Manoel de Oliveira, Joa£o Rodrigues de Freitas, Nascimento Fernandes
Cast
Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, Antanio Palma
Plot
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos ...
After flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
Antanio Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Maria das Neves, Vasco Santana, Antanio Silva
Plot
This classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
Antanio Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Vasco Santana, Francisco Ribeiro, Leonor Maia
Plot
Francisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
The unlikely love between Luisinha, a humble girl who lives on a small pension in Lisbon, and Daniel, a wealthy aristocrat who decides to fight for the girl who loves against the prejudices of his family.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Portugal, Germany | Portuguese, English
Director
Miguel Gomes
Writer
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Cast
Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortencalio Aquina
Plot
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Portugal | Portuguese, English
Director
Paulo Rocha
Writer
Nuno Bragana§a, Paulo Rocha
Cast
Isabel Ruth, Rui Gomes, Paulo Renato
Plot
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housem...
Geninha and Fortunato are couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them.
Joa£o Cesar Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado
Plot
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite h...
