Portuguese Crime Films
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1. El Contrato (II) (2009)
95 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Peter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
Director: Nicolau Breyner | Stars: Pedro Lima, Cláudia Vieira, Vítor Norte, Sofia Aparício
Votes: 597
2. Ornamento e Crime (2015)
90 min | Crime, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Rodrigo Areias | Stars: Vítor Correia, Tânia Dinis, Djin Sganzerla, António Durães
Votes: 63
3. Tudo Isto É Fado (2004)
102 min | Crime, Romance, Comedy
Director: Luís Galvão Teles | Stars: Ângelo Torres, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, Danton Mello, Carlos Santos
Votes: 169
4. Aqui na Terra (1993)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miguel is a successful economist until his father's death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from ... See full summary »
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Jessica Weiss, Pedro Hestnes, Rita Dias
Votes: 60
5. Corrupção (2007)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Nicolau Breyner, Margarida Vila-Nova, António Pedro Cerdeira, Alexandra Lencastre
Votes: 836
6. A Porta 21 (2015)
93 min | Crime, Mystery
A robbed writer. His masterpiece... disappeared in the hands of a friend. A play that he had kept under lock and key. That same night, he decides to set the record straight: a small ... See full summary »
Director: João Marco | Stars: Pedro Monteiro, Tânia Silva, Pedro Romeiras, Isadora Mateus
Votes: 15
7. Lovely Child (1990)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn't father and doesn't like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Rita Blanco, José Wilker, Lídia Franco, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 103
8. Pulsação Zero (2002)
83 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero) is an action/comedy about 25 year old lovable loser Alex who, when his life hits rock bottom and decides to end it all, shares his dogs euthanasia poison just ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fragata | Stars: Helder Mendes, Adelaide de Sousa, Miguel C., Adriano Carvalho
Votes: 243
9. Um Crime de Luxo (1991)
87 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Poncio Branco is an aggressive businessman, who does everything in his power and betrays everyone if he as to, to be more and more rich and powerful, His wife Bernanda felt betrayed, so she... See full summary »
Director: Artur Semedo | Stars: Artur Semedo, Henrique Viana, Carlos Cunha, Marina Mota
Votes: 12
10. Linha Ténue (2010)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Why start a game when you don't know the rules?
Director: Tiago Dias | Stars: Cristina Carvalho, Tiago Dias, Giovanni Ciet, Vanessa Almeida
11. O Inimigo Sem Rosto (2010)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Director: José Farinha | Stars: José Wallenstein, São José Correia, Paulo Nery, Maria João Bastos
Votes: 15
12. Saudades do futuro (2023)
120 min | Crime
An obsolete and tired assassin, stuck in an endless cycle where past and future merge, gets a new mission from his boss. To kill three targets.
Director: Canuto | Stars: Carlos Centeio, Diamantina da Luz Canuto, Thomas Hornig, João Leonel
13. Desalinhado (2012)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Director: Bruno Santana | Stars: André Matias, Joana Martins, Rute Bastos, Nelson Januário
Votes: 10
14. Kuzz (2000)
64 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: José Pedro Sousa | Stars: Roberto Merino, Pedro Pina, Antônio Coelho, Pedro Ferraz
Votes: 39
15. O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (2007)
98 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
Director: Jorge Paixão da Costa | Stars: Ivo Canelas, António Pedro Cerdeira, Bruna Di Tullio, Rogério Samora
Votes: 449
16. Um Tiro no Escuro (2005)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Director: Leonel Vieira | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Vanessa Machado, Filipe Duarte, Ivo Canelas
Votes: 390
17. Nirvana: A Gangster Odyssey (2014)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Biography, Comedy
A small-time wiseguy teams up with the most delinquent small-time criminals to payback the leader of the gang that betrayed him.
Director: Tiago P. de Carvalho | Stars: Cláudia Neves, Marta Faial, Jani Zhao, Frederico Barata
Votes: 84
18. Sorte Nula (2004)
85 min | Mystery, Crime
Alberto is planning the ultimate romantic escape, but before he can catch the airplane he will endure the creepiest day of his life.
Director: Fernando Fragata | Stars: Helder Mendes, António Feio, Rui Unas, Isabel Figueira
Votes: 1,453
19. Inferno (1999)
95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Leitão | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Nicolau Breyner, Ana Bustorff, Cristina Câmara
Votes: 310
20. Veneno Cura (2008)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Raquel Freire | Stars: Margarida Carvalho, Sofia Marques, Sandra Rosado, Miguel Moreira
Votes: 105
21. Sapatos Pretos (1998)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Ana Bustorff, Vítor Norte, João Reis, Teresa Madruga
Votes: 252
22. Alva (2019)
98 min | Crime, Drama
After committing a crime, Henrique, a man in his thirties, hides in the forest.
