Portuguese Colonial Wars
War in Angola (since '61), war in Guinea-Bissau (since '62), war in Mozambique (since '64). FRELIMO. Battles, veterans, consequences.
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- DirectorSarah MaldororStarsElisa AndradeDomingos de OliveiraJean M'VondoA man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
- DirectorLuís Filipe RochaStarsDiogo InfanteRuth GabrielMarcantonio Del CarloThe film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
- DirectorLicínio AzevedoStarsIva MugalelaHermelinda CimelaSumeia Maculuva1975, Mozambique's rebirth as an independent nation. The young revolution sweeps the streets of Maputo clean of prostitutes and bad habits. The prostitutes are sent to re-education camps deep in the countryside, where they will become "new women" - loyal comrades of the new nation. As the "clean-up" takes place, Margarida, a 16-year-old girl from the countryside, is mistakenly taken. Drawing on the stories of real women, Virgin Margarida is a dramatic exploration of a little known chapter in Mozambique's history. A chapter that made no allowance for individuality and enshrined male domination as an ideology.
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsBeatriz BatardaFilipe DuarteMonica CalleBased on the novel by Lidia Jorge.
- DirectorRuy Duarte de Carvalho
- DirectorSarah MaldororThe role of women in the struggle to liberate black Angola from its white Portuguese colonialist rulers.
- DirectorIvo FerreiraStarsMiguel NunesMargarida Vila-NovaRicardo PereiraBased on António Lobo Antunes's novel, a collection of letters written by a young soldier, doctor and a aspirant writer, to his wife while he was serving in Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Portuguese Colonial War, a war between Portugal with its former overseas provinces.
- DirectorSarah MaldororStarsCarlos PestanaNoureddine DreisMohamed ZinetAbuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.
- DirectorArtur SemedoStarsArtur SemedoPedro PinheiroJerónimo Ramos
- DirectorJorge AntónioStarsÂngelo TorresMiguel HurstNicolau BreynerTwo Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
- DirectorZézé GamboaStarsLázaro RamosPedro HossiJoão LagartoZézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration.
- DirectorMargarida CardosoStarsIrene RavacheBeatriz BatardaGonçalo WaddingtonAfter her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.
- DirectorZdravko VelimirovicStarsArmando LoyaAna MazueSantos MulungoAs children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two childhood friends meet on opposing sides.
- DirectorSana Na N'HadaStarsJacquelina CamaraEtelvina GomesAful MackaThe film tells the tale of Iala, whose authority over his two sons, Raul and Bedan, is shaken. Raul has left to study in a seminary in the big city, where unknown to anyone, he has joined the liberation movement. Meanwhile, younger son, Bedan is rebelling against every possible tradition, even eyeing his father's young bride-to-be.
- DirectorJoão VianaStarsMamadu BaioFatu DjebatéImutar DjebatéMutar, who fought in the war, is back in Guinea. In his luggage, he brings strange objects .
- DirectorJoão VianaStarsMamadu BaioFatu DjebatéImutar Djebaté
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsMarco D'AlmeidaAdriano CarvalhoCarla ChambelMozambique, 24th of December 1969, a Portuguese army patrol return to headquarters bringing in a prisoner. A few hours later, he is found dead in his cell. Who killed him? and why? tensions grow, while an attack to the headquarters is under way...
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaEmmanuelle SeignerNicolau BreynerEvery year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
- DirectorMaria de MedeirosStarsStefano AccorsiMaria de MedeirosJoaquim de AlmeidaStory 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.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraDiogo DóriaMiguel GuilhermeEpisodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsIsabel de CastroRuy FurtadoMaria CabralIn Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace.
- DirectorAntónio Vitorino D'AlmeidaStarsSinde FilipeEstrela NovaisMário ViegasPortugal, 1973. Mario, a former war fighter from Guinea, intends to return to his hometown. It brings with it a vague sense of guilt, in the death of two men - a soldier and a native - by alarm he gave during the night. In Lisbon, he finds Margarida - the widow of his dead companion - a woman who swings between madness and premeditated theatricality. Mario is looking for a deputy whose fifth in the north of the country, his family had worked - and he intends precisely to be given a job there .
- DirectorFernando Matos SilvaStarsJosé GomesVirgílio MassingeA dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsGiancarlo GianniniOrnella MutiOtar KoberidzeAntonio is a retired aviator from the Portuguese colonial wars. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship of Antonio d'Oliveira Salazar. He is arrested and escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: 'Life is Beautiful.'
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsAntónio BeringelaAna ZanattiSérgio GodinhoThrough the decadence of a once noble and rich family, unable to plan the future of their members and the application of their resources, one can see the decadence of the Portuguese empire, starting with a badly planned invasion of Africa in Alkacer Kibir (Maroc, 1577).
