Andere Drehorte in diesem Land: Porto
Im Urlaub kann James Bond die junge Tracy Draco gerade noch davon abbringen, sich umzubringen. Ihr Vater, ein mächtiger Gangsterboss macht daraufhin 007 ein Angebot. Er erhält wichtige Informationen über seinen Erzfeind Blofeld, sollte er Tracy heiraten.
Esteban Trueba, ein Mann aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen, steigt während der 1920er Jahre in Chile zum Großgrundbesitzer auf. Seine Familie, darunter seine Schwester Férula, aber auch seine Frau Clara leiden unter der Härte und Unerbittlichkeit des Patriarchen. Esteban geht schließlich in die Politik, um als konservativer Senator die Geschicke des Landes mitzubestimmen. Als die Generäle durch seine Unterstützung an die Macht kommen und ihr Terrorregime errichten, fühlt Esteban sich um seine Ideale betrogen.
Doktor Josef Mengele, KZ-Arzt in Auschwitz, ist nach dem Ende des Dritten Reiches nach Paraguay geflohen und plant Grausiges. Er will eine Hautzelle Adolf Hitlers klonen und den Führer in 94-facher Gestalt wieder aufleben lassen. Dafür schreckt er vor 94 Morden nicht zurück und will die Kinder über die ganze Welt verteilen, damit zu gegebenem Zeitpunkt das Vierte Reich entstehen kann. Der Wiener Nazi-Jäger Liebermann kommt dem üblen Schergen auf die Schliche.
Der Berner Lateinlehrer Raimund Gregorius entdeckt eines Morgens eine Frau, die auf der Kirchenfeldbrücke steht. Er kann sie knapp vor dem Sprung bewahren und zieht sie mit sich ins Gymnasium. Doch als sie während seines Unterrichts wortlos verschwindet, macht sich Raimund in der Stadt Bern auf die Suche nach ihr. In ihrem Mantel, den sie im Schulzimmer vergessen hat, findet er das Buch des portugiesischen Dichters Amadeu de Prado. Sofort fühlt er sich von dessen Erzählung angezogen. Als ein Zugticket nach Lissabon aus den Seiten des Buches fällt, entschliesst sich Raimund spontan, die Reise nach Portugal anzutreten.
Dem britischen Verleger Barley Blair wird in Moskau über die Russin Katja ein Manuskript des Sowjet-Physikers Dante zugespielt. In diesem Dossier beschreibt er die Rüstungslage der Glasnost-UdSSR als so desolat, daß der Westen - seiner Übermacht versichert - das Wettrüsten stoppen möge. Das Papier gelangt allerdings an den britischen Geheimdienst, der wiederum - mißtrauisch wie stets - Blair auf Dante ansetzt. Blair entdeckt während dieses Auftrags seine Liebe zu Katja und sein respektvolles Verständnis für Dante. Als sich der Widerspruch zwischen Blairs Gefühlswelt und seinem Agentenauftrag zuspitzt, wagt er ein gefährliches Doppelspiel.
Die streng gläubige Pilar hat es sich zur Lebensaufgabe gemacht, andere Menschen glücklich zu machen. Die alte Nachbarin Aurora ist für diese Mission wie gemacht. Die notorische Rentnerin verspielt ihr ohnehin schon weniges Geld im Casino von Estoril und verdächtigt Haushälterin Santa des Voodoo-Zaubers. Doch als die alte Dame todkrank ans Bett gebunden ist, eröffnet sie Pilar ihren letzten Wunsch. Ihr verschollener Liebhaber Gian Luca Ventura soll wiedergefunden werden. Auf der Suche nach ihm begibt sich Pilar auf die Fährte einer leidenschaftlichen Romanze der Vegangenheit und setzt sich mit Portugal zu Zeiten des Kolonialkrieges auseinander.
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
Im frühen 19. Jahrhundert stehen sich in den Hügeln von Nordportugal bereits zum dritten mal innerhalb weniger Jahre die portugiesisch-britischen Truppen des Generals Wellington und die französischen Invasionstruppen des napoleonischen Generals Massena gegenüber. Die vorherigen Schlachten endeten alle irgendwie unentschieden, diesmal soll die Entscheidung fallen. Im Niemandsland zwischen den wogenden Fronten spielen sich unterdessen dramatische Schicksale ab, von denen manche nicht ohne historische Folgen bleiben.
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.
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 sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
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 falls madly in love with a young blonde, who lives across the road. No sooner does he meet her than he straightaway wants to marry her. His uncle, totally opposed to the match, fires him and kicks him out of the house. Macário departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle’s approval to marry his beloved, he discovers the “singularity” of his fiancée’s character.
Das zügellose, exzessive Leben des bisexuellen Video-Kameramannes Jean ändert sich grundlegend, als er durch Zufall bei einem Casting der romantischen 17jährigen Laura begegnet. Im euphorischen Taumel und der Erfahrung eines nie erlebten Gefühls verschweigt er, daß er HIV-positiv ist. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen seiner Zuneigung zu Männern und einer ganz neuen Erfahrung, durchlebt er im Bewußtsein eines nahen Todes alle Höhen und Tiefen seines triebvollen Lebens. Am Rande des Wahnsinns und maßloser Provokation lernt er durch Lauras Stärke und bedingungsloser Liebe sich zu öffnen. Jean lernt zu leben und zu lieben...
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
Six friends meet every evening in a basement to make music. During the daytime, however, there are no rehearsals for what life brings us. Each endeavour leaves its mark. Rita left Ricardo, Rafael found her, but she still feels lost. Eduardo thought he no longer liked Maria, but after what he has done he cannot turn the clock back. João lacks the courage to breakup with his girlfriend and takes refuge in the song he is writing for Inês. Marco struggles to get another young man’s love, but he is under no illusions. Samuel believes in everlasting love but something is wrong because his friends haven’t heard from him for sometime. Inês, attempting to feel safe, likes to experiment and she's waiting to see how things go with João. With all this going on, how could the band not be falling apart...?
After laying bare backward village mentalities in Bloody Morning, Li Shaohong turns her attention to China’s urban middle class. Cao is a photographer, married to an opera singer and with an infant son, caught in the usual professional morass of political compromise. His life starts to fall apart when he learns that his ex-wife also bore him a son some months after their divorce – and when the boy turns up looking for his father. Nothing wildly dramatic, just believable people in believable situations. If the ending seems a touch forced, this is nevertheless a sign that ‘Fifth Generation’ cinema is changing and coming to terms with up-to-date realities.
At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits who cross his path learn this to their own cost. But, unfortunately, no one is perfect... As soon as he catches a cold, Benoît loses his extraordinary physical abilities. Hence he never takes off the woollen scarf wrapped around his neck. Brave and very determined, he doesn't hesitate a second to take action to defend his friends. So, when Poilonez - a well known crook - and his gang decide to focus on Mr. Dussiflard, his taxi driver friend, Benoît does all that he can to thwart his plans.
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
A story of a woman and a man, half of her age being in love with each other despite the fact that they are both tied with someone else.
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, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
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 of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".
A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
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 him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.