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Kanopy
74
6.8
/1991/
61
/27/
66
/44/
3.7
/1493/
96
/55/
68
/17/
88
/21/

I’m Going Home (2001)
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
poster
Kanopy
71
6.7
/2976/
64
/33/
62
/67/
3.7
/2325/
72
/29/
72
/42/
72
/23/

Time Regained (1999)
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
poster
67
6.8
/1691/
61
/33/
64
/44/
3.7
/2001/
70
/10/
58
/8/

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
poster
67
54
6.5
/2270/
62
/28/
66
/46/
3.7
/1918/
76
/25/
52
/41/
77
/14/

A Talking Picture (2003)
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
poster
76
51
7.3
/1704/
68
/28/
75
/40/
4.1
/3473/
86
/7/
77
/11/

Abraham's Valley (1993)
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
poster
Criterion Channel
62
50
6.0
/2355/
59
/74/
56
/63/
3.7
/8814/
79
/14/
48
/29/

The Captive (2000)
A handsome, idle, and hopeless neurotic lives in a labyrinthine, half-renovated Paris flat with his ailing grandmother, a faithful family servant, and Ariane Rey, his willing captive, the object of his obsessive jealousy and unquenchable desire.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
48
6.5
/5867/
63
/50/
55
/53/
3.2
/1025/
75
/139/

I Am Dina (2002)
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
44
6.8
/1906/
65
/42/
67
/45/
3.7
/5656/
62
/18/

Ossos (1997)
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.
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Kanopy
42
40
4.9
/8224/
51
/261/
44
/169/
2.6
/7650/
17
/42/
47
/266/
35
/19/

Ma mère (2004)
After his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.
poster
55
39
6.0
/2426/
53
/38/
51
/51/
3.2
/843/
54
/13/
46
/25/
59
/12/

L'ennui (1998)
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
poster
59
38
6.1
/1865/
67
/28/
54
/27/
3.2
/598/
63
/40/
44
/39/
64
/16/

Changing Times (2004)
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
poster
68
34
7.1
/842/
60
/22/
72
/18/
3.8
/1186/
62

The Spousals of God (1999)
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
34
5.9
/757/
60
/10/
53
/40/
3.2
/506/
75
/8/
50
/9/
66
/12/

The New Eve (1999)
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a moment of depression she runs into a complete stranger, Alexis, whom she instantly falls in love with. Alexis, alas, is married, with two children, and works for the Socialist Party. None of this is going to deter Camille though…
poster
54
33
5.6
/2137/
57
/39/
57
/53/
3.2
/1644/
38
/11/

Fidelity (2000)
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
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Fandor
66
33
6.9
/1166/
65
/29/
69
/24/
3.8
/3778/
55
/7/

Casa de Lava (1995)
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
33
4.9
/33330/
56
/985/
53
/676/
2.0
/9850/
6
/87/
36
/1158/
18
/28/
cc age 17+

Boat Trip (2002)
Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.
poster
68
31
7.1
/726/
57
/11/
68
/26/
3.9
/1425/

Few of Us (1996)
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
poster
60
31
6.4
/997/
54
/10/
65
/30/
3.5
/1033/
67
/6/
43
/5/

Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
poster
70
31
7.0
/887/
68
/22/
66
/17/
3.8
/1229/
67
/6/
77
/5/

Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
poster
58
29
6.0
/1191/
53
/34/
45
/28/
3.3
/444/
66
/46/

The Last Day (2004)
At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.
poster
50
28
5.2
/1901/
56
/31/
48
/28/
3.0
/284/
47
/17/
39
/118/

A Few Days in September (2006)
1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on 11 September 2001.
poster
72
27
7.2
/1067/
73
/20/
63
/26/
3.9
/1485/
74
/1/

No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
poster
72
27
7.0
/687/
64
/9/
70
/28/
4.0
/1512/
80
/1/

The House (1997)
A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetual dream: that of a young man who no longer wants to wake up, immersed as he is in this world of fascinating spectres.
poster
67
25
6.6
/809/
64
/9/
58
/16/
3.6
/592/
63
/8/
81
/7/

That Day (2003)
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
poster
50
25
5.7
/925/
58
/16/
46
/29/
3.2
/378/
46
/13/
28
/9/
53
/8/

