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1. Hell, or Pool Keeping (2011)
20 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
You can think of swimming pools, shinny wet grass, maybe heat and sex. There is no subway, no train station. You take three buses if you don't have a car. You can live well there. Probably nothing else comes to mind.
Director: Carlos Conceição | Stars: Ricardo de Sá, Maria Albergaria, Maria Leite, Martim Barbeiro
Votes: 188
2. Os Verdes Anos (1963)
91 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado, Paulo Renato
Votes: 944
3. The Elusive Corporal (1962)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, War
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich
Votes: 1,040
4. Francisca (1981)
166 min | Biography, Drama
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso, Francisco Brás
Votes: 611
5. Rasganço (2001)
93 min | Drama
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Director: Raquel Freire | Stars: Ricardo Aibéo, Ana Teresa Carvalhosa, Isabel Ruth, Paula Marques
Votes: 232
6. The Satin Slipper (1985)
410 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Anne Gautier
Votes: 190
7. Carne (2010)
20 min | Short, Drama
After escaping Jesus Christ's jealous rage, a young nun lurks through the dark alleys and the bars like a vampire. Doomed to loneliness, all she wants is a man. And who can this Man be? "I ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Conceição | Stars: Carloto Cotta, Ricardo de Sá, Anabela Moreira, Eduardo Moreira
Votes: 95
8. Change of Life (1966)
94 min | Drama
After a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Isabel Ruth, Maria Barroso, João Guedes
Votes: 452
9. Cinématon (1972– )
Documentary
Stars: Gérard Courant, Diana Lui, Joseph Morder, Célestine Roussel
Votes: 14
10. Cinéma, de notre temps (1989– )
Documentary
"Cinema of Our Time" is a documentary series about contemporary filmmakers from around the world, created by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe, as a follow-up to the acclaimed initial series "Filmmakers of Our Time" (1964-1972).
Stars: Jean-Claude Dauphin, André S. Labarthe, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean Douchet
Votes: 193
11. Island of Loves (1982)
170 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Theatrical drama influenced by the Portuguese medieval poem of the same name, about an island promised to Lusitanian warriors by the Goddess Venus.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana, Zita Duarte, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 114
12. River of Gold (1998)
95 min | Drama
A look at jealousy in its many shapes through romances, riches and murders.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Lima Duarte, Joana Bárcia, João Cardoso
Votes: 198
13. Acto da Primavera (1963)
94 min | Drama
Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Nicolau Nunes Da Silva, Ermelinda Pires, Maria Madalena, Amélia Chaves
Votes: 289
14. Encontros (2006)
105 min | Documentary
Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal's Alentejo region, young contemporary Portuguese poet António Reis, Corsican researcher of Portuguese folk music Michel ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre-Marie Goulet | Stars: José Mário Branco, Mighela Cesari, Virgínia Dias, Manuel António Pina
Votes: 9
15. The Hunt (1964)
21 min | Short, Drama
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: António Rodrigues Sousa, João Rocha Almeida, Albino Freitas, Manuel De Sa
Votes: 398
16. O Desejado (1987)
117 min | Drama
João is the spiritual heir (the term he prefers to bastard) of Manuel Brandão, his dying godfather, and at the same time the political leader of a small party of a disintegrating governmental coalition.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Caroline Chaniolleau, Yves Afonso, Jacques Bonnaffé
Votes: 45
17. Regresso ao Passado (1990– )
60 min | Comedy, Musical, Talk-Show
Stars: Júlio Isidro, Dulce Pontes, Isabel Campelo, Tó Leal
Votes: 7
18. Se Eu Fosse Ladrão, Roubava (2013)
87 min | Drama
An indirect autobiography of Paulo Rocha, through the character of a father, that explores family, opportunity, immigration and identity.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Luís Miguel Cintra, Chandra Malatitch, Joana Bárcia
Votes: 52
19. Xavier (1992)
100 min | Drama
Director: Manuel Mozos | Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Cristina Carvalhal, José Meireles, Sandra Faleiro
Votes: 72
20. O Fio do Horizonte (1993)
91 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Andréa Ferréol, Ana Padrão, Antonio Valero
Votes: 114
21. A Ilha de Moraes (1984)
100 min | Documentary
A portrait of the orientalist Portuguese author Wenceslao de Moraes.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Emiko Akagawa, Adelaide Moraes Costa, Venceslau de Couto, Henrique de Senna Fernandes
Votes: 22
22. A Raiz do Coração (2000)
118 min | Drama
In Lisbon, during the feasts of St. Anthony, the cross breeders of politicians in black shirts and transvestites all dressed in pink. An exuberant allegory of freedom against dictatorship.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Isabel Ruth, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 95
23. A Piscina (2004)
16 min | Short, Drama
Directors: Iana Ferreira, João Viana | Stars: Inês Fouto, Teresa Arriaga, Paulo Herbert, João Pedro Vaz
Votes: 15
24. A Pousada das Chagas (1972)
20 min | Short
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana
Votes: 11
25. O Som da Terra a Tremer (1990)
90 min | Drama
An author writes a story entitled "O som da terra a tremer", and the story constantly entwines itself with his private life.
