Centro Português de Cinema (CPC) Movie Trailers

One Hundred Times Lost Trailer (1973)

04 September 1973

Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising.

The Vow Trailer (1973)

16 June 1973

José and Maria, a young, devout couple in a remote Portuguese fishing village, take a vow of chastity on their wedding night to honor a religious pact.

Ma Femme Chamada Bicho Trailer (1978)

01 September 1978

The film documents the places where the Portuguese painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992), and Hungarian Arpad Szenes were born, met, and lived together, painting, and living to each other.

Masks Trailer (1976)

14 June 1976

The film sought to portray a relatively unknown and isolated rural world and, through a highly politicized discourse, affirmed the genuineness of “folk culture.

Past and Present Trailer (1972)

27 February 1972

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira.

Emigrantes... e Depois? Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Every year, especially in August, thousands of emigrants return to their villages from France, Germany and other countries of immigration.

Nós Por Cá Todos Bem Trailer (1978)

04 March 1978

In his childhood haunts, in the village of Várzea dos Amarelos, the filmmaker films peasant life with its seasonal and daily rituals: a festive meal, the slaughter of a pig, bread-making.

Benilde or the Virgin Mother Trailer (1975)

21 November 1975

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.

Ana Trailer (1982)

15 September 1982

Centered on an elderly matriarch and her family in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal. An exploration of the cycle of life and death, using the main character, Ana, as an emblem of a life lived in harmony with nature and tradition.

Fragments of an Alms-Film Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants.

A Pousada das Chagas Trailer (1972)

25 February 1972

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

O Mal-Amado Trailer (1974)

03 May 1974

The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern.

Tras-os-Montes Trailer (1976)

10 June 1976

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east Portugal, a tapestry of micronarratives where past, present and future become intertwined.

Jaime Trailer (1974)

02 May 1974

Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.

Cartas na Mesa Trailer (1975)

06 January 1975

Jorge Lopes is a journalist in a Lisbon daily newspaper. He does story after story in the Portuguese capital, covering all the aspects of its life, accompanied when necessary by Antonio, his photographer.

Brandos Costumes Trailer (1975)

18 September 1975

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar.

Falamos de Rio de Onor Trailer (1974)

10 October 1974

A borderland village of Trás-os-Montes, 27 km away from Bragança, Rio de Onor preserved - due to its isolated location - the old communitarian practices, of farmers and shepherds, that define it as an important and unmistakable center of this region.