Instituto Português da Arte Cinematográfica e Audiovisual Popular Movie

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanda Duarte

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariya Lipkina

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miou-Miou

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diogo Infante

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Núria Madruga

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquim de Almeida

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joaquim Oliveira

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sérgio Titos

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Afonso Pimentel

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bianca Byington

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Bolito

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Lourenço

A couple in search of a different life, move from the city to the countryside and confront unexpected events without breaking their union.

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Cast: Diogo Infante

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eusebio Poncela

A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diogo Dória