Movies and TV shows set in portugal – page 5
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List of movies set in portugal
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
Style:
historical drama, serious, educational, tension
Plot:
colonialism, imperialism, diplomacy, power politics, bureaucracy, interview, map, conference, diplomat, geopolitics, colonization
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
germany, france, britain, portugal, belgium ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Colombia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, romantic, light, art house ...
Plot:
actor, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, in love, relationships, filmmaker, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
brazil, colombia, usa, portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Portugal
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, alienation, warehouse, isolation, migrant worker, loneliness, workplace situations, life is a bitch, workplace, identity crisis, social realism ...
Place:
edinburgh scotland, portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions ...
Style:
romantic comedy, rom com, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paparazzi, celebrity, love story, fame, secret, male female relationship, love, in love, love interest, fall in love, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of ...
Style:
avant garde, lgbt cinema, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
male nudity, gay interest, gay relationship, male pubic hair, interracial gay sex, gay sex, gay son, gay youth, gay romance, oral sex, father son relationship, fireman ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
pedophilia, pedophile priest, children, religion, child abuse, childhood trauma, childhood memory, cardinal the priest, church, catholic church, female nudity, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2015, year 2016, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
france, portugal
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144K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan, Spain, UK, Iceland
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot:
car, elevator, carsploitation, sniper, revenge, fast car, punched in the face, shootout, home invasion, good versus evil, driving lesson, terrorist ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
portugal, naples italy, italy, brazil, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
Style:
period piece, black and white, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, lesbian couple, gay love, forbidden love, secret relationship, bare butt, sapphic, lgbt, lesbian sex ...
Time:
1900s, 1880s, 19th century, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
spain, portugal, argentina
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, intense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
smuggling, drug, gang, drug dealing, cocaine, drug traffic, criminal gang, bandit, criminal, drug smuggler, drug dealer, claustrophobia ...
Place:
spain, galicia, latin america, portugal, brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sentimental, light, feel good
Plot:
family reunited, elderly, generation gap, nothing goes right, parenting, life turned upside down, children, eccentric family, teaching the ways of the world, dream, parenthood, family life ...
Time:
future
Place:
portugal, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Eva, a young and promising Spanish lawyer based in Edinburgh, sees her wedding plans with the heir to an important and ultra-conservative Scottish family in jeopardy when she learns that her grandmother, Sofía, has decided to marry…
Style:
entertaining, feel good, psychological, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
lesbian, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family reunited, love triangle, love, wedding, gay, eccentric family, grandmother, relationship problems, parents and children, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Place:
canary islands, portugal, edinburgh scotland, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In August 2015, an ISIS terrorist boarded train #9364 from Brussels to Paris. Armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, the terrorist might have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. One ...
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, train, terrorist, friendship, terrorist group, faith, wound, military, war on terror, danger, brutality, islamic terrorism ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, portugal, sacramento california, san antonio texas ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets an man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, erotic, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fetish, peeping tom, gay, gay sex, gay lead character, erotica, lgbt, sadomasochism, anonymous sex, male rape, sex, garbage collector ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
James Bond tracks archnemesis Ernst Blofeld to a mountaintop retreat where he's training an army of beautiful but lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco -- and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld. ...
Style:
saga, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
james bond, 007, agent, espionage, woman with a gun, bond girl, secret agent, assassin, car chase, secret service, cold war, mountain ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
switzerland, portugal, swiss alps, alps, england ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the thirteenth century, the region around the city of Berzano was ruled by a legion of Templar Knights, who sought eternal life through the ingestion of human blood. They terrorized the region by harvesting the land and committing human ...
Style:
gothic, scary, slasher, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Plot:
zombie, medieval, undead, folk horror, morgue, lesbian interest, sexual attraction, desire, passion, bisexual, occult, rape ...
Time:
medieval times, 20th century, 70s, 13th century
Place:
portugal, spain, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Portugal, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aimless adolescent (Ellen Page) joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.
