Worst of Portugal (Features)
This list focuses exclusively on features produced after the year 2000 and is devoid of malicious intent.
Portugal has one of the most interesting film industries in the world and Portuguese films are among the most original and fascinating you'll see. Because there are exceptions (often more talked about than overlooked masterpieces), here is a list of what NOT to see.
Portugal has one of the most interesting film industries in the world and Portuguese films are among the most original and fascinating you'll see. Because there are exceptions (often more talked about than overlooked masterpieces), here is a list of what NOT to see.
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- DirectorMiguel GaudêncioAlexandre ValenteStarsPiotr AdamczykLúcia MonizPaulo PiresNicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but on that night, he will end up dead in his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice 10 years ago. The viewer then follows two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death; and on the other, Nicholas himself living a different life. A second life.
- DirectorAndré BadaloStarsPedro TeixeiraRita PereiraAna ZanattiThe hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale.
- DirectorVicente Alves do ÓStarsDalila CarmoIvo CanelasAlbano JerónimoShaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSoraia ChavesMarco D'AlmeidaNuno MarklTelenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsNicolau BreynerMargarida Vila-NovaAntónio Pedro CerdeiraA 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.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsMauro da CostaAndré CabralMargarida Vila-Nova2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.
- DirectorVicente Alves do ÓStarsRita LoureiroJoão ReisMarcello UrgegheOn a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him.
- DirectorSérgio GracianoManuel PurezaStarsSamuel AlvesTomás AlvesÁlvaro AragonezThreatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
- DirectorEdgar AlbertoAlexandre ValenteStarsPedro FernandesSofia RibeiroFernando FernandesTó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsLeonor SeixasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraAna Rita ClaraMadalena is 30 years old and is abandoned by the love of her life a mysterious Spaniard named Ricardo. With the support of her best friends she tries to forget him, and find true love.
- DirectorVicente Alves do ÓStarsRicardo PereiraOceana BasílioNuno PardalFour friends. One swimming pool. One house. One phone call. One question - What if the love of our life came back 10 years after everything was over?
- DirectorCarlos Coelho da SilvaStarsJorge CorrulaSoraia ChavesNicolau BreynerAn young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman.
- DirectorSérgio GracianoStarsDânia NetoAfonso PimentelDalila CarmoWhen a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
- DirectorAntónio FerreiraStarsJoana de VeronaMiguel BorgesNuno NolascoInspired by the true story of the Portuguese King Dom Pedro who unearthed his beloved (Ines) to crown her queen after her death, this film recounts this unparalleled passion story over three eras.
- DirectorCláudia VarejãoStarsEunice FrancoTwo twin sisters, a master and his dog, lovers who look like each other...all doubles are possible in the simultaneously poetic and hyper-realistic universe of Claudia Varejão. Here, love comes in all shapes and sizes, building a choreography of visual resemblances, while also questioning what makes a couple in the contemporary world.
- DirectorJoão Miller GuerraFilipa ReisStarsBitori Nha BibinhaIsabel CardosoMiguel MoreiraA chance meeting sets 25-year-old Portuguese Rastafarian Djon África on the track of his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, an adventurer whom he doesn't know. But things never go as planned in life - and particularly in this charming search for Djon's identity.
- DirectorJoaquim SapinhoStarsAmélia CorôaLudovic VideiraMaria SilvaA young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.
- DirectorNuno LeonelJoaquim PintoStarsRafaela JacintoAngela CerveiraFabiana SilvaThe earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths; their tentative steps to fully exist evoke fragments of stories, bringing real life experiences and events into each character.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsPatrícia GuerreiroSuzana BorgesRui MorissonA historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria de Noronha.
- DirectorJorge CramezStarsJaime FreitasAna MoreiraMargarida Vila-NovaMarta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno¹s sister and Marta¹s best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge¹s friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will emprision him and, convinced that his love and his lover¹s desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsCarlos PauloPedro CunhaLeonor Seixas
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsJoão Pedro VazAlice Albergaria BorgesBeatriz BatardaIn Portugal, a father, a mother and a daughter's daily lives are being subsumed by the effects of the economic crisis.
- DirectorMiguel CadilheStarsJoão Paulo RodriguesPedro AlvesSofia RibeiroThe adventures of Quim and Zé from the fictional Portuguese village Curral de Moinas continue with the cultural shock of these hillbillies coming to Lisbon. Curral de Moinas is already the banking-romantic-financial comedy of the year!
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsOksana TkachJoana AguiarFrancisco FernandezInês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, she participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction .
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsIvo CanelasEnrique ArceFlora MartínezTwo amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaMichelle ManiaSkyler DaySeveral characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsMaria do Céu GuerraJoão JesusFernanda SerranoAn 18 year old boy with a complicated life starts a criminal career but ends up on a rooftop of Lisbon. On the apartment below lives a recently widowed, lonely old lady. Against all odds and her family's will, they become each others best company.
- DirectorDavid BonnevilleStarsAnabela MoreiraMartim CanavarroMargarida MoreiraA nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religion, family and love become entangled.
- DirectorIvo FerreiraStarsMargarida Vila-NovaRhydian VaughanKwok-Leung KamMaria lived all her life in the Empire Hotel. But Chu's return to Macau in the search for vengeance will destroy the thin stability she once lived.
- DirectorRodrigo AreiasStarsDavid AlmeidaAndré CepêdaVítor CorreiaIn an old, decrepit cinema, several stories emerge like ghosts. A compilation of films of various formats project multiple versions of people who are beaten by life.