Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Popular Movie

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Manuel Mendes

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Cabral

An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shyam Bahadur

UM CORPO DE DANÇA is a proposal for the history of the body, showed through the path of the biggest Portuguese dance company of the 20th...

Genre: Documentary

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The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diogo Infante

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Hestnes

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Mário Branco

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rogério Samora

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Heitor

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catarina Alves Costa

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eugénia Bettencourt

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: António Palolo

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Lourenço

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Cabral Martins

On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July...

Genre: History

Cast: Maren Ade

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence...

Genre: Documentary

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“The artist, in his movement towards the ideal, upsets the stability of any one society. Society aspires to achieve stability; the artist aims...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rui Chafes

Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Cunha