The best Anabela Moreira’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Anabela Moreira’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Anabela Moreira.
Diamantino
6.3/10
A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.
The Last Bath
6.1/10
A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.
Blood of My Blood
7.3/10
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
O Pátio das Cantigas
5.6/10
A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.
Alta Fidelidade
7.1/10
Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.
Ruy Blas
6.6/10
The Fatalist
5.5/10
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
In the Darkness of the Night
6.7/10
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Fátima
6.8/10
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
Carne
6.2/10
Violante, a young and beautiful catholic nun, is facing a few marital issues with her husband Jesus Christ - who stalks her through the dark corners of a decaying convent and seeks to punish her for her (alleged) sins. In a dark stormy night they struggle to win each other to their personal points of view. She quotes the bible in terms of unconditional love - He does the same in terms of capital punishment. But are His manly insecurities based on solid grounds? After escaping His jealous rage, the nun lurks through the dark alleys and the bars like a vampire. Doomed to loneliness, all she wants is a Man. And who can this Man be?
Ruth
6.4/10
This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Um Rio Chamado Tempo, uma Casa Chamada Terra
3.5/10
Renaissance
The story of a couple who can not get rid of the pain of losing a daughter, until one night that they are confronted with the dark and sinister paths of guilt and penance.
Misbegotten
6.7/10
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form...
É o Amor
6.3/10
A look at the lives of women in the fishing community of Caxinas, their daily tasks and the relations with men.
Small Town
6.8/10
When six-year-old Frederico finds out at school that people die when their hearts stop beating, he is unable to sleep that night. The next day, his mother asks the teacher once again: Must children always be told the truth? Always?
O Dia do Meu Casamento
My Wedding Day follows a morning in the life of three women. One for whom marriage presents itself as a norm to be conformed with, another who is preparing to leave her childhood home and meet the marriage and another fighting for the survival of her innocence in these and many other norms.
And of course, the guests are at the same time participants and witnesses of all this normality.
It is seemingly a story about nothing and nothing more than the simple morning of a wedding. Mine.
Director's Statement:
Man tamed by society becomes a stranger to himself. In a process with no possible escape where "we have to confuse ourselves with others" (Nietzsche).
Like a gear that swallows us. And a gear that swallows humans can never function properly.
