João Maria Pinto
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A Shot in the Dark
2005-03-17
A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Assault on the Santa Maria
2010-09-23
Assault on the Santa Maria
Overview: On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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The Miracle According to Salomé
2004-05-13
The Miracle According to Salomé
Overview: Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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Natal 71
1999-01-01
Natal 71
Overview: Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an audiotape illegally recorded by soldiers during the war years, in Mozambique. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide all the conflicts from us and kept us from thinking and recognising the repressive nature of the regime we lived in.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch
2006-11-16
Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch
Overview: Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, a fact that leaves her heir to an incalculable fortune and coveted by all the aristocrats in the region.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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No Trace of Sin
1983-02-11
No Trace of Sin
Overview: A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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O Dez
2010-03-13
O Dez
Overview: A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Your Face Will be the Last
2024-06-06
Your Face Will be the Last
Overview: Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Monkeys Like Becky
1999-01-01
Monkeys Like Becky
Overview: The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals with the everyday life of people with schizophrenia today: behavior and relationships, and treatment for the disease.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Monsanto
2000-02-15
Monsanto
Overview: Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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Guerra do Mirandum
1981-09-09
Guerra do Mirandum
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Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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Bairro
2013-06-26
Bairro
Overview: Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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Gigola
2010-06-06
Gigola
Overview: George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-06
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Kiss Me
2004-11-04
Kiss Me
Overview: This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-04
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Fátima
1997-10-10
Fátima
Overview: 1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Fragile(s)
2007-06-20
Fragile(s)
Overview: Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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Lourdes
2000-05-29
Lourdes
Overview: The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
2014-12-17
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Overview: At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits who cross his path learn this to their own cost. But, unfortunately, no one is perfect... As soon as he catches a cold, Benoît loses his extraordinary physical abilities. Hence he never takes off the woollen scarf wrapped around his neck. Brave and very determined, he doesn't hesitate a second to take action to defend his friends. So, when Poilonez - a well known crook - and his gang decide to focus on Mr. Dussiflard, his taxi driver friend, Benoît does all that he can to thwart his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
2003-09-12
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Overview: One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
2016-08-25
Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
Overview: A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Quarta Divisão
2013-02-28
Quarta Divisão
Overview: The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Amo-te Teresa
2000-01-11
Amo-te Teresa
Overview: Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. Immediately, a strong attraction forms between Teresa and Miguel, a friend of her oldest son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-11
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Jacinta
2017-04-13
Jacinta
Overview: The story of Jacinta, one of the three children involved in the Marian apparition reported in 1917 at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-13
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Longwave
2013-08-11
Longwave
Overview: It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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Ruy Blas
2002-10-27
Ruy Blas
Overview: Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-27
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Requiem
1998-06-03
Requiem
Overview: What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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Aniversário
2000-10-19
Aniversário
Overview: The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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The Jew
1996-01-16
The Jew
Overview: The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-16
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Fatima
2020-08-13
Fatima
Overview: In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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Amor Perdido
2000-12-24
Amor Perdido
Overview: A story about two people (Clara and Tó), from different economic backgrounds, who love each other, but whose love is not accepted by everyone, especially by the father of Clara, who will do everything he can to stop their love. Things go even worse when Clara becomes pregnant.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-12-24
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A Borboleta na Gaiola
1987-01-01
A Borboleta na Gaiola
Overview: "The Butterfly in the Cage" is a novel by Luís Filipe Costa adapted to film by the author, it follows the daily lives of several people connected to newspapers, television, film and theater in Lisbon, in the days leading up to the revolution of 25 April 1974.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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A Palavra Mágica
2024-09-16
A Palavra Mágica
Overview: The first time you hear it, it doesn't seem like a big deal. The word is strange and the tone in which it was used could be offensive. In the village the word soon spreads and as it passes from mouth to mouth it becomes heavier and takes on a markedly offensive character. As the village gets angrier, all the small misunderstandings in everyday life become serious business. There is only one solution: exposing the cases and their origin - the word barely heard and poorly said - which, today, in the village, is the most devastating offense that can be thrown at our greatest enemy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-16
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