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Living Bad (2023)
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.
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37
6.7
/861/
63
/23/
62
/11/
3.4
/3623/
75
/12/

Bad Living (2023)
In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.
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7.3
/2136/
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/50/
70
/31/
3.7
/1328/
86
/4/

Blood of My Blood (2011)
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
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33
6.8
/409/
64
/25/
59
/11/
3.5
/351/
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/51/
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/44/

Fátima (2017)
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
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14
6.7
/652/
64
/20/
57
/15/
3.5
/500/
75
/4/

In the Darkness of the Night (2004)
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
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6.4
/161/
55
/5/
55
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That's Love (2013)
In Caxinas, a fishing neighborhood in Vila do Conde, a city on the north of Portugal, the relationship between the fishermen and their wives is based on vital trust and reciprocal and absolute dependence, in order to assure their families survival.
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56
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6.7
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50
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52
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Misbegotten (2007)
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.
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5.0
/19/
40
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Raul Brandão was a Great Writer... (2012)
This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.
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50
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5.6
/274/
50
/5/
44
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Black Shoes (1998)
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
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/154/
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Lusitanian Illusion (2010)
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
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60
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Three Less Me (1988)
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 France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
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6.5
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60
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Mãe Há Só Uma (2006)
A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she only should accept, the daughter can not explain what should be accepted.
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7.4
/49/
70
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40
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The Actor's Work (2011)
Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develop the most important scenes of that plot until it takes its ultimate form, in the film which results from this work.
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5.3
/113/
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Lovely Child (1990)
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.
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6.4
/31/
70
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Portugal: One Day at a Time (2015)
A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The houses, the cafés, the streets and the people who still live there. It is the picture of the day-to-day of some of these people, who are ever fewer, and ever more elderly. And lonely. People who live their lives one day at a time.
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7.3
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Diary of Beiras (2017)
A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.
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5.7
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The Day of My Wedding (2016)
The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.
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5.9
/21/
80
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Fojos (2020)
Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.
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66
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6.7
/179/
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Get a Life (2001)
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
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Fugas.pt (2003)
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