Movies: Canto e Castro
- 1994
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
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It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired m...
- 2000
April Captains (2000)
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Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it....
- 1999
Jaime (1999)
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A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets ...
- 1996
Foreign Land (1996)
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After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger....
- 1999
Longe da Vista (1999)
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In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic li...
- 1989
Blood (1989)
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Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is est...
- 1998
Requiem (1998)
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What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its ...
- 2004
Portugal S.A. (2004)
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The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company....
- 2000
Word and Utopia (2000)
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The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery....
- 2000
451 Forte (2000)
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Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is aware of Laura's relationship with her husband and ...
- 1990
Step by Step (1990)
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Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed....
- 1996
A Fachada (1996)
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Short film....
- 1992
Day of Despair (1992)
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Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco....
- 2002
Low-Flying Aircraft (2002)
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Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death....
- 1996
Five Days, Five Nights (1996)
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Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain....
- 1992
The Charlots Return (1992)
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Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood, and his eye has lately been wandering to others. When his strong-tempered wife catches him with another...
- 1998
Traffic (1998)
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Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here inc...
- 1983
Dina and Django (1983)
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Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- acti...
- 1991
Xavier (1991)
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Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him....
- 1998
In the Shadow of the Vultures (1998)
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Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship....