Best Portuguese short movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch short films from Portugal, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Lone Wolf

    The Lone Wolf 2021

    One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.

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  • Comando 2010

    In a losing war for a nameless cause a soldier is sent to the combat zone to deliver a message from high above to the officer in charge. His mission proves to be harder than anticipated since the havoc has apparently dissolved any vestige of order or structure and every man seems to be fighting for himself. The soldier remains unyielding in his quest however; confident in the importance and relevance of the message he carries, hoping that it will contain vital information that will save his life and his comrades. But he might be in for a big disappointment...

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  • Poster for Macabre

    Macabre 2015

    K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

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  • Poster for Corte

    Corte 2020

    At the core of a royal court unbalanced by the long absence of its King, where women seem to have disappeared along with reason, the Crown Prince is murdered. Wrapped in the plot of the promoters of a decaying libertine spirit, the heir’s brothers, a pair of twins united by the music they play together and their Valet, witness a hunt for the prepetator launched by the palace doctor's deduction. In the background of all the chatter rises the individual desire of the twins for the dynasty.

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  • Poster for China, China

    China, China 2007

    China walks towards the Lisbon district of Martim Moniz. In its wake, the children shout: China! China! China will leave at dawn, will fly away. Just wants to be happy. But drinking her own poison without leaving a drop. Sometimes the air is laden with iniquity and purgatory is a kindergarten...

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  • Poster for Idle Road

    Idle Road 2014

    Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave the set, but all the roads seem to hit the same spot, where they find a dead woman that walks.

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  • Poster for Break

    Break 2013

    André is a man with the need to pause. In a world where life, is so futile and fragile, he just needs a break. But what is reality, when that break... becomes too long?

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  • Poster for Heiko

    Heiko 2008

    A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

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  • Poster for Espectros da Terra

    Espectros da Terra 2019

    A film of a dying world populated by mythic creatures and spirits, our personal meditation on nature and the environment captured on Super 8 film.

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  • Poster for Allegoria della prudenza

    Allegoria della prudenza 2013

    A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded." A homage to Paulo Rocha and Kenji Mizoguchi, filming the director's two tombs, one in Tokyo and the other in Quioto.

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