Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

Cats

December 1933 •Portuguese

A lisbon story of cats

Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew

Invalid date •English

A love letter from an American soul to the city of Lisbon.

Caos do Sodré

July 2022 •Portuguese

Graphic City

October 2024 •Portuguese

"Graphic City" explores Lisbon's vibrant urban art scene through the unique eyes of artist Mariana Duarte Santos. Between murals and interventions that transform public space, the film delves into the streets of the Portuguese capital to reveal the artistic expression that arises from the city's walls. This documentary captures the creative spirit of Lisbon, where every corner becomes an open canvas for the imagination.

Us in the Street

June 2015 •Portuguese

Day after day, men and women occupy downtown Lisbon and use it as their stage. People call them "street performers" but nobody knows who they are or why they do what they do...

Lisbon, Sad and Happy City

April 2022 •Portuguese

In the 1950s, Victor Palla and Manuel Costa, two architect friends, portrayed the city of Lisbon in more than 6,000 photographs. These were published in an eponymous book circulated in fascicles during the fascist regime, but forgotten for the next half-century. After their deaths, it became the photo book with the greatest international projection of all time and this film is a tribute to the work of these two figures, which is now 100 years old.

The Symphony of a Deserted Lisbon

December 2020 •Portuguese

After being stuck at home for two months, she finally goes out for a walk. In a short form documentary, she photographically explores this deserted Lisbon, never ever seen, through a passionate look. The city breathes, stripped of human beings.

Looking at Lisbon

December 1953 •English

This quick look at Lisbon begins with aerial footage of the port city as the off-screen narrator provides some history of a seafaring, colonizing nation, of destructive earthquakes, and of contemporary construction. Then it's on to famous buildings and monuments, a look at female fishmongers who ply neighborhoods with baskets of fish on their heads, a survey of two nearby resort areas, watching a town's annual running of the bulls, and a visit to a bullfight, where the bulls are not killed.

A Shot in the Dark

March 2005 •Portuguese

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...

Antonio, a boy in Lisbon

January 2002 •Portuguese

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Lisbon Story

December 1994 •English

Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

The Soft Skin

April 1964 •French

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.

The Russia House

December 1990 •English

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

The Conspirators

October 1944 •English

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

In the White City

March 1983 •French

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

A Son Named Erasmus

July 2020 •Italian

Four friends in their 40s find out a deceased old flame of theirs had a child, conceived with one of them during an Erasmus (EU student exchange program) in Portugal 20 years earlier. They embark on a journey in search of the offspring, while waiting for the DNA results to find out which one is the father.

Mysteries of Lisbon

October 2010 •Portuguese

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

El invierno en Lisboa

April 1991 •Spanish

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.

Poor Things

December 2023 •English

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Succubus

April 1968 •German

Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate.