Beatriz Batarda Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors,...

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...

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and...

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

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 technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according...

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.

Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat. A...