The Red Light Bandit 1968 ( 7.68)

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.

The End of Man 1971 ( 6.1)

A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

The Option 1981 ( 5.8)

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.

N/A N/A

The series focuses on the violence of the Brazilian dictatorship against women, the LGBTQIA+ population, a black population living in favelas, indigenous peoples, students and educators, and rural and urban workers.

N/A N/A ( 10)

José Machado and Patrícia Müller criticize television series: two TV series in confrontation with more suggestions to watch at the end of each episode.

Os Chapéus-de-chuva De Chocolate 2012

The Forest of the Lost Souls 2017 ( 5.3)

The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.

Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob? 2018 ( 7)

A personal film about grief and farewell, about serenity and arrival as well as reunion and retrieval.

A Noiva 2007 ( 4)

Deep in the Douro river there is a legend about the ghost of a dead bride, who haunts the area. Regardless, a couple of lovers goes to an abandoned house near the river, where they are attacked by the undying bride.

Bully 2024 ( 6)

This telefilm was inspired by the short story of the same name written by Miguel Simal.

Peace 2021 ( 6)

A group of veterans from the Portuguese Colonial War reunites today. Among songs and memories, the past takes over them.

Longe 2016

Through the most secret, arid and wild routes, a man approaches a big city. He looks at it from the top of a hill and feels like a stranger, having left years ago. He seems to recognize the surrounding landscape but, at the same time, feels unable to remember this environment that attracts and repels him. Conflicted, he searches for familiar friends, acquaintances, places and a daughter, who reached out to him so long ago. Finally discovering a haven where he feels at home, he leaves again.

War 2020

The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk us through the depths of the physical sites that haunt him - from training barracks to the lakes and gardens of his youth and infatuation - and also to his memory's gulf - war and passion combined, entangled, in a battle that questions or howls immemorial existential doubts.

Face To Face 1967 ( 5.5)

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations.

J. Carlos, o Sr. da Melindrosa 1969

Memória da Vida e do Trabalho 1984

The Jester 1987 ( 6.7)

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

The Jew 1996 ( 5.8)

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.

Voltar 1988

Voltar is the short story of a man that returns from prison to find the woman that he used to love. The movie was made for RTP (the Portuguese National TV).

Our Daily Bread 2019

Pedro and Leonor have a disturbed relationship as a couple. They live together, on the countryside, but they start to grow apart from each other, thanks to Sunday’s church. While Peter doesn’t care for religion and actually likes to mock it, Leonor is getting more religious and grow fond with the priest. His jealous rises, also with help from church’s clerk, and Peter decides to take action with his barehands.

Clara di Sabura 2011

Clara is a lazy and irresponsible teenager, who live in Bissau (the capital city of Guinea-Bissau), and uses her beauty as a weapon. Everyone around her admonishes her, despising her and naming her as Clara di Sabura (Clara of Parties, of the Good Life).

Mulheres Liberadas 1982 ( 2.5)

Segment 1 - THE TIRE (O Pneu)-(20'): Pietro carries a folder full of money with him on his journey. On the road, he meets Luiza who had a flat tire of her car. He spends the night with her in a motel. Segment 2 - THE TELEPHONE (O Telefone)-(20'): Elisa is a dissatisfied woman with her marriage and engages with a stranger on the phone. On the other side of the line, the man tells her erotic things, making her imagine herself living the situations narrated. Segment 3 - THE CURRENT (A Curra)-(40'): A newly married couple from the United States seeks to revive their erotic knowledge in ...

A Volta Pela Estrada da Violência 1971

Por Um Céu de Liberdade 1961

O Sequestro 1981 ( 1)

A robber breaks into a house in the Santa Teresa district of Rio de Janeiro and kidnaps the family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping that happened in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, whose victim, Carlinhos, has never been found to this day.

O Risco 2011

On a remote road, two friends try out a magic chalk that was bought online. According to the site, if someone crosses a line drawn with that chalk, his head explodes. They draw a line and wait for someone to come by... but are they ready to face the consequences if this turns out to be true?

Cristina Mendanha - Entrevista/Documentário N/A ( 9)

An intimate interview in YouTube with Cristina Mendanha, talking about her as a person and who she is.

Judas, Judas, Judas 2021

A visual and sound poem that explores the symbolism of the metaphors of the Burning of Judas.

A Casa da Minha Mãe 2021

Joana, mother to Vicente, is slowly transforming into a woman-wolf hybrid. Vicente, who has been feeling more and more distant from his mother, lives through a brief event that separates this day from others, gaining hope that the relationship between the two isn’t doomed, and imagines how their joint healing process would be.

Liberdade de Morar 2025

A documentary that follows the lives and struggles of residents from the "Chico Prego Occupation" in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.