Instituto Português da Arte Cinematográfica e Audiovisual Popular Movie

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariya Lipkina

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanda Duarte

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joaquim Oliveira

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

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

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vítor Norte

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugues Quester

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanne Balibar

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquim de Almeida

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Núria Madruga

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miou-Miou

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sérgio Titos

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bianca Byington

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Bolito

A dream girl can cause a lot of insomnia. That's what happens to Daniel Bricks, a young british engineer, working temporarily at the construction...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diogo Infante

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nelson Xavier