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes | Stars: José Mário Branco, Manuela de Freitas, Miguel Gonçalves, Sara Marques
Votes: 70
26. Vanitas (2004)
100 min | Drama
Nela Calheiros, a Portuguese designer on the peak of her career, falls for the daughter of one of her seamstresses, the mysterious Mila, and throws her into the world of fashion.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Joana Bárcia, Filipe Cochofel, Pedro Miguel Silva
Votes: 35
27. O Amigo Público (1998–1999)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Júlio Isidro, Margarida Carpinteiro, Victor de Sousa, Ana Bola
28. Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss (1989 TV Movie)
64 min | Biography
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Fernando Heitor, Inês de Medeiros, Vítor Norte, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 41
29. Uma Rapariga no Verão (1986)
80 min | Drama
Isabel, a girl in her late teens, is unable to determine herself and understand herself - lost in the memory of her late mother, living with her father and sister, and discovering love with... See full summary »
Director: Vítor Gonçalves | Stars: Isabel Galhardo, Diogo Dória, José Manuel Mendes, Joaquim Leitão
Votes: 80
30. Três Menos Eu (1988)
90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to ... See full summary »
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Rita Blanco, Anne Gautier, Pedro Hestnes, Isabel de Castro
Votes: 14
31. O Pão (1959)
51 min | Documentary
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 - ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Votes: 75
32. A Conquista de Faro (2005)
30 min | Short, History
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes | Stars: Rafael Almeida, Leonor Baldaque, João Pedro Bénard, Maria Carré
Votes: 14
33. Vilarinho das Furnas (1971)
65 min | Documentary, History
Director: António Campos | Star: Anibal Gonçalves Pereira
Votes: 37
35. Cinemagazine (1988–1995)
30 min | News
Weekly news show about movies. "Cinemagazine" covered all the major film festivals, the shootings of portuguese and foreign films in Portugal and interviewed all major directors and actors ... See full summary »
Stars: Elisabete Caramelo, Miguel Monteiro, Fernando Matos Silva, Rita Blanco
36. Querença (2004)
90 min | Drama
Director: José Edgar Feldman | Stars: Joana Bárcia, Diogo Dória, Pedro Lacerda, Antónia Terrinha
Votes: 12
37. História do Cinema Português (2001)
Documentary
Stars: José Fonseca e Costa, Ana Zanatti, António de Macedo, João Perry
38. Quem Fala Assim (1993– )
Talk-Show
Stars: Laura Soveral, Jorge Silva Melo, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Leitão
39. Ver e Pensar (1974– )
Stars: Manoel de Oliveira, Maria do Céu Guerra, Fernando Lopes, Elso Roque
40. Passagem ou a Meio Caminho (1980)
80 min | Biography, History
Director: Jorge Silva Melo | Stars: Luís Lucas, Diogo Dória, João Pinto Nogueira, Virgílio Castelo
41. O Guardador de Rebanhos (1999 Video)
36 min | Short, Biography
A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.
Director: José Edgar Feldman | Star: Diogo Dória
Votes: 16
42. Esperança (1994)
17 min | Short, Drama
Portugal during the revolution of 1974. A woman clashes with her cruel, repressive husband. He embodies everything which made the old regime so hated.
Director: Valter Neto | Stars: Alzira Caqoilo, Dinis Franco, Paulo Rocha
43. A travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (Carnet Filmé: 22 juin 2017) (2017)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Gérard Courant, Antonio Rodrigues
44. Comarca das Artes (1978–1979)
News
Stars: Fernando Midões, Teresa Cruz, Paulo Rocha, Isabel de Castro
45. Das Artes e Ofícios (1974–1976)
News
Stars: Mário Barradas, Manoel de Oliveira, João Bénard da Costa, Paulo Rocha
46. Portugaru San - O Sr. Portugal em Tokushima (1993 Video)
72 min
A documentary about Wenceslau de Morais, in Japan. A Portuguese writer from the beginning of the 20th century.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Álvaro Faria, Ângela Pinto, Isabel Fernandes, Bruno Cochat
Votes: 11
47. Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)
29 min | Short
Director: Paulo Rocha | Star: Alexandre O'Neill
48. Olhos Claros (1998)
30 min | Short
Director: Cláudia Tomaz | Stars: Carlos Gomes, Susana Nascimento, Paulo Rocha
49. A Verdade Inventada (2008)
16 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Directors: Iana Ferreira, João Viana | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Manoel de Oliveira, João Mário Grilo, Inês Fouto
50. Camões - Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano (1998 Video)
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Júlio Martin, Silvina Pereira