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see all genres ›Following a 1930s-'40s "golden age," Portugal's film industry found new life in the Cinema Novo wave of the 1960s. Its most famous director Manoel de Oliveira has had a career stretching through both periods to today, continuing to inspire emerging new talents.
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Dead Man's Memories
Along a stretch of the Portuguese coast, a man's body is found. Police detective Pinto (Miguel Guilherme) then finds a tantalizing clue: a video camera in a car parked nearby with a tape of a young woman (Sylvie Testud) who was unaware she was being filmed. Pinto tracks down the woman and questions her but...Start your free trial to watch
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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Adapted from a century novella by Eça de Queiroz, Manoel de Oliveira's exquisite ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL is the story of an ill-fated romance between a young accountant and a mysterious woman he spies through his window.Start your free trial to watch
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Fados
FADOS completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura. Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave of modern faudistas, he ingeniously deploys mirrors, back...Start your free trial to watch
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I'll See You in My Dreams
The most expensive short film ever produced in Portugal also happens to be a two-fisted Cinemascope zombie epic that proved to be so popular that it screened in front of EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING's Portuguese theatrical release. I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS has been an audience favorite virtually everywhere.Start your free trial to watch
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Ne change rien
One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French actress-turned-singer Jeanne Balibar, a transfixing, cigarette-smoking chanteuse with an intense devotion to her craft. Photographed in shimmering black-and-white and featuring a soundtrack...Start your free trial to watch
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Our Beloved Month of August
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer and make babies. OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST is an intoxicating blend of...Start your free trial to watch
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7915km
A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye (the final year of the race), 7915KM undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa’s present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. 7915KM demonstrates the extent of this...Start your free trial to watch
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The Strange Case of Angelica
A beguiling film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA is a magical tale of a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have (except in his dreams). Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young...Start your free trial to watch
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A Talking Picture
Effortlessly gliding from graceful travelogue to playful star-driven caprice to trenchant cautionary fable, A TALKING PICTURE is "a majestic and profound work by one of the greatest of all living filmmakers" (Chicago Tribune). Writer-director Manoel de Oliveira (I’M GOING HOME) has created a valedictory...Start your free trial to watch