- DirectorAlberto Seixas SantosStarsOtelo Saraiva de CarvalhoEduardo LourençoRobert KramerAn essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsRicardo ColaresTeresa RobyJoaquim de AlmeidaThe story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsCarlos PauloPedro CunhaLeonor Seixas
- DirectorAlain BornetStarsMário BessaJulieta CasteloEmilio Correia
- DirectorAugusto FragaStarsCarmen MendesMaria BastosMaria CristinaReturning from Angola, having fought in the Portugues Colonial War, Ilídio dreams of returning to his fiancée, Maria. But Maria believes that she is a woman of the church and doesn't want to marry him anymore.
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsGeraldo Del ReyIsabel RuthMaria BarrosoAfter a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. Discouraged, the man meets a new girlfriend who vows to escape the town's crushing poverty even if she has to steal. The two begin a relationship but the film does not indicate what their future may hold.
- DirectorCarlos TudelaStarsMário PereiraAdelina CamposCanto e CastroA boy breaks family and social barriers to be a missionary in Africa. Years later, vanquished by age and illness, he must come back - but he keeps teaching youths in the hard way of his own vocation.
- DirectorRogério Ceitil
- DirectorFernando Matos SilvaStarsJoão MotaMaria do Céu GuerraZita DuarteThe Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short lived because his female boss makes him her lover. He longs for the coffee shops, and the companions of old, but he doesn't get true love from anyone.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJosé CunhaMarta LeitãoJosé Nuno MartinsArtur, in Lisbon for his holidays, wanders aimlessly, and is picked-up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in Lisbon for holidays, but also trying to escape from a mysterious, dark passion. Artur and Joana come together, find common roots in their rural background, but their union comes to an end, as someone from Joana's past interferes.
- DirectorLopes BarbosaStarsEstevão MacunguelMaklin ComicheGabriel ChiauRape by an African foreman leads to the the mounting revolt of the labour force in an African colony. While some are forced to accept their condition of slaves, others prepare themselves to fight back at the armed repression.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaNicolau BreynerAna BustorffTen men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsVítor NorteMaria d'AiresJoão LagartoRui Sequeira (Vitor Norte), a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant.
- DirectorFlora GomesStarsBia GomesTunu Eugenio AlmadaMamadu Uri BaldeThe story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.
- DirectorFlora GomesStarsMaysa MartaPedro DiasAntonio Simao MendesA beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.
- DirectorGuenny K. PiresStarsA'Ali de SousaA feature film documenting one of the greatest of modern theoreticians of the African Revolution and founder of the Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, Amilcar Cabral. Also known by his nom de guerre, Abel Djassi. He is an agronomist, a writer, a poet and one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. His mission was to eradicate Portuguese colonial rule in the exploitation, moral and physical propensity for repressive practices based on their absolute refusal to regard the African as a human being.
- DirectorOnuora AbuahStarsUche AbuahJonathan HanslerDavid AveryA female assassin attempts to kill the Portuguese Prime minister during a state visit to London in 1973.
- DirectorRon HallisPortrait of the late president of Mozambique, Samora Machel, killed in a plane crash in 1986.
- DirectorConstante DiegoStarsReynaldo MiravallesNelson VillagraAnnia LinaresA cuban farmer lost his son in the Angola war. Since that day, his life has only one purpose: glorify his son's name, working hard in an agricultural cooperative which becomes the best of the country.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsRogério SamoraTeresa MadrugaPedro EfeA 47 year old man who immigrated illegally to France, returns to his village and faces the changes that took place there, even the bride he had left is involved with another man. At that moment, and while the village prepares for a religious ceremony, he plans his revenge.
- DirectorDino PappasChristopher-Lee dos SantosStarsShaun JonesP J VivierBrad BackhouseThe South African Border War, commonly referred to as the Angolan Bush War in South Africa, refers to the conflict that took place from 1966 to 1989 in South -West Africa (now Namibia) and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces (mainly UNITA) on the one side and the Angolan government, South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), and their allies - mainly Cuba - on the other. It was closely intertwined with the Angolan Civil War and the Namibian War of Independence. This film plays off against this backdrop. The year is 1978 and the Angolan Bush War is reaching a crescendo. Operation Reindeer is in full swing. After losing his brother, a man learns the importance of humanity and the realities of war when his unit, capture SWAPO prisoners of war and transport them back over the borer towards friendly lines.
- DirectorNatalya PanovaStarsAleksey Pobortsev
- DirectorRegardt van den BerghStarsArnold VoslooEric NobbsFrank Dankert1980s South African action comedy shot mostly in Afrikaans, one of South Africa's 11 indigenous languages. The main character, played by Arnold Vosloo, is a spoilt young man from a rich family, just finished with school, and conscripted to two years' army service, as most defensible young men were forced to do in the '80s. The movie revolves around the young rebel's anti-establishment antics in frustrating his superiors, trying to avoid military service with his new-found comrades-at-arms, and charming an inquisitive spiky-haired reporter (Janie du Plessis).