The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that’s short lived because his female boss makes him her lover.Read More »
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Fernando Matos Silva – O Mal-Amado (1974)
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Eduardo Brito – A Sibila (2022)
2021-2030DramaEduardo BritoPortugalThe adaptation of the eponymous novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís portrays the relationship between a young writer and her aunt, vibrant characters inspired by real people, living in the northern Portuguese countryside in the mid-20th century.Read More »
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Raoul Ruiz – Mistérios de Lisboa AKA Mysteries of Lisbon [TV version] (2010)
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Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.Read More » -
Miguel Gomes – Entretanto (1999)
Miguel Gomes1991-2000MusicalPortugalShort FilmThree youths, an androgynous girl and two boys, circle around each other in love: during rugby training, at a pool party and on the beach. Three-way kisses, mean words and half-serious scuffles. Surreal snapshots almost without words, accompanied by the Kinks and Doris Day.Read More »
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Constantino Esteves – Rapazes de Táxis (1965)
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João and Jaime are joyful taxi drivers. The two fall in love with various women. Meanwhile the company they work for is managed by the widow Alexandrina. Her son, Raul, steals the business safe to pay a game debt. When the disappearance of the money is noticed, Raul puts the blame on João. Jaime does all he can to save his friend’s honor, forcing Raul to admit his fault.Read More » -
Hugo Vieira da Silva – Body Rice (2006)
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Since the 1980’s German institutions have sent adolescents to Southern Portugal to participate in experimental projects of social re-education, and our main character, Katrin, arrives in the Alentejo region of Portugal unable to establish a relationship with her new environment. The situation worsens because of the sheer emptiness of the region, the social desertification of Alentejo. Katrin plans to create a refuge in the middle of nowhere, with Julia and Pedro: in a physical and mental desert.Read More » -
João Botelho – Tempos Difíceis AKA Hard Times (1988)
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Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth & extreme poverty mingle, so do culture, ignorance, perversion & ignorance. Griffith’s channelled via Júlia Britton.Read More » -
Pedro Neves Marques – Tornar-se um Homem na Idade Média AKA Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022)
2021-2030DramaPedro Neves MarquesPortugalShort FilmMirene 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.Read More »
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João Botelho – A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA AKA The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States (2003)
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In this comic political farce, the protagonist thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House! Surrounded by female supporters, she proclaims’I am the President of the U.S.A., I can do whatever I want.’ She locks her mother in the basement and on her birthday, throws a huge party in honor of her re-election, while making plans to control the entire world. …The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States ( A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA )Read More »