English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, Cavell aids him to reach Holland and safety.
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit…
As her compassionate adolescent son Ciel hones his magic skills, hard-working single mother Jude battles sickle cell anemia and falls for an aging boxer of few words, who struggles to eke out a living fighting in illegal brawls.
Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
A comedy of maners in the wake of the October crisis in Quebec and the Osaka Expo ’70.
Nuba of Gold and Light tells the story of a music. The Arab Andalusian music, with Nuba as its symphony… As a musical tree, its branches are nourished by the sap flowing since the fourteenth century from Morocco’s most remote areas
During World War II 15.000 Brazilians volunteered to go to Italy fight the axis forces. This is the history of the Lapa Azul battalion.
André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling (“Jogo de Bicho”) on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André.
The comedy stars Mazzaropi as a diehard fan in conflict with his Palmeiras-supporting neighbours.
A young priest in a housing estate. A sensual and seductive young woman. Amaro (Jorge Corrula) does his best to resist temptation, but Amélia (Soraia Chaves) doesn’t give up. Can a man of God can overcome the carnal desire?
Adapted from the original work of Virgílio Ferreira, O Encontro was directed for the “Contos Tradicionais Portugueses” series and produced by Cinequanon and RTP.
Lino Paes Rodrigues (Vítor Norte), a business man, receives a letter in his office. An old relative passed away leaving to him many lands in Alentejo. Lino gets back to a place and time that he’d already forgotten.
Comedy about a shoeshine boy who accidentally gets involved with a gang of bandits to find a lost cat whose owner offers a great reward to whoever to return it.
An epic drama re-creating the historic struggle surrounding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. At the center of these events are two young, American friends—one Jewish, the other Arab. The film is told from the alternating viewpoints of the Jews, Arabs and Brits.
Félix, a boy with Down syndrome, in love with football, has a chance to hold a match against rival school’s team.
The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that’s short lived because his female boss makes him her lover.
O Outro Teatro proposes a look on the independent theatre manifestations set out by the pioneer gesture of the Experimental Theatre of Oporto with António Pedro. An utilitarian object in the service of the independent theatres’ struggle.
In the gardens of the big village house of an unsociable architect, one hand is found and in a sign he announces he’ll give it back to anyone who proves that hand to be his.