5 Films & TV Shows Set In Portugal During The 1960s
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Ruth
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1960s1960. The event that stirred up Portugal. — This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
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The Portuguese Falcon
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1960sThe first portuguese super-hero! — A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".
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Night Train to Lisbon
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1960sOnly when you are lost can you truly find yourself — Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1960sFar up! Far out! Far more! James Bond 007 is back! — James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
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A Man Could Get Killed
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1960sAn American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
