Best Portuguese comedy movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy films from Portugal, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
May I Speak with the Enemy? (2024)
Shanghai Kiss (2007)
Shanghai Kiss (2007)
Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He's not very appreciative of his Chinese roots and at first only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of the Chinese culture and ends up having some big decisions to make
Balas & Bolinhos (2001)
Balas & Bolinhos (2001)
A group of friends meet and set out to rob a gas station.
Tristeza do Jeca (1961)
Tristeza do Jeca (1961)
Simple and popular hillbilly Jeca is forced to get involved in politics, when the leaders of the region, competing to be elected mayor of the town, try to get his support.
Some Time Later (2018)
Some Time Later (2018)
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
A Song of Lisbon (2016)
A Song of Lisbon (2016)
How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?
Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó (2023)
Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó (2023)
Follows the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their precious Necklace of São Cajó, that's been in the family for over 3500 years and hides secrets, curses and a mythical cod recipe.
The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)
The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)
A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014)
Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014)
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
The Lion from Estrela (1947)
The Lion from Estrela (1947)
Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
A Song of Lisbon (1933)
A Song of Lisbon (1933)
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
Camera Cafe: The Movie (2022)
Camera Cafe: The Movie (2022)
Jesús Quesada, an incompetent executive, is appointed as the new director of a company in decline whose survival will now depend on both the ingenuity and ambition of his former colleagues.
Could Have Waited For August (2024)
Could Have Waited For August (2024)
Xavier, a village boy, falls for Laura, neighbor's granddaughter who visits her grandfather annually. Despite flirting at summer dances, Xavier believes he has no chance with her.
Ruas Rivais (2014)
Ruas Rivais (2014)
In a neighborhood of the suburbs where avenges the law of the street, a group of teenagers will be required to overcome themselves and challenge their fears to conquer a place in the world.
Autumn (2023)
Autumn (2023)
In a small Portuguese town, a family is turned upside down when their son leaves to study in London. Over a year, we see a daughter's coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son's emancipation and a mother coping with an "empty nest"
The Courtyard of the Ballads (2015)
The Courtyard of the Ballads (2015)
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.
The Beauty and the Paparazzo (2010)
The Beauty and the Paparazzo (2010)
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
The Face You Deserve (2005)
The Face You Deserve (2005)
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor (2016)
Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor (2016)
A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.
The Tyrannical Father (1941)
The Tyrannical Father (1941)
While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.
O Costa do Castelo (1943)
O Costa do Castelo (1943)
André (Curado Ribeiro), is a son of a wealthy family who meets a girl called Luisinha (Milu). Luisinha lives at a small pension house with Rita (Maria Olguim) and Januário (João Silva), who are as parents to her, and with mr. Simplício Costa (António Silva), better known as Costa do Castelo, a lazy but highly talented guitar player who together with (Hermínia Silva) reaches success.
O Costa d'África (1954)
O Costa d'África (1954)
Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he has been lies to his uncle all the time. All goes well. But, Costa decides to prolong his stay for two weeks...
Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022)
On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of the two young men devoted to love and desire, and the will to change the status quo.
O Grande Elias (1950)
O Grande Elias (1950)
When Mr. Elias discovers that his aunt, who lives in Brazil, comes to visit him, he decides to temporarily occupy the house of a wealthy neighbor who's away so that she doesn't discover that he's not as rich as he told her.
Banana Motherfucker (2011)
Gaby Estrella: O Filme (2018)
Gaby Estrella: O Filme (2018)
When a new teen idol knocks Gaby off the pop charts, she decides to return to her country hometown where adventure, love and music await.
7 Pecados Rurais (2013)
7 Pecados Rurais (2013)
In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.