portuguese history movies

The Longest Voyage (2020)
4.5 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History

Spain, 1519. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator in the service of King Charles I, undertakes, at the command of five ships, a commercial...

No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
6.075 / 10

War, Drama, History

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...

Inés de Castro (1944)
6 / 10

Drama, History, Romance

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive...

The Fifth Empire (2004)
6 / 10

History, Drama

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the...

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter (1998)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

Luís (2012)
0 / 10

Drama

A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet. Luís de Camões is considered...

Lisbon and WWII Spies, Gold and Diplomacy (2022)
9 / 10

Documentary, History

Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot. Caught in a vise between the Axis and the Allies, Antonio Salazar,...

O Capitão que Quase Enganou a Tristeza (2016)
0 / 10

Documentary

I, Amália (2020)
10 / 10

Documentary, Music

A portrait of Amália by herself. Her personality, experiences, daring, songs, joys and sorrows and a journey that took her all over the world, are...