7 Films & TV Shows Set In Portugal During The 21st Century
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Pathos
🇵🇹 Portugal The 2000s The 2020sOnce upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live. The endless survival. Angela, a retired history teacher, has long lived in voluntary isolation, locked in an apartment in Lisbon. All her life, she refused conventions. Today, on Christmas Eve, she is faced with a “trivial” decision. Hospitality.
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Your Name Is
🇵🇹 Portugal The 2000sAnimated documentary evoking Gisberta Salce Jr., a transsexual brutally tortured and murdered in Portugal in 2006, through the memories and testimonials of transexual friends and two of the young men involved in her death.
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Sobre as Armas e o Povo
🇵🇹 Portugal The 2010sAn addition to As Armas e o Povo (1975), filmed at the Lisbon Cinemateca in 2019.
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Chelas nha kau
🇵🇹 Portugal The 2010sChelas nha Kau (Chelas my place) is a kaleidoscope of recordings taken between 2016 and 2019. A film that reveals various layers of what it means to be a young person in a social housing project and lets you into the inner world of a group of friends for whom “Chelas is the capital of Lisbon and Lisbon is the capital of Portugal”.
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Long Shot
New York District of Columbia 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇴 Colombia The 2020s The 2010s The 1990sUnlikely but not impossible. — Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter—much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
🇵🇹 Portugal The 2010sEvery night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. These are stories based on whatever will be happening in Portugal during the production time of the film. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events. This film will be about the reality of a disgraced country, Portugal, under the effects of a global economic crisis.
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇲🇳 Mongolia The 2060sYou will meet yourself face-to-face when Earth meets its duplicate in outer space! — A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet. After a disastrous crash-landing Ross awakes to learn that Kane lies near death and that they apparently have returned to Earth, as evidenced by the presence of the Council director and his staff. Released to the custody of his wife, he soon learns things are not as they seem.
