Portugal Movies

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on...

Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the...

“Telsche” is a 2D short animation film that explores memory, loss, and love. It is about the journey that one girl takes to remember...

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and...

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

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...

A look at the high-octane global live music industry and the quiet man at its center, featuring interviews, performances and appearances by a who's...

Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people...

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only...

A five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado.

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

The bride to be is about to choose her wedding dress... a mother torn between future stability and a past she is unable to let go. What happens when...

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose...

Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. “What now? Remind Me” is the notebook of a year of clinical...