Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

In the White City

1983

French

7.3

♡ 5

90%

Alain Tanner Director

Julia Vonderlinn as Élisa / The Swiss woman

Cecília Guimarães as La dame du train

José Carvalho as Le patron

Bruno Ganz as Paul

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

Tabu

2012

Portuguese

7.3

♡ 16

87%

neighbor neighbor relationship

plantation

Romance

Miguel Gomes Director

Vasco Pimentel as Demonstration spokesman / Pool house owner

Henrique Espírito Santo as Gian Luca Ventura

Manuel Mesquita as Mário

Miguel Gomes as Narrator

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

In Vanda's Room

2000

Portuguese

7.0

♡ 7

100%

Pedro Costa Director

Paulo Jorge Gonçalves as Self

Pedro Lanban as Self

Fernando Paixão as Self

Paulo Nunes as Self

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

Os Verdes Anos

1963

Portuguese

7.4

♡ 4

60%

Paulo Rocha Director

Manoel de Oliveira as

Isabel Ruth as Ilda

Rui Gomes as Júlio

Ruy Furtado as Raúl

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010

Portuguese

7.5

♡ 4

85%

70%

18th century

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

family secrets

husband wife relationship

lisbon, portugal

mentor protégé relationship

Raoul Ruiz Director

Maria João Bastos as Ângela de Lima

Léa Seydoux as Blanche de Montfort

Melvil Poupaud as Coronel Ernest Lacroze

Clotilde Hesme as Elisa de Montfort

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.

After Everything

2023

English

♡ 41

81%

Castille Landon Director

Hero Fiennes-Tiffin as Hardin Scott

Arielle Kebbel as Kimberly

Chance Perdomo as Landon

Josephine Langford as Tessa Young

Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realizes he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.

The Russia House

1990

English

6.1

♡ 37

70%

50%

Action

based on novel or book

central intelligence agency (cia)

Fred Schepisi Director

Colin Stinton as Henziger

Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya

Blu Mankuma as Merv

Ken Russell as Walter

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

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