Director: Ico Costa | Star: Henrique Bonacho
Votes: 45
23. Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
On the run from a couple of hit-men, young Johnny Fortune escapes from a life in basement poolrooms to become a dancing bear with the strangest Punch and Judy man in the business.
Directors: Ann Guedes, Eduardo Guedes | Stars: Tom Waits, Damon Lowry, Júlia Britton, Isabel Ruth
Votes: 99
24. Bairro (2013)
113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The police tries to stop a gang of criminals responsible for several robberies in Lisbon.
Directors: Jorge Cardoso, Lourenço de Mello, José Manuel Fernandes, Ricardo Inácio | Stars: Maria João Bastos, Paulo Pires, Carloto Cotta, Afonso Pimentel
Votes: 339
25. Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso (2004)
108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A group of friends that meet after some years apart,decide to hunt a treasure.
Director: Luis Ismael | Stars: Jorge Neto, Luis Ismael, J.D. Duarte, João Pires
Votes: 2,030
26. Zona J (1998)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Tó is a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, and falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams to live in Angola, where his parents were born, however the reality the two teens are in makes everything complicated.
Director: Leonel Vieira | Stars: Félix Fontoura, Nuria Madruga, Milton Spencer, Edson Silva
Votes: 996
27. The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012)
Unrated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in... See full summary »
Directors: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata | Stars: Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria João Guerra da Mata
Votes: 566
28. Balas & Bolinhos (2001)
62 min | Comedy, Crime
A group of friends meet and combine a robbery from a gasoline station.
Director: Luis Ismael | Stars: Jorge Neto, Luis Ismael, J.D. Duarte, João Pires
Votes: 1,988
29. Os Imortais (2003)
130 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On ... See full summary »
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Emmanuelle Seigner, Nicolau Breyner, Rogério Samora
Votes: 1,418
30. Amor Impossível (2015)
125 min | Crime, Drama
Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Victoria Guerra, José Mata, Soraia Chaves, Ricardo Pereira
Votes: 432
31. Leviano (2018)
102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the most anticipated interview of the year, sisters Adelaide, Carolina and Julia Paixão come together with their mother Anita - to recount the events that led to one of the most controversial crimes ever committed in Portugal.
Director: Justin Amorim | Stars: Diana Marquês Guerra, Alba Baptista, Mikaela Lupu, Anabela Teixeira
Votes: 343
32. Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo (2012)
129 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Tone, the leader of the gang, returns home after sometime abroad, to try to save his father's life that is on the verge of death, and needs a liver transplant to survive. For this task he needs the help of his gang, once again.
Director: Luis Ismael | Stars: Jorge Neto, Luis Ismael, J.D. Duarte, João Pires
Votes: 2,912
33. Noite Escura (2004)
94 min | Drama, Crime
"Noite Escura" is a disturbing movie about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Fernando Luís, Rita Blanco, Beatriz Batarda, Cleia Almeida
Votes: 613
34. Call Girl (2007)
Unrated | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Maria (Soraia Chaves) a sensual call girl, is hired by Mouros (Joaquim de Almeida) to seduce Meireles (Nicolau Breyner), the Mayor of Vilanova, so that he can authorize a multinational to build a high quality resort. However, Madeira (Ivo Canelas) and Neves (Jose Raposo), PJ police detectives, discover the evidence of corruption and begin to investigate Meireles. Everything becomes even more ... See full summary »
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Soraia Chaves, Ivo Canelas, Nicolau Breyner, Joaquim de Almeida
Votes: 2,405
35. Saint George (2016)
112 min | Crime, Drama
An unemployed boxer turned collection agency employee deals with the deplorable methods they have to use when collecting bad debts.
Director: Marco Martins | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Mariana Nunes, David Semedo, José Raposo
Votes: 2,106
36. Bad Investigate (2018)
120 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent.
Director: Luis Ismael | Stars: Francisco Menezes, Luis Ismael, Enrique Arce, Eric da Silva
Votes: 808
37. Unexpected Confrontation (2019)
81 min | Crime, Drama
When a police detective drives her way to a typical day at work, she soon finds out Reality can be way stranger than the Twilight Zone. This ironic, provocative and yet realistic portrait ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Lobato Macedo | Stars: Luis Lobato Macedo, Carolina Maya, Maria Luca, Valeriu Coipan
Votes: 6
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