legend of the Far West. By giving a face to the underprivileged, from humble cowboys to persecuted minorities, he revealed like no one else the great social divisions that existed and still exist in the United States. More than four decades after his death, what remains of his legacy and humanistic values in the memory of those who love his work?

2019

April Captains

April Captains 2000

6.40

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.

2000

Goodbye, Father

Goodbye, Father 1996

6.58

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality.

1996

The Longest Voyage

The Longest Voyage 2020

4.50

Spain, 1519. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator in the service of King Charles I, undertakes, at the command of five ships, a commercial expedition to the Moluccas. The story of the first circumnavigation of the world, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1522.

2020

Operation Autumn

Operation Autumn 2012

6.80

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

2012

The Human Surge

The Human Surge 2017

5.78

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

2017

The Mask of Satan

The Mask of Satan 1990

4.10

Skiers in Northern Italy unwittingly awaken an ancient witch after removing her mask in a crevasse. Their actions unleash a curse, leading to terrifying consequences.

1990

Florbela

Florbela 2012

5.00

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

2012

Blood

Blood 1989

6.90

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.

1989

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

How to Draw a Perfect Circle 2009

5.40

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

2009

Women

Women 1997

4.80

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

1997

The Ornithologist

The Ornithologist 2016

6.10

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

2016

Ossos

Ossos 1997

6.80

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

1997

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One 2015

6.90

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.

2015

Bad Living

Bad Living 2023

6.50

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

2023

Um Dia de Futebol

Um Dia de Futebol 2019

1

In the cup final, a David versus Goliath story in the football kingdom On May 20, Desportivo das Aves reached a Portuguese Cup final for the first time. It is the story of the journey of Desportivo das Aves team and its fans, from the departure from the town of Aves to Jamor to face Sporting. A live story of the suffering of the fans outside and inside the stadium, accompanied by the narration of the game by Antena 1. "Um Dia de Futebol" is a documentary that portrays the experience of the supporters, players, and coaches of Desportivo das Aves 24 hours before, until the final moment of the Portuguese Cup match, in a historical moment.

2019

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

The Octopuses from the Second Floor 1987

6.90

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.

1987