Movies: João Canijo
- 1994
Lisbon Story (1994)
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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....
- 1982
The State of Things (1982)
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On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the fi...
- 1995
The Convent (1995)
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The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England....
- 1983
In the White City (1983)
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Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon....
- 1986
The Rose King (1986)
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A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses....
- 2011
Blood of My Blood (2011)
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A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week....
- 1994
Blind Man's Bluff (1994)
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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....
- 2023
Bad Living (2023)
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In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the u...
- 2023
Living Bad (2023)
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A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her...
- 2004
In the Darkness of the Night (2004)
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A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution....
- 1998
Black Shoes (1998)
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In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case....
- 2017
Fátima (2017)
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The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima....
- 2010
Lusitanian Illusion (2010)
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Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguis...
- 2015
Here in Lisbon (2015)
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Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about b...
- 2024
O Pomar (2024)
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West, end of the summer. Laura works at the pear harvesting, a family business. During the afternoon, Carol arrives at the village to spend a few vacation days with her friends. That night, when Laura catches them stealing pears from one of her fathe...
- 2016
Los Barcos (2016)
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An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions....
- 2007
Misbegotten (2007)
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Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to m...
- 2000
Tarde Demais (2000)
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A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive....
- 1987
The Mountains of the Moon (1987)
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This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manue...
- 2001
Get a Life (2001)
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During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese communi...