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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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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...Watch Movie
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The Ambassador
This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of gonzo journalism from international provocateur Mads Brügger (filmmaker of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner RED CHAPEL) rips the corroded lid off the global scheme of political corruption and exploitation happening in one of the most dangerous places on...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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I'm Going Home
Warm, funny, humane and ultimately heartrending, the film is a remarkable and supremely eloquent statement by a magnificent director. Gilbert Valence is a successful theater actor appearing in Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King." He soon learns that his wife, daughter and son-in-law have been killed...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. Following a...Watch Movie
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Oporto of My Childhood
With the freedom of inspiration and the rigor of writing that are his trademarks, Manoel de Oliveira returns to Oporto, the city of his birth. The Oporto of this childhood is a city laden with history, a city of artists and thinkers. And, as in a spiral movement, the film...Watch Movie
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Agnes Varda: From Here to There
The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's masterful THE BEACHES OF AGNES, FROM HERE TO THERE is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the indefatigable filmmaker's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the...Watch Movie
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Fish Tail
Rabo de Peixe (literally translated as 'fish tail') is the name of a village in the Azores that is home to the largest collection of artisanal fisheries on the whole archipelago. The residents, mostly fishermen and their families, have relied on these waters for generations. FISH TAIL is a...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel MYSTERIES OF LISBON (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated...Watch Movie
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What Now? Remind Me
Joaquim Pinto has been an instrumental figure in Portuguese cinema for over thirty years, whether directing his own films, as producer or sound designer for renowned filmmakers such as Raul Ruiz, Manoel de Oliveira and Joao Cesar Monteiro. In his newest film, WHAT NOW? REMIND...Watch Movie
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Where I Grow Old
Francisca is a young Portuguese woman who's been living in Brazil for a year. At her mother's behest, she welcomes Teresa - a fellow citizen she'd lost contact with - into her home. While Teresa is enthralled discovering Belo Horizonte, where she means to settle and escape the...Watch Movie
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Sangue do meu sangue
Márcia is a single mother with two grown-up children who works as a cook and shares her home in a social housing estate with her sister Ivete, a hairdresser. One day, Cláudia, her daughter, a student nurse who also works as a supermarket cashier, tells her that she has fallen...Watch Movie
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Centro Historico
Commissioned to promote the sleepy Portuguese city of Guimarães as a 2012 European Capital of Culture, this omnibus curio brings together an illustrious quartet of international cinema auteurs and invites them to roam through picturesque town squares, abandoned industrial...Watch Movie
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Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Cabral was the leader of the Liberation Movement of Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau and the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC). He was born in Guinea in 1924 and assassinated in Conakry in 1973. Regarded as a true icon of African...Watch Movie
