| Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) | 7.4 | |
| Imagine (2012) | 7.3 | |
| The Payback (2017) | 7.3 | |
| Longwave (2013) | 6.4 | |
| Laços de Sangue (2010) | 7.3 |
Movies and TV shows set in portugal – page 3
Best films
New films
| Gloria (2021) | 6.2 | |
| Life Is Life (2022) | 6.9 | |
| Drought (2022) | 6.5 | |
| Name Above Title (2020) | 6.0 | |
| Frankie (2019) | 5.4 |
List of movies set in portugal
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Leonor and Pedro, are young, in love and from different social classes. She is the daughter of a wealthy man. He is from a modest working class family. They experience an intense but dramatically short love affair. When Pedro discovers Leonor’s ...
Style:
soap opera, romantic drama, poignant, psychological, romantic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, class differences, tragic romance, romantic relationship, love story, male female relationship, relationships, rich and poor, love affair, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hakim, 35, a friendly neighborhood cop, must infiltrate the Portuguese community for the purpose of an investigation. But can one become Portuguese in three days? Especially when we know that Hakim is a walking disaster at undercover operations. His ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, funny, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
investigation, secret service agent, clumsiness, fish out of water, working undercover, cultural difference, absurd humor, crime investigation, secret mission, ethnic humor, humour, assignment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
698
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Style:
romantic, period drama
Plot:
girl, love triangle, female protagonist, union, jealousy, rivalry, marriage, aristocracy, idealism, nobleman, foreign agent, couples ...
Time:
1850s, 19th century, year 1981
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
historical drama, poignant, tense, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
catholic church, torture, religious persecution, martyrdom, anti semitism, political repression, biopic, heresy, power struggle, royal court, class conflict, palace intrigue ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal, brazil, israel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story:
In the autumn of 1810, the French forces of Marshal Masséna are invading Portugal and are temporarily halted by the Anglo-Portuguese army under Viscount Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco. As winter approaches, Wellington withdraws his troops ...
Style:
epic, realistic, historical drama, tense, grim ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, battles, retreat, siege, leadership, strategy, sacrifice, survival, resistance, evacuation, heroism, guerilla warfare ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, scary, suspense
Plot:
family in crisis, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, family problems, danger, clergy, village, curses spells and rituals, hallucination, husband wife relationship, haunting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, jungle, forbidden love, fish out of water, love affair, social differences, fall in love, society, love and romance, farm, woods, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
portugal, brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, psychological, emotional, postmodern ...
Plot:
immigrant, social decay, haunted by the past, introspection, state affairs, revolution, mental institution, society, misfit, anthropology, existentialism, underground ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
portugal, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Portugal, Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and ...
Style:
surreal, sincere, semi serious, contemplative, road movie ...
Plot:
chaos and mayhem, supernatural, evacuation, on the road, chaos, political unrest, save the world, ocean, heroes, collision, dark humor, danger ...
Place:
spain, portugal, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, love and romance, dangerous attraction, blackmail, law enforcement, rivalry, lifestyle, ambition, political corruption, dishonesty, bribery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, clever, mind bending
Plot:
uncover truth, writer's life, partner, reluctant partners, journalism, rivalry, artists and showbiz, murder, who done it, media, twists and turns, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
portugal, malta
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Spain, France
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job as a book keeper at his Uncle Francisco's shop in Lisbon he ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
fall in love, blonde, accountant, love and romance, wooing, social differences, society, hopes, starting over, breakup, engagement, fan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, urban ghetto life, city life, decolonization, poverty, painter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
Is relevant?
792
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
rise and fall, human nature, love and romance, musician's life, rising to stardom, family relations, music, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s, 50s ...
Place:
europe, portugal
Is relevant?
499
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, road movie
Plot:
on the road, family problems, couples, couple relations, dangerous attraction, chases and races, femme fatale, on the run, mysterious character, opposites attract, infidelity, woman in danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, europe, spain
Is relevant?
101
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Manuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come to Germany to be with Petra during her illness. They ...
Style:
serious, touching, contemplative, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, estrangement, youth, parents and children, teenage life, transsexual, coma, female nudity, teenager, clinic, skateboard ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, germany, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, captivating, sincere, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
satire, love story, love and romance, love triangle, father daughter relationship, relationships, love affair, family relations, male female relationship, romantic triangle, brazilian history, shipwreck ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
portugal, brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Dutch woman escapes her family life in search for happiness in the Portuguese Algarve.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
sex starved woman, swinger party, unhappy marriage, couple relations, new love, lifestyle change, relationship problems, family problems, changing lives, seduction, troubled marriage, looking for love ...
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
602
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France, Taiwan
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, tense, melancholic, slow cinema ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploration, sea voyage, biopic, determination, ambition, leadership, mutiny, idealism, palace intrigue, marriage, isolation, colonialism ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
spain, portugal, atlantic ocean, pacific ocean
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, existential, intercultural, political drama
Plot:
exile, memory, character study, symbolism, alienation, getting home, bittersweet, nostalgia, journey, emigration, mature, slice of life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
portugal, poetic realism, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior, and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor. An unspoken past between the two men ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, love triangle, male female relationship, dangerous attraction, wedding, love and romance, dishonesty, infidelity, extramarital affair, wife, couple relations, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Eça de Queiroz's 1875 novel, the plot takes place in Leiria, Portugal, at the end of the 1860s, and follows the story of the forbidden passion between Amaro, a young priest, and Amélia, "the most beautiful girl in Leiria". ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, art film, dramatic ...
Plot:
priest in love, forbidden love, priest, female nudity, sex with a priest, religion, brothel, social criticism, literary, celibacy, catholic church, woman ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 1870s
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human palpitation of one of the greatest historical adventures of man.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, reflective, intercultural, historical romance ...
Plot:
exploration, journey, seafaring, pilgrimage, travelogue, biopic, odyssey, survival, conquering, redemption, imperialism, isolation ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
portugal, india, japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. ...
Style:
exotic
Plot:
conflict, african, female pubic hair, male full rear nudity, nudity, politics, journalist, female nudity, wedding, political unrest, cabaret, illegitimacy ...
Place:
portugal, africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Portugal, France, Angola
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a ...
Style:
period piece, tension, melancholic, dark, art house ...
Plot:
colonialism, decolonization, forbidden love, refugee, guilt, supernatural, identity crisis, tragic love, survival, spirituality, isolation, escape ...
Time:
70s, year 1974
Place:
angola, portugal
Is relevant?
229
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Portugal, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. ...
Style:
political, realistic, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
anarchism, revenge, corruption, justice, civil disobedience, oppression, tyranny, political unrest, social commentary, monarchy, resistance, anarchist ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a sister and a brother, Inês and Rafael. Since the divorce of their parents, their family never saw Rafael again. Inês runs away from home looking for him when she is told he is back at the Guincho Beach and surfing ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, existential, melancholic, art house
Plot:
siblings, family drama, surfing, mother daughter relationship, crisis of faith, coming of age, spiritual journey, getting home, identity, escape, reconciliation, female protagonist ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to ...
Style:
allegory, surreal, mystical, dark comedy, enigmatic ...
Plot:
a vision, buried alive, magic realism, macabre, supernatural, post war, coincidence, aristocracy, moral ambiguity, folklore, haunting, social commentary ...
Time:
1920s, year 1918
Place:
portugal, paris france
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
If ghosts can think and remember who they are, then the physical brain is not the only place where we store our inner selves. Helen is asked to train two young women into the art of communicating with the dead. But Helen's days as a medium are ...
Style:
psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, demon, spirit, violence, spiritualism, supernatural power, murder, revenge, devil, blood, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
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