Beatriz Batarda Movies

A family with a long history (and many members) gathers around a table in a mansion in southern Portugal. The region has transformed from a depressed...

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is...

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that...

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her...

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the...

Vicente goes to Egypt to cover some news for his newspaper, but then he decides to take the investigation further, along the Tropic of Cancer,...

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

Years after a sudden departure that left open wounds, Helena returns to the isolated coastal village where she grew up. Nestled between the...

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to...

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the...

In Lisbon, Marcelo writes a novel, using the life of his own wife, Beatriz, as the main inspiration to the story. The creative process of the book...

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.