João Pedro Bénard
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Hotel Royal
2021-07-14
Hotel Royal
Overview: 'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain unknown', says the temporary Chambermaid in a large seaside hotel, which, unable to communicate, lives through a rigid methodology of analysis of the exterior and a ritualised quotidian. Until the uncontrollable comes to disrupts this dynamic. Hotel Royal is fragmented and incomplete mosaic of contemporary societies. It could be dubbed a film about the horrors of the soul, about voyeurs or simply about misfits.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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A Woman's Revenge
2012-03-29
A Woman's Revenge
Overview: Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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The Face You Deserve
2005-03-23
The Face You Deserve
Overview: Francisco, 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 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-23
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Alfama
2009-08-11
Alfama
Overview: A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too. All this exists / All this is sad / All this is fado.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-11
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Worth Your Weight in Gold
2022-07-14
Worth Your Weight in Gold
Overview: Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-14
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João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
2015-10-08
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Overview: Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Grand Tour
2024-11-27
Grand Tour
Overview: In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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Banzo
2024-12-25
Banzo
Overview: 1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Sombras Brancas
2023-04-20
Sombras Brancas
Overview: At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
1990-10-22
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Overview: Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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Recollections of the Yellow House
1989-10-12
Recollections of the Yellow House
Overview: Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
2015-07-29
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Overview: In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-29
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Coup de Grâce
2017-02-10
Coup de Grâce
Overview: A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it as there is so much to do, but he finally concedes. The next day his daughter calls on him, a visit he no longer counted on. They spend the day with one another. The longer they are together, and the later the night gets, the more absurd the situations and moments they experience become.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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Vanity
2004-01-01
Vanity
Overview: Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director's world – in a story about a depressed fashion designer who falls in love with the daughter of one her tailors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Ramiro
2018-03-01
Ramiro
Overview: Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his faithful drinking companions and his neighbors: a pregnant teenager and her grandmother recovering from a stroke. He would gladly continue living this quiet and somewhat anachronistic routine if events worthy of a soap opera did not invade his bubble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Rage
2018-10-31
Rage
Overview: Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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Mariphasa
2017-07-09
Mariphasa
Overview: Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything threatens to crack.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-07-09
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The Conquest of Faro
2005-01-01
The Conquest of Faro
Overview: Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark a conversation on the city’s history, unfolding the tales of King Afonso III, who betrays his wife, and of a Moorish woman, who betrays her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Dead Man's Memories
2003-07-06
Dead Man's Memories
Overview: A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-07-06
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4 Hearts
2009-08-20
4 Hearts
Overview: Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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Patrick
2019-09-21
Patrick
Overview: Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You
2015-10-25
I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You
Overview: "In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I chose working with amateur actors and non-actors in both cities, so their own life stories and experiences could be in the film. I did the other way round from the writer. He found these people and made them characters of his book. I looked for people who had similar stories to those described in the book, and made them characters of my film. When I read the book, I was seduced by its "false documentary" characteristic. The book was all written as if it was the transcription of an oral interview the writer had done in Lisbon. I decided to keep this narrative in the film, by a narration with the main character talking to the camera. It's a film about emigration. About dreams and disappointments," says Barahona
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-25
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Journey to Portugal
2011-06-16
Journey to Portugal
Overview: Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interrogation, without any explanations. All this occurs because the authorities suspect that something illegal should be behind her trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-16
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River of Gold
1998-05-18
River of Gold
Overview: Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat operator Antonio. Not long after their union, she becomes intensely jealous of Antonio's fondness for their winsome goddaughter, Joana, and insinuates herself into a relationship brewing between Joana and a mystical gypsy gold salesman. Soon, tempers are flaring, mystical secrets are being revealed and death is hovering over the central characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-05-18
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A True and Faithful Account
1989-06-22
A True and Faithful Account
Overview: The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
2013-09-10
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
Overview: 1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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Querença
2004-01-01
Querença
Overview: In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriously anticipated the fall of the USSR. Guida has only 12 days to complete the mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Beyond the Mountains
2017-02-02
Beyond the Mountains
Overview: In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories for his new documentary. One day, the appearance of a man riding a donkey changes his future.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-02
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Far From Amazónia
2017-07-01
Far From Amazónia
Overview: In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from his Philosophical Journey are the artifacts belonging the tribes he studied and the animals and plants he brought over to Portugal, evoking a distant Amazonia and an expedition that went on for nine years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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From Now On
2008-01-01
From Now On
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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