Beatriz Batarda Movies

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

An 8-year old Portuguese child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an...

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the...

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the...

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.

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her...

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is...

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to...

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the...

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the...

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...

Years after a sudden departure that left open wounds, Helena returns to the isolated coastal village where she grew up. Nestled between the...

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a...

Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana Zanatti) goes to have dinner with her daughter...