"Portuguese Colonial Wars", by antoninavkin
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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).