Style:
erotic, sincere, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hitchhiker, coming of age, abuse, homelessness, social misfits, life is a bitch, city life, individualism, teenage life, lifestyle, innocence lost, rebelliousness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
portugal, berlin germany, france, spain, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Style:
sexy, costume drama, melancholic, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
love and romance, obsession, royal family, tudors, male nudity, medieval, politics, intrigue, infidelity, tragic hero, royalty, crazy ...
Time:
16th century, 15th century, ancient times, middle ages, 18th century ...
Place:
spain, portugal, austria, europe, flanders ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
Style:
suspense, gothic, dark, sexy, horrifying ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, orphan, spanish civil war, disappearance, child abuse, gold, boarding school, haunted, coming of age, supernatural, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
portugal, south america, spain, europe, madrid ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Doce Fugitiva is a Portuguese telenovela, broadcast in the channel TVI. It aired from October 24, 2006 to September 16, 2007. It's a remake of the 2002 Argentine telenovela Kachorra.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, captivating, satirical, twisted ...
Plot:
female protagonist, disguise, mistaken identity, problem, hidden identity, accused of murder, framed for a crime, new identity, framed for murder, personality change, deception, satire ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, tense, noir ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, macabre, obsession, paranoia, mystery woman, stalker, slow burn, alienation, murder mystery, identity crisis, femme fatale, isolation ...
Place:
barcelona, portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Angola, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wife goes from a ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
freedom fighter, colonialism, african, dictator, dictatorship, humanism, genocide, independence, activist, violence, blaxploitation, black ...
Place:
africa, portugal, angola
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132K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy, Mexico, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, visually stunning, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missionary, religion, christianity, religious persecution, culture clash, crisis of faith, christian, torture, faith, doubt, martyr, clergy ...
Time:
17th century, year 2016, year 2015, 2010s
Place:
japan, portugal, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
Viriato is a Hispanic shepherd who enjoys a simple life until the arrival of the Roman troops of the praetor Galba. It will changes his destiny. His village is attacked and massacred. Viriato, dam of hate, swears not to rest until revenge. ...
Style:
epic, emotional, erotic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
roman empire, rebellion, vengeance, rivalry, battles, righting the wronged, folk hero, social relations, family relations, confined, military, occupation ...
Place:
europe, portugal, rome italy, spain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
The series tells the story of Charles I or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most powerful men Europe has met, the ruler of a empire as great in size as in diversity.
As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it ...
Style:
serious, factual, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
aristocracy, spanish history, renaissance, royal family, european history, king, catholicism, society, church, rivalry, love and romance, royalty ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
spain, portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
TV show
Story:
This production tells the story of Joana and Rodrigo meet for the first time at the University of Aveiro. They fall in love, unaware of the dark past that unites their families. Later, they discover that they are brothers causing their lives to ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, intense, tragic ending ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family secret, male female relationship, eccentric family, family problems, lifestyle, relationships, family relations, romantic relationship, love affair, relationship problems, love interest ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of ...
Style:
surprise ending, parody, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
female nudity, pagan cult, odd couple, nude girl, husband leaves wife, italian abroad, mission, stealing a car, missing person, broken down car, ostrich, rain ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
africa, portugal, angola, kenya, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 262 min.
TV show
Story:
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Style:
tragic ending, romantic, family saga, dramatic, poignant ...
Plot:
literary, forbidden love, tragic romance, star crossed lovers, heartbreak, fate, class conflict, family honor, fatalism, obsessive love, betrayal, social realism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who ...
Style:
dramatic, emotional, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
amnesia, identity crisis, responsibility, moral dilemma, character study, guilt, memory loss, moral ambiguity, regret, remorse, existentialism, revenge ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, serious, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
shakespeare, monastery, religions or cults, couples, convent, family life, love triangle, legends and myths, gory, custody, writer's life, clergy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, antarctica
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
500 years after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during it's centennial celebration. Being blind, the Templars find their ...
Style:
gothic horror, brutal, perverse, classic horror, gothic ...
Plot:
renaissance, medieval, undead, folk horror, supernatural horror, monster, 666, infected, virus, occult, epidemic, exploitation ...
Time:
15th century, 14th century, 20th century, 70s
Place:
portugal, spain, europe
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