Paulo Matos

'Non', ou a Vã Glória de Mandar

Manoel de Oliveira

Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.

Chasing Life

Fernando Fragata

Adriano Carvalho, Olavo Bilac

Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero) is an action/comedy about 25 year old lovable loser Alex who, when his life hits rock bottom and decides to end it all, shares his dogs euthanasia poison just moments before a dramatic turn of events sends him hilariously and desperately seeking the antidote which he must find within 4 hours or die.

News from the Good Lord

Didier Le Pêcheur

Marie Trintignant, Maria de Medeiros

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.

The Divine Comedy

Manoel de Oliveira

Maria de Medeiros, Miguel Guilherme

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.

Tarântula

Aly Muritiba, Marja Calafange

Malu Zanetti Domingues, Luma Domingues Zanetti

In a distant mansion lives a religious and apparently incomplete family: a mother and her two daughters. Until the day which a new disturbing member comes to put things in their place.

Palavra e Utopia

Manoel de Oliveira

Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

Je m'appelle Bernadette

Jean Sagols

Katia Cuq, Michel Aumont

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

Fuga

Luís Filipe Costa

Diogo Infante, Rogério Jacques

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.

The Strange Case of Angelica

Manoel de Oliveira

Pilar López de Ayala, Leonor Silveira

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.

Une villa pour deux

Charlotte Brändström

Pierre Arditi, Bernard Le Coq

After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with him in his apartment in Paris.One year has passed and Marion is still living in the apartment.Daniel is now convincing his mother to go to live in a nice villa (that exists only in the pictures) and has contracted François Ferardini, a real estate entrepreneur for the last construction works.When he goes to see the villa,nothing has be done, it's a real disaster.Besides François tells him a lot of stories about the delay of the construction.What will Daniel do ?

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Manoel de Oliveira

Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein

Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job as a book keeper at his Uncle Francisco's shop in Lisbon he falls madly in love with a young blonde, who lives across the road. No sooner does he meet her than he straightaway wants to marry her. His uncle, totally opposed to the match, fires him and kicks him out of the house. Macário departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle’s approval to marry his beloved, he discovers the “singularity” of his fiancée’s character.

No Dia dos Meus Anos

João Botelho

Jessica Weiss, João Lagarto

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

A Maldição do Marialva

António de Macedo

Lídia Franco, Carlos Daniel

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

O Último Verão

Lourenço Mello

Rita Martins, Tiago Barroso

To celebrate the end of another college year, three friends decide to have an adventurous night of summer. But things don't go according to plan.

Les fleurs du mal

Jean-Pierre Rawson

Antoine Duléry, Jean-Marie Lemaire

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems in one slim volume, entitled Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil). A perfectionist to the extreme, he struggled with every word of those few poems for many years before he consented to see them published. When he did, six of them were condemned by the state censors as obscene. It was surely a powerful blow to him to have such a significant part of his life's work so rudely suppressed. This courtroom drama follows him at the 1857 trial at which he defended his works. The filmmaker has chosen to symbolically re-enact certain poems about the love of a woman as they are being read for the court. It is easy to imagine that, as was certainly the case for the trial of Oscar Wilde in England, this courtroom trial was a form of punishment for his publicly dissolute lifestyle.

Os Últimos Dias

Francisco Manuel Sousa

Joana Belo, Helena Prata