Best award winning movies with a refreshing take from Portugal

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a refreshing take from Portugal! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a refreshing take from Portugal, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 100 Meters (2016)

Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.

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2016-11-04 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Dani Rovira, Alexandra Jiménez

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #64 for
    hoary
  2. Ranked #158 for
    cantankerous
  3. Ranked #450 for
    peripheral role

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100 Meters trailer
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2 Belle Époque (1992)

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

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1992-12-04 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Jorge Sanz

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    erotically charging
  2. Ranked #140 for
    sensitive musical score
  3. Ranked #175 for
    sporadically funny

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Belle Époque trailer
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3 The Domain (2019)

The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.

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2019-09-19 | Drama / History

Cast

Albano Jerónimo, Sandra Faleiro

Rating

rating icon 6.947
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #237 for
    interpersonal relation
  2. Ranked #250 for
    natural light
  3. Ranked #255 for
    raising eyebrows

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4 Tabu (2012)

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

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2012-04-05 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral

Rating

rating icon 7.042
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #241 for
    low-key approach
  2. Ranked #618 for
    plangent sound
  3. Ranked #823 for
    prosaic

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5 Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)

Every 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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2015-06-24 | Drama

Cast

Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #152 for
    reverse shot
  2. Ranked #315 for
    quaint
  3. Ranked #391 for
    self-referential

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6 The Ornithologist (2016)

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

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2016-09-16 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Paul Hamy, Xelo Cagiao

Rating

rating icon 6.086
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #985 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #1203 for
    vertiginous
  3. Ranked #1623 for
    puzzled

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The Ornithologist trailer
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7 Mutant Blast (2019)

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.

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2019-10-24 | Science Fiction / Horror

Cast

Pedro Barão Dias, Maria Leite

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #144 for
    plain
  2. Ranked #197 for
    sanitized
  3. Ranked #229 for
    plenty of action

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8 The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017)

The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.

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2017-10-12 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Daniela Love, Jorge Mota

Rating

rating icon 5.31
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #45 for
    Slasher Film
  2. Ranked #191 for
    off balance
  3. Ranked #270 for
    consoling

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9 Collider (2013)

A scientific experiment gone wrong. Mankind is on the verge of extinction and the world itself faces its darkest hour. Peter, Alisha, Carlos, Fiona, Luke and Lucia wake up in an abandoned hotel in 2018. Together they will try to uncover what triggered the beginning of the apocalypse and try to reverse the wormhole before all is lost.

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2013-10-25 | Science Fiction

Cast

Teresa Tavares, Iain Robertson

Rating

rating icon 3.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #956 for
    sighing
  2. Ranked #1089 for
    pointless
  3. Ranked #1107 for
    sloppy editing

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Collider trailer
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10 Blood of My Blood (2011)

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

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2011-09-27 | Drama

Cast

Rafael Morais, Nuno Lopes

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #623 for
    headscratcher
  2. Ranked #1191 for
    cross-cut editing
  3. Ranked #1682 for
    mythology extending

Trailer

Blood of My Blood trailer
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