Movies: José Manuel Mendes

  • 2022
    Just Retired 2

    Just Retired 2 (2022)

    Just Retired 2

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    Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the beginning of the problems for the grandparents, bec...

    Just Retired 2
  • 2010
    Mysteries of Lisbon

    Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

    Mysteries of Lisbon

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    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in t...

    Mysteries of Lisbon
  • 2010
    The Strange Case of Angelica

    The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

    The Strange Case of Angelica

    6.52010HD

    A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. Fr...

    The Strange Case of Angelica
  • 2008
    Heiko

    Heiko (2008)

    Heiko

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    A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism....

    Heiko
  • 2020
    The Last Bath

    The Last Bath (2020)

    The Last Bath

    5.42020HD

    A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled....

    The Last Bath
  • 2021
    The Metamorphosis of Birds

    The Metamorphosis of Birds (2021)

    The Metamorphosis of Birds

    6.62021HD

    Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother, Beatriz, on her 21st birthday, spent extended periods at sea, leaving her with six children. This is the...

    The Metamorphosis of Birds
  • 2015
    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015)

    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

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    In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport h...

    Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
  • 1988
    The Cannibals

    The Cannibals (1988)

    The Cannibals

    6.81988HD

    This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanti...

    The Cannibals
  • 2000
    Love Torn in a Dream

    Love Torn in a Dream (2000)

    Love Torn in a Dream

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    A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the...

    Love Torn in a Dream
  • 1992
    No Dia dos Meus Anos

    No Dia dos Meus Anos (1992)

    No Dia dos Meus Anos

    5.51992HD

    This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air....

    No Dia dos Meus Anos
  • 2002
    The Uncertainty Principle

    The Uncertainty Principle (2002)

    The Uncertainty Principle

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    Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family....

    The Uncertainty Principle
  • 2016
    An Outpost of Progress

    An Outpost of Progress (2016)

    An Outpost of Progress

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    At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become incre...

    An Outpost of Progress
  • 1995
    Paraíso Perdido

    Paraíso Perdido (1995)

    Paraíso Perdido

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    Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. T...

    Paraíso Perdido
  • 2004
    The Fifth Empire

    The Fifth Empire (2004)

    The Fifth Empire

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    Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire....

    The Fifth Empire
  • 1999
    A Hora da Liberdade

    A Hora da Liberdade (1999)

    A Hora da Liberdade

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    Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy....

    A Hora da Liberdade
  • 1993
    Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

    Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (1993)

    Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

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    Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself ...

    Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
  • 2022
    Índia

    Índia (2022)

    Índia

    6.52022HD

    Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenage...

    Índia
  • 2021
    Empty Hands

    Empty Hands (2021)

    Empty Hands

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    A dark and surreal comedy about a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for life advice....

    Empty Hands
  • 1986
    A Girl in Summer

    A Girl in Summer (1986)

    A Girl in Summer

    4.71986HD

    It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick....

    A Girl in Summer