João Pedro Bénard
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Movies
Hotel Royal
'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and obser...
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A Woman's Revenge
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscru...
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The Face You Deserve
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a...
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Alfama
A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just befo...
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Worth Your Weight in Gold
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vert...
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João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor ...
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Grand Tour
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden pani...
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Banzo
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infecte...
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Sombras Brancas
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his...
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who neve...
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boa...
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights o...
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Coup de Grâce
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day ...
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Vanity
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina ...
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Ramiro
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat fru...
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Rage
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hung...
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Mariphasa
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic ...
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Dead Man's Memories
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigat...
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The Conquest of Faro
Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When an...
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4 Hearts
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine ...
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Patrick
Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography websit...
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I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You
"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruff...
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Journey to Portugal
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a d...
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River of Gold
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries ano...
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A True and Faithful Account
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Men...
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated...
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Querença
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola...
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Beyond the Mountains
In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks ...
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Far From Amazónia
In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that re...
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From Now On
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her invol...
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Portuguese Joe
An old gunman travels the Alentejo in search of revenge, accompanied by the mute daughter of one of ...
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