PORTUGAL – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

SILVESTRE (1981)

Jon W. — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:55:16 +0000

Based on the traditional Portuguese tales A Donzela que vai à guerra and A Mão do finado. In Portugal during the Middle Ages, the elderly Dom Raimundo decides to marry off his daughter Silvia to a rich neighbor. He goes to the royal court to invite the king to the wedding. But in his absence, Silvia disguises herself by becoming a soldier named Silvestre.

Director: João César Monteiro.
Writers: João César Monteiro (scenario), Maria Velho da Costa & João César Monteiro (dialogue).
Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo, João Guedes, Xosé Maria Straviz, Ruy Furtado, Raquel Maria, Cucha Carvalheiro, Rogério Vieira, Afonso Vasconcelos, Manuela de Freitas, João Perry, José Mário Branco, Hermínio Rebelo.
Cinematographer: Acácio de Almeida.

1981 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

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MARIANA ALCOFORADO (1979)

Jon W. — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:53:33 +0000

An adaptation of the renowned Portuguese Letters, originally written in French and attributed to Soror Mariana Alcoforado. As letters may have been written by Soror, in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Beja, to her lover Noel Bouton, Count of Chamilly.

Director: Eduardo Geada.
Writers: Eduardo Geada, Eugénio de Andrade (adaptation).
Stars: Lia Gama.
Cinematographer: Manuel Costa e Silva.

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Many thanks to dessie for sending me a copy of this film.

English subtitles OCRed by me Enjoy!

AS RUÍNAS NO INTERIOR (1976)

Jon W. — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:53:15 +0000

1943. A bourgeois family spends part of their Easter vacation in an old family home near a fishing village, close to the beach. On the first floor of the house lives temporarily a Belgian woman with two young children, a refugee from the war raging in Europe. Life is mundane until, from the mist one morning, two men emerge from the beach, one of them wounded. They are one of the pilots and the helmsman of a British fighter plane that crashed into the sea…

Director: José de Sá Caetano.
Writer: José de Sá Caetano.
Stars: Françoise Ariel, Keith James, Brian Ralph, Jacinto Ramos, Catarina Avelar, Constança Navarro, Luís Alberto, Maria Otília, Rui Luís, Clara Maria Azevedo, João Pedro Estrelado, Frederic Hugon.
Cinematographer: Elso Roque.
Composer: Rui Cardoso.

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O SANGUE (1989)

Jon W. — Fri, 31 May 2024 04:48:10 +0000

O Sangue (Blood), tells the story of seventeen-year-old Vincente and his ten-year-old brother, Nino, who must face the departure of their abusive father and its aftermath. With the aid of Vicente’s girlfriend, Clara, the trio attempts to pick up the pieces of their fractured family life while confronting an unwelcomed uncle and mobsters who try to collect debt that their father left behind.

Filmed in exquisite black and white, O Sangue marks a significant step in the career of Costa, who would eventually become one of Portugal’s most celebrated artists. While O Sangue is a first glimpse of his masterful use of chiaroscuro lighting, Costa has veered away from his debut’s formalist aesthetics in his subsequent films, which concentrate on his hypnotic portraits of real-life characters in the lower depths of Portuguese society.

Director: Pedro Costa. AKA Blood
Writer: Pedro Costa.
Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Canto e Castro, Isabel de Castro, Henrique Viana, Luis Santos, Manuel João Vieira, Sara Breia, José Eduardo, Ana Otero, Pedro Miguel, Miguel Fernandes.
Cinematographers: Acácio de Almeida, Elso Roque, Martin Schäfer.
Composer: António Pinho Vargas.

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ON THE RUN (1999)

Jon W. — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:22:35 +0000

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert’s quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.

Director: Bruno de Almeida.
Writers: Bruno de Almeida & Jonathan Berman (story), Joseph Minion (screenplay).
Stars: Michael Imperioli, John Ventimiglia, Drena De Niro, Nick Sandow, Joaquim de Almeida, Victor Argo, Sharon Angela, John Frey, Paul Lazar, Anthony Zaccaro, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Arthur J. Nascarella, Tom Gilroy, Anna Köhler, Agnès Jaoui, Suzanne Shepherd, Bronson Dudley, Dwight Ewell, Paolina Weber, Joel Rooks, Gary Perez, L.B. Williams, Sara Graça, Jason Pabon, Saul Negron, Miguel Ferreira, Luis Fontes, Lou Tiano, David Callegati, Eddie Branquinho, Tino Navarro, Kate Lunsford.
Cinematographer: Igor Sunara.
Composer: Frank London.

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OS MUTANTES (1998)

Jon W. — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:50:57 +0000

Os Mutantes examines the lives of three kids in their early teens who have rejected life in juvenile homes or with foster families to take their chances on their own. They drift into petty crime and are exploited by sexual predators; the two boys end up working in a pornographic film, while Andreia becomes pregnant.

Director: Teresa Villaverde. AKA The Mutants.
Writer: Teresa Villaverde.
Stars: Ana Moreira, Alexandre Pinto, Nelson Varela, Alexandra Lencastre, Paulo Pereira, Helder Tavares, Jorge Bruno Gomes, Teresa Roby, Isabel Ruth, Alexandra Lencastre, José Raposo, Guilherme Filipe, António Capelo, Marta Sofia Vargas, Samuel Costa, Maria Tengarrinha, John Monteiro, Carlos Alberto Silva, Luís Esparteiro, António Pedro Cerdeira, Luisa Cruz, António Fonseca, Paula Sá Nogueira, João Cabral, André Dias, Serafim Dias, Fatima Furtado, Rui Ribero, M. Henriqueta Saraiva, Maria Simões, Thomas Baumann, Carlos Pimenta, Ricardo Colares, Amadeu Ferreira, João Pedro Rodrigues, Adriano Paiva, João Joni, Mario Paiva, Fernando Guedes, Ricardo Costa, Paulo Sousa, Álvaro Monteiro, Gerardo Fernandes, Teresa Lobão, Eucine Anjos, Luís Santos.

1998 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award.

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PO DI SANGUI (1996)

Jon W. — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:27:37 +0000

In Amanha Lundju, the trees planted upon the birth of each child begin falling rapidly and mysteriously. Led by the tradition healer, Calcalado, the villagers begin a desert exodus in search of the cause of their curse and discover they must return home to fight for their traditions and their old way of life.

Director: Flora Gomes. AKA Tree of Blood
Writers: Anita Fernández, Flora Gomes.
Stars: Dulcenia Bidjanque, Djuco Bodjan, Dadu Cisse, Edna Evora, Bia Gomes, Adama Kouyaté, Ramiro Naka.
Cinematographer: Vincenzo Marano.
Composer: Pablo Cueco.

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BENILDE OU A VIRGEM MÃE (1975)

Jon W. — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 06:58:19 +0000

Oliveira’s fourth feature, adapted from a play by his close friend José Régio, was one of his major breakthroughs as a filmmaker: a fable about a deeply sheltered young woman who tells her wealthy, religious parents that she’s been impregnated in the wake of an angelic visitation. It’s possible to take Benilde, or the Virgin Mother as a scathing denouncement of religious hypocrisy, a veiled response to the abuses of the Salazar regime, or a set of obsessive, carefully staged formal exercises—or some combination of the three.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira. AKA Benilde or the Virgin Mother.
Writers: José Régio (play), Manoel de Oliveira (adaptation).
Stars: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva, Glória de Matos, Maria Barroso, Augusto de Figueiredo, Jacinto Ramos.