Instituto Português da Arte Cinematográfica e Audiovisual Film Populer

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...

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Marcello Mastroianni

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.

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Reginaldo Faria

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...

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Afonso Pimentel

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

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Mariya Lipkina

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

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Vanda Duarte

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...

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Isabel Ruth

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

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Luís Miguel Cintra

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and...

Aliran: Comedy

Pemeran: Jeanne Balibar

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has...

Aliran: Comedy

Pemeran: Hugues Quester

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...

Aliran: Comedy

Pemeran: Joaquim Oliveira

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...

Aliran: Crime

Pemeran: 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...

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Joaquim de Almeida

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Canto e Castro

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...

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Sérgio Titos

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

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Miou-Miou

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Vítor Norte

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

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: Diogo Infante

A dream girl can cause a lot of insomnia. That's what happens to Daniel Bricks, a young british engineer, working temporarily at the construction...

Aliran: Comedy

Pemeran: Diogo Infante

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

Aliran: Drama

Pemeran: João Lourenço

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

Aliran: Documentary

Pemeran: Diogo Dória