Rita Durão
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1976-01-21
Locus Natus: Lisbon, Portugal
Et ut: Rita Durao
Sansa
Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa...
release : 2004.01.29popularis : 2.448
The Kegelstatt Trio
Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other....
release : 2022.01.26popularis : 1.989
Five Days, Five Nights
Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a...
release : 1996.04.25popularis : 2.031
April Captains
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...
release : 2000.04.21popularis : 5.432
A Woman's Revenge
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...
release : 2012.03.29popularis : 2.488
Love Torn in Dreams
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...
release : 2000.08.28popularis : 1.75
Second Hand
Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.
release : 2013.06.19popularis : 2.041
E o Tempo Passa
Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life...
release : 2011.03.10popularis : 3.746
Peixe-Lua
The story of a family of bull fighters.
release : 2000.09.29popularis : 2.769
Lent
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...
release : 2003.05.18popularis : 0.952
O Teu Rosto Será o Último
Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro.
release : 2024.06.06popularis : 1.478
Hands in the Fire
The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...
release : 2024.02.22popularis : 0.786
O Dez
A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
release : 2010.03.13popularis : 3.466
Come and Go
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...
release : 2003.06.03popularis : 1.451
As Bodas de Deus
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
release : 1999.10.15popularis : 4.012
Andre Valente
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love...
release : 2004.09.16popularis : 3.433
Correspondences
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long...
release : 2016.08.04popularis : 8.21
The Invisible Collection
A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...
release : 2009.01.01popularis : 2.155
Cinemaamor
Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town...
release : 2000.01.18popularis : 0.915
The Portuguese Woman
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their...
release : 2019.02.28popularis : 2.362
The Conquest of Faro
Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 2.017
From Now On
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of...
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 1.026
Pedro
Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.
release : 2016.07.15popularis : 2.463
Cinerama
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading...
release : 2010.01.25popularis : 1.502
Demain?
The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the...
release : 2011.10.16popularis : 2.873
Daqui p'ra alegria
Three girls from the Lisbon suburbs, Bruna, Marta and Sara, are having a bit of fun. They've discovered that people in general are prepared to give...
release : 2004.04.08popularis : 1.197
The Revolution on Two Horses
It's the dawn of April 25, 1974, when Marco, a 25-year old Italian and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. The goal of...
release : 2002.04.25popularis : 0.946
Snow White
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...
release : 2000.10.11popularis : 2.772
Boys On Film 17: Love Is the Drug
Explore hidden desires on a sleepover, fall in love with the handyman and be seduced by a stranger on the beach as you discover why Love Is the Drug....
release : 2017.12.15popularis : 1.326