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Cast António Sequeira Lopes · Cristina Hauser · Elsa Wallencamp · Antonio Costa

Synopsis TV miniseries (1979). 6 episodes. A story set in the beginning of the XIX century about a doomed love between to people from different worlds and its impact in their lives.

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Cast Manoel de Oliveira · Maria Isabel de Oliveira · Diogo Dória · Teresa Madruga

Synopsis A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira's life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Maria Amélia Matta · Jorge Rolla · Varela Silva · Gloria de Matos

Synopsis Benilde, the play's eccentric heroine, turns up unexpectedly pregnant but insists she has never been with a man. Her devout family and the curious townsfolk naturally fixate on immaculate conception.

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Cast Manuela de Freitas · Maria de Saisset · Bárbara Vieira · Alberto Inácio

Synopsis Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.

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Cast Teresa Menezes · Diogo Dória · Mario Barroso · Manuela de Freitas

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Cast Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Cecile Sanz de Alba · Rui de Carvalho

Synopsis Ema realises that she has the power to make things happen. Although she is married she takes three lovers, but all she gains is disillusionment...

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Cast Nicolau Nunes da Silva · Ermelinda Pires · Maria Madalena · Amélia Chaves

Synopsis Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text.

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Cast Nascimento Fernandes · Fernanda Matos · Horácio Silva · Antonio Santos

Synopsis One of the earliest features by Portugal's most renowned director, it was also one of De Oliveira's best-known works for many years. Using the actual children of the area, the film follows the adventures of street urchins growing up in...

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Synopsis Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills - traditional or industrial ones -, manipulation of the...

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Cast Teresa Madruga · Mario Barroso · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória

Synopsis Portrait of the last years of the XIX century's Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco

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Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória · Miguel Guilherme · Luís Lucas

Synopsis Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at...

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Cast Antonio Cruz

Synopsis A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing.

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Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jean-Yves Gautier · Leonor Silveira · Diogo Dória

Synopsis Voyage To The Beginning Of The World brings together 90-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni, in what would be his last film. Playing a filmmaker clearly based on Oliveira, Mastroianni takes three actor friends on...

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Synopsis A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Oporto.

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Cast Agustina Bessa-Luís · María de Medeiros · Jorge Trêpa · Leonor Silveira

Synopsis Nostalgic documentary by the nestor of (Portuguese) cinema abut his birthplace Porto with music, photos, historic pictures and acted memories of childhood. Erudite, charming film. When Oporto shared cultural capital of Europe status with Rotterdam in 2001, producer Paulo Branco...

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Cast Ricardo Trepa · Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Duarte de Almeida

Synopsis Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich...

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Cast António Rodrigues Sousa · João Rocha Almeida · Albino Freitas · Manuel De Sa

Synopsis José and Roberto are friends, and they decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away,...

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Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Patricia Barzyk · Anne Consigny · Jean-Pierre Bernard

Synopsis During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten...

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Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Michael Lonsdale · Claudia Cardinale · Jeanne Moreau · Leonor Silveira

Synopsis Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.