Portuguese Movies I Watched
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- DirectorMarco PontecorvoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaGoran VisnjicStephanie GilThree young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.
- DirectorPedro Neves MarquesStarsIsabel CostaZé BernardinoPedro Neves MarquesMirene and André are a straight couple struggling with infertility. Carl and Vicente are a gay couple undergoing an experimental procedure to have a child. An exploration of gender, reproduction, normativity and the notion of family.
- DirectorSalomé LamasThis 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life.
- DirectorEugène GreenStarsLeonor BaldaqueFrancisco MozosDiogo DóriaA young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsSónia BandeiraFábio OliveiraJoaquim CarvalhoDocu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsJosé AirosaGracinda NaveSara GraçaFrancisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30's you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
- DirectorManuel MozosFragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.
- DirectorJoão Pedro PlácidoStarsDaniel Xavier PereiraAntónio GuimarãesDaniela BarrosoVolta à Terra tells the story of an endangered community: farmers who practice subsistence farming in a mountainous village of northern Portugal, deserted due to emigration. Between the evocation of the past and their uncertain future, we follow the 49 inhabitants through four seasons.
- DirectorSalomé LamasStarsPaulo de FigueiredoA documentary encounter with the presence, history, and memories of an itinerant mercenary, this confrontational debut by Salomé Lamas is an intimate experience at once absorbing and terrifying.
- DirectorGeorges GachotStarsRachel BalassianoJoão DonatoMarc FischerWhere are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova, Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has not been seen in public for decades. Fischer described his journey in a book, Hobalala, but committed suicide one week before it was published. By taking up Marc Fischer's quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he left us, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?