Movie List for "portugal"

Secretos del corazón (1997) Drama Movie

Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed Year 1997.

Generes: Drama
Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Writer: Montxo Armendáriz
Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Silvia Munt

Torre Bela (1975) Documentary Movie

The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred … Year 1975.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Thomas Harlan, Jacques d’Arthuys, Anna Devoto, Luc Mohler, Luisa Orioli
Writer: Thomas Harlan
Actors: Thomas Harlan, Maria Vitória, José Neves Paiva, Herculano Valada Martins

O Princípio da Incerteza (2002) Drama Movie

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family. Year 2002.

Generes: Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: Agustina Bessa-Luís, Manoel de Oliveira, Jacques Parsi
Actors: Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveira, Isabel Ruth

Terra Sonâmbula (2007) Drama Movie

In the midst of Mozambique’s devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man’ Year 2007.

Generes: Drama
Director: Teresa Prata
Writer: Mia Couto, Teresa Prata
Actors: Nick Lauro Teresa, Aladino Jasse, Ernesto Lemos Macuacua

Vale Abraão (1993) Drama Movie

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 the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but d Year 1993.

Generes: Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: Agustina Bessa-Luís, Manoel de Oliveira
Actors: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra

Casa de Lava (1994) Drama Movie

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 Year 1994.

Generes: Drama
Director: Pedro Costa
Writer: Pedro Costa
Actors: Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob

Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe (1975) Drama Movie

Raised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel. Year 1975.

Generes: Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: José Régio, Manoel de Oliveira
Actors: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva

Past and Present (1972) Comedy Movie

Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: Vicente Sanches (play), Manoel de Oliveira (adaptation), Vicente Sanches (dialogue)
Actors: Maria de Saisset, Manuela de Freitas, Bárbara Vieira, Alberto Inácio

A Caça (1964) Short Drama Movie

José and Roberto are friends, and they decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather Year 1964.

Generes: Short, Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: Manoel de Oliveira
Actors: António Rodrigues Sousa, João Rocha Almeida, Albino Freitas

Necronomicon – Geträumte Sünden (1968) Horror Movie

Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60’s landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games. Year 1968.

Generes: Horror
Director: Jesús Franco
Writer: Pier A. Caminnecci
Actors: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Adrian Hoven

Der Stand der Dinge (1982) Drama Movie

The crew is running out of money to finish their film. Year 1982.

Generes: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Robert Kramer, Wim Wenders, Joshua Wallace
Actors: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten

A Comédia de Deus (1995) Comedy Drama Movie

João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding wo Year 1995.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: João César Monteiro
Writer: João César Monteiro, Luís Vaz de Camões
Actors: Cláudia Teixeira, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas

O Jardim do Outro Homem (2007) Drama Movie

Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there. Year 2007.

Generes: Drama
Director: Sol de Carvalho
Writer: Gonçalo Galvão Teles, Joana Smith, Sol de Carvalho
Actors: Evaristo Abreu, Timóteo Maposse, Maria Amélia Pangane

Queimada (1969) Action Drama War Movie

During a slave revolt in 1844, a British mercenary helps an Antilles island colony gain its independence from Portugal, but years later he returns to manhunt a local rebel army leader and former friend. Year 1969.

Generes: Action, Drama, War
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Writer: Franco Solinas, Giorgio Arlorio, Gillo Pontecorvo
Actors: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori

Tabu (2012) Drama Romance Movie

A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor’s maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa. Year 2012.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Miguel Gomes
Writer: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Actors: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortêncílio Aquina

Anatomy of Hell (2004) Drama Movie

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she’s “unwatchable”. Year 2004.

Generes: Drama
Director: Catherine Breillat
Writer: Catherine Breillat (based on the novel “Pornocratie”)
Actors: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Alexandre Belin, Manuel Taglang