It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.
poster
69
24
6.8
/814/
69
/11/
72
/16/
4.0
/1409/
57
/1/

Come and Go (2003)
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
poster
51
23
5.9
/1126/
56
/18/
52
/27/
3.5
/806/
38
/8/
35
/7/

The Convent (1995)
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
19
4.8
/1771/
53
/34/
46
/24/
2.9
/313/
26
/52/

Blast (2004)
Former Navy SEAL Lamont Dixon thought he left his fighting days behind when he became a tugboat captain assigned to tow an offshore oil rig. But calm waters begin to stir as an offshore drilling protest turns into a terrorist hijacking. When the hijackers reveal part of their elaborate scheme, Dixon suspects foul play. With the help of FBI Agent Lisa Reed coordinating the counter-attack from shore, it's sink or swim as Dixon and Reed try to save the hostages, but can they diffuse the deadly plan before it's too late?
poster
77
17
7.2
/409/
61
/6/
75
/11/
4.0
/1118/
100
/1/

Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
poster
71
17
7.0
/585/
69
/11/
68
/18/
3.6
/724/
80
/2/

The Cannibals (1988)
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger, and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
poster
70
16
7.0
/384/
61
/6/
77
/17/
3.6
/401/

Freedom (2000)
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
poster
59
16
6.3
/845/
60
/16/
59
/14/
3.5
/874/
46
/3/

The Letter (1999)
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
poster
61
14
6.3
/404/
50
/3/
63
/13/
3.5
/555/

Party (1996)
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa. The intriguing guests are an older unmarried couple, the philosophical and observant Irene, and Michel, a roué. While Rogério and Irene talk, Michel and Leonor go down to the sea. The conversations upset Rogério and capture Leonor's imagination. Five years later, the four dine at the villa. Michel and Leonor again leave the other two. Intentions and undercurrents are subtle. One of the four proves strong, one weak, and two must choose. Wind and rain bring down the curtain on both acts.
poster
66
14
6.7
/652/
64
/20/
57
/15/
3.5
/502/
75
/4/

In the Darkness of the Night (2004)
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
poster
61
13
6.0
/603/
65
/14/
61
/20/
3.4
/293/
53
/4/

Trance (2006)
Sonia, a girl from St. Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in Western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.
poster
62
12
6.0
/330/
73
/3/
47
/11/
3.5
/616/

Deux (2002)
After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
poster
71
12
7.0
/430/
60
/11/
64
/8/
3.7
/565/
Popcorn
92
/3/

Inquietude (1998)
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.
poster
55
11
5.2
/247/
65
/10/
43
/20/
3.1
/351/
53
/9/

This Is My Body (2001)
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
poster
64
11
6.7
/239/
58
/5/
60
/10/
3.6
/492/

Day of Despair (1992)
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
poster
59
11
6.0
/292/
48
/7/
62
/10/
3.3
/534/

Winter's Child (1989)
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.
poster
58
10
6.7
/373/
35
/4/
64
/10/
3.4
/314/

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional (1993)
Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...
poster
68
9
6.9
/442/
64
/9/
68
/11/
3.5
/298/
73
/1/

Blind Man's Bluff (1994)
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
poster
64
8
6.6
/372/
61
/8/
52
/12/
3.5
/295/
73
/1/

Seven Invisible Men (2005)
A group of drop-outs, losers and criminals are travelling in a stolen Mercedes seemingly aimlessly along numerous derelict houses and impassable roads to eventually end up on an old decaying state farm in Crimea, the southern tip of the former Soviet Union, where the mother, wife and daughter of one of them live. The men kill time with smoking, drinking and staring in front of them, but an undercurrent tension is brewing. On the last night they have a party that is equally destructive as their life
poster
73
8
6.8
/225/
67
/4/
76
/11/
3.6
/244/
86
/1/

Requiem (1998)
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
poster
42
7
4.6
/341/
63
/9/
47
/17/
14
/2/

Akoibon (2005)
A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.
poster
?
5.4
/13/
10
/1/
26
/3/

Villa Mauresque (1993)
Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer fallen and suicidal.
poster
?
6.2
/27/
20
/1/

Electroménager (2001)
Wanting to prove to his wife that he is cured after his brief stay in a psychiatric hospital, John insists on giving her a microwave oven.
poster
50
?
6.2
/150/
35
/4/
53
/8/

The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1992)
Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.


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