Tabu

Tabu 2012

7.02

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

2012

They Shot the Piano Player

They Shot the Piano Player 2023

6.70

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.

2023

The Ornithologist

The Ornithologist 2016

6.13

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

2016

Mysteries of Lisbon

Mysteries of Lisbon 2010

7.02

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

2010

El Justiciero

El Justiciero 2009

1

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero".

2009

The Last Bath

The Last Bath 2020

5.40

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

2020

Belle Toujours

Belle Toujours 2006

5.90

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her.

2006

The Mask of Satan

The Mask of Satan 1990

4.00

Skiers in Northern Italy unwittingly awaken an ancient witch after removing her mask in a crevasse. Their actions unleash a curse, leading to terrifying consequences.

1990

April Captains

April Captains 2000

6.50

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

2000

Ossos

Ossos 1997

6.82

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

1997

The Uncertainty Principle

The Uncertainty Principle 2002

5.25

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

2002

Will-o’-the-Wisp

Will-o’-the-Wisp 2022

6.30

On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of the two young men devoted to love and desire, and the will to change the status quo.

2022

Blood

Blood 1989

6.89

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.

1989

The Mutants

The Mutants 1998

7.46

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

1998

The Tsugua Diaries

The Tsugua Diaries 2021

5.84

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.

2021

Operation Autumn

Operation Autumn 2012

6.80

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

2012

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America 2019

6.50

Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the legend of the Far West. By giving a face to the underprivileged, from humble cowboys to persecuted minorities, he revealed like no one else the great social divisions that existed and still exist in the United States. More than four decades after his death, what remains of his legacy and humanistic values in the memory of those who love his work?

2019

Alguém Como Eu

Alguém Como Eu 2017

4.86

Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help.

2017

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

How to Draw a Perfect Circle 2009

5.44

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

2009

The Human Surge

The Human Surge 2017

5.80

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

2017