Movies and TV shows set in portugal
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in portugal ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological and emotional films and TV shows about / with family relations, society, female nudity, love and romance, love affair, youth, friendship, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship and sex scene plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in Portugal, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as portugal: How to Draw a Perfect Circle (2009), Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Journey to Portugal (2011), Blood of My Blood (2011), Summer in Portugal (2013), Frankie (2019), The Gilded Cage (2013), April Captains (2000), My Friend from Faro (2008), Porto of My Childhood (2001).
Best films
New films
| Star Hill (2021) | 6.9 | |
| Moral Order (2020) | 6.7 | |
| Variações: Guardian Angel (2019) | 7.1 | |
| Mosquito (2020) | 6.8 | |
| Magellan (2025) | 6.7 |
List of movies set in portugal
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
Style:
erotic, eros, sexual, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
forbidden love, brother sister sex, incest, teenage sexuality, brother sister incest, sex with sister, forbidden sex, sex with brother, incestuous relationship, incestuous sex, sexual content, jealousy ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama, Adventure, Horror
Country: West Germany, Switzerland, Portugal
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it's all a ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspense, crying, sensual ...
Plot:
nun, inquisition, sex, nunsploitation, demon rape, satanism, convent, letter, sexploitation, female protagonist, confession, blood ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, ...
Style:
stylized, serious, atmospheric, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
incestuous sex, love affair, society, love and romance, friends, family relations, writer's life, fall in love, couple relations, friendship, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Music, Romance
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, atmospheric, uplifting
Plot:
young lovers, countryside, family relations, music band, love and romance, youth, love affair, folklore, hopes, family life, parents and children, village life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, factual
Plot:
desperation, cross cultural relations, suspicion, male female relationship, problem, female doctor, criminal, family relations, husband wife relationship, framed for a crime, breaking the law, suspect ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anal rape, female pubic hair, family relations, family life, single parent, juvenile delinquency, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, working class, aunt nephew relationship, mother daughter conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Workaholic hotel architect effectively drifted apart from his family. He interrupts the latest, Moroocan project to spend a holiday with his wife Liane in Lisbon, but is delayed. Friendly local interior decorator João, a widower, enjoys hosting ...
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
love affair, adultery, cancer, relationship problems, seduction, male female relationship, romantic relationship, marriage, forbidden love, relationships, love story, love triangle ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.
Style:
f word
Plot:
gay husband, bare chested male, beach, legend, women, girl, amish, fate, woods, movie actress, teenage daughter, tram ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, concierge, family problems, homecoming, family life, disorder, couples, couple relations, society, getting home, friendship, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
portugal, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Portugal, Spain, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
dictatorship, coup d'etat, military coup, dictator, military, rebellion, state affairs, politics, family relations, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
portugal, angola, africa, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eternal daydreamer Mel can't wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: Portugal. Things change when the beautiful Jenny literally crashes into her life when Mel nearly runs her over in her classic BMW. It is love at ...
Style:
semi serious, lgbt cinema, captivating, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian teen, lesbian relationship, young love, lgbt, fall in love, girlfriend, couples, daydreamer, car accident, self discovery, gender disguise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, portugal
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Style:
semi documentary, serious, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
lifestyle, society, introspection, social relations, city life, filmmaking, first love, biopic, artists and showbiz, urban, bittersweet, childhood home ...
Time:
year 2001, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Style:
serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, troops, soldier, invasion, battle zone, wartime life, on the run, life is a bitch, military, war, napoleonic era, anti war ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot:
forbidden love, aristocracy, heir, doomed love, storytelling, intrigue, orphan, love and romance, self discovery, love affair, vengeance, society ...
Time:
1800s, year 2010, 2010s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, iberian peninsula, europe, venice ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.
Style:
political
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, war, mission, village, torture, radio, brazilian abroad, control, politics, secret ...
Time:
60s, year 1968
Place:
portugal, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, being the perfect embodiment of Mariana, will drive us to a ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, emotional, independent film, realistic
Plot:
convent, love, actor's life, love affair, forbidden love, religions or cults, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, filmmaking, religion, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Biography, History, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, thrilling, political thriller ...
Plot:
army general, authoritarianism, dictatorship, political repression, secret police, assassination, problem, murderer, murder, oppression, cover up, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Laços de Sangue is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, ...
Style:
novela, family saga, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
family secret, sibling rivalry, adoption, identity, revenge, secrets, lost child, family drama, sister sister conflict, sister, life is a bitch, kids and family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Portugal, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
blindness, blind character, disability, hopes, teachers and students, human spirit, power relations, teaching the ways of the world, misfit, student, rebellion, blind man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, poland, eastern europe, europe, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new ...
Style:
surreal, light, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, photographer, summer vacation, teenage girl, female protagonist, teenage crush, neighbor neighbor relationship, friendship between girls, youth, love, love and romance, neighbor ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
filmmaking, movie business, musician, showbiz, artists and showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, filmmaker, road trip, art, on the road, rock ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, germany, lisbon portugal, europe
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Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an ...
Style:
philosophical, talky, intense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
book, dictatorship, writers, chess, friendship, self discovery, suicide attempt, teacher, train travel, amateur detective, poet, investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, 21st century
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal, europe, spain, switzerland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia, Brazil, Spain, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, tragicomedy
Plot:
social relations, couples, society, dark humor, family relations, couple relations, gang, social misfits, dishonesty, immigrant, mobster, forgery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Luxembourg
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, touching, sexy
Plot:
coming of age, nude boy, politics, pedophilia, boy, stepfather stepson relationship, skinny dipping, little boy, boyhood, unemployment, school, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Morangos com Açúcar was a Portuguese Teen drama. It was broadcast daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI between 30 August 2003 to 15 September 2012. It has also been broadcast in Angola, Syria, Brazil and Romania.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, satirical, soap opera ...
Plot:
teenager, friendship, prejudice, teen romance, adolescence, gay, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, teenage love, relationships, love affair ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Style:
melancholic, sexual, erotic, sentimental, colorful ...
Plot:
loneliness, guilt, childhood, sex, mother daughter estrangement, depression, hospital, female nudity, death of husband, family drama, mother daughter relationship, autobiography ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 80s, 90s
Place:
spain, galicia, portugal, madrid, switzerland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Portugal
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.
Style:
period piece, historical drama
Plot:
chauffeur, biopic, forbidden romance, scandal, female protagonist, hypocrisy, escape, class conflict, illicit affair, aristocracy, heiress, high society ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will ...
Style:
psychological horror
Plot:
incest, corpse, baby, telephone call, witch, twin brother, bird, locked door, tea, painting, falling from height, drawing ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a world torn apart by persecution, war and oppression, 3 children were chosen to offer a message of hope to the world.Based on the memoirs of the oldest Seer, Lucia Santos, and many thousands of independent eye-witness accounts, The 13th Day ...
Style:
spiritual, historical drama, period piece, serious, emotional
Plot:
faith, catholic, apparition, prophecy, mother daughter relationship, secret, children, abduction, pope, miraculous event, virgin mary, hopes ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
church, love and romance, lifestyle, filmmaking, culture clash, clergy, actor's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, love affair, frenchwoman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe
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