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Hulu
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5.2
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2.5
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Amelia’s Children (2024)
When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.
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44
6.7
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/10/
80
/1/
3.7
/5042/
92
/24/
76
/5/

Magellan (2025)
In the 16th century, young and ambitious Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.
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33
6.7
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/35/
59
/27/
3.5
/2327/

Alma Viva (2022)
Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.
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28
6.8
/763/
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/25/
63
/23/
3.5
/1230/

Mosquito (2020)
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.
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15
6.4
/382/
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/4/
62
/14/
3.4
/609/

Historic Centre (2012)
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
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6.4
/29/
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/2/
50
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O Pio dos Mochos (2023)
Miranda do Corvo, 1933. Tomé, a young worker haunted by guilt over his betrayal, is chosen by his colleagues for an important mission in the union's struggle against the Estado Novo. Faced with this moral challenge, he confronts not only the real dangers of police repression, but also his own demons.
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5.2
/15/

A Ceia (2013)
A man suffers from amnesia after an accident.
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7.4
/23/

Quem é o Pai do Menino Jesus? (2010)
Madalena is a seven-year-old girl who has to draw the nativity scene. When she lists the characters in the biblical scene, she is confronted with a surprise: God, the father of Jesus, is not included in the scene. The girl is reluctant to accept this new information, but after considering the facts, she eventually comes to a curious conclusion.
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6.4
/35/
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A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor (2024)
A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul Brandão.
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5.8
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53
/3/
3.2
/263/

A Sibila (2023)
In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
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6.8
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50
/1/
3.2
/325/

Ubu (2023)
Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and coward character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s play, a political satire that, cyclically, turns to the reality of world politics.
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5.5
/50/
40
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Dialogues After the End (2023)
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
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8.8
/18/
100
/1/

Pena Fria (2014)
A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
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6.6
/8/

Light Was a Break (2024)
One sleepless night, Emília recalls a childhood trauma. Amidst the burning memories, she visits her parents, her sister, Manuel and all the places of her solitude.
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78
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7.8
/11/
3.6
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Broken Windows (2012)
Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.
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7.4
/15/
85
/2/

Por Diabos (2016)
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3.8
/7/
40
/1/

Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse (2009)
Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.
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6.0
/6/

Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real (2019)
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.
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7.2
/22/

The Scoundrel (2012)
The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.
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77
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5.4
/15/
Popcorn
100
/16/

The Keeper (2015)
Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works continuously since he has nowhere to live. Aurora passes by him every morning and end of the day. One day she is brave enough to talk to him.
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6.4
/45/
80
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90
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The Gravedigger (2012)
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.
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5.3
/8/

Arca D'Água (2009)
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.
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4.4
/28/
10
/2/

Down by Life (2020)
A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.
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63
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6.2
/297/
68
/5/
61
/9/

Uma Vida Sublime (2018)
Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?
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6.1
/44/
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/1/
60
/1/
Popcorn
50
/6/

Carga (2017)
In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal with the adversities of being left behind.
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3.6
/18/

Ubi Sunt (2016)
Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical) Hybrid and eclectic project, it is the outcome of a audiovisual research residency of humam and urban exploration of an expanding city. Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before us?". Reflective essay on mortality and life's transience, it emerges from that dialectic, of a and episodic and fragmented structure with a choreographed cinematography; where the memory intersects the contemporary.
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7.1
/72/
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Augur (2018)
During a harsh winter, a river by the house of two cousins freezes over. In the cold wind, their relationship grows bitter, reaching its limits.
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6.0
/230/
52
/8/
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Hay Road (2012)
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.
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66
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6.9
/330/
67
/13/
64
/5/

Momentos (2010)
A homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases inside. Meanwhile the man tries to understand what is going on.
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6.9
/12/

Before the Mountains (2020)
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
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4.8
/118/
40
/1/
100
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Magnetick Pathways (2019)
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
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5.8
/151/
35
/5/
3.2
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The Nothingness Club (2023)
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.
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4.8
/18/
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A Caverna (2015)
A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.
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6.7
/41/
62
/2/

The Amazed Spectator (2016)
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
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6.1
/9/

O dia em que as cartas pararam (2017)
In the 1960s, António, an agent of the PIDE, is assigned to follow Aurora to Paris, a young woman suspected of oppositionism. It is May 1968, and during the student revolt, the two young people fall in love. Back in Porto, their forbidden passion ends abruptly. For decades, António writes Aurora letters that she keeps unopened. When the correspondence is unexpectedly interrupted, both give up on life. Based on the director's novel entitled "A Casa Azul" (The Blue House).
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5.9
/70/
85
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Ornament and Crime (2015)
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
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5.9
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/9/
3.2
/454/
70
/2/

3x3D (2013)
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
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6.5
/97/
60
/5/
70
/3/

Surdine (2020)
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
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Hoopla
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5.6
/40/
80
/2/

Lovers on Borders (2017)
Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.
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Memórias do Cárcere (2026)
Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860, he in October of the same year, after an adventurous escape from justice through the lands of the North.
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A Santa Joana dos Matadouros (2024)
Inspired by the work of Bertolt Brecht and filmed in Porto's former industrial slaughterhouse, A Santa Joana dos Matadouros is a meta-cinematic essay about the labor market in times of economic crisis in Europe. The film explores the possibilities of cinema in its relationship with theater and brings together a cast of professional actors, amateurs, renowned artists from various disciplines, and a group of unemployed residents of Vale de Campanhã.
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Pródigo (2018)
Based on the tale of the Prodigal Son, 'Prodigal' is a film about the relationship about father and son, and a simple gesture of love. Shot on 16mm in a single location.
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Luana (2018)
Luana plays between trains and swings while she waits for her father on the other side of the line.
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De Castigo (2010)
Many years after having been locked in the basement by his father, Samuel believes he is still grounded.


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