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PORTUGUESE AFRICA, 1973. Slowly, we have plenty of time: the words of the Second Lieutenant to the small band of soldiers he commands. A land mine exploding on the forest track, the patrol lost in the forest. The death of a soldier, shots in the night. Involved in a war in which the enemy is never seen, the mud-splattered soldiers methodically carry out the final pilgrimage without bitterness or glory, the tame farewell of a generation to five centuries of Portuguese presence in Africa: a story of war.
PORTUGAL, 1985. Raul and Piedade, small farmers from Minho, go to visit Lisbon. They see Alexandre, their second son, again and visit Laura, the widow of their first son killed twelve years before in the war in Africa. The family is together again but it will never be even a shadow of what it was before. Marked by time, the memory that once united them is now only pain and silence. Life is like that, according to the personalities involved. They are not bitter, but accept things as they are and smile. Raul and Piedade go back to their home in the north, but Laura and Alexandre have nowhere to return to: a story of peace.

Um.Adeus.Portugues.1986.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 22mn
Size: 	1.26 GiB
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Resolution: 	720x572 ~> 762x572
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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BPP: 	0.200
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/5948D044416F00B/Um.Adeus.Portugues.1986.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French

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Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth & extreme poverty mingle, so do culture, ignorance, perversion & ignorance. Griffith’s channelled via Júlia Britton.

Tempos.Dificeis.1988.WEBRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 35mn
Size: 	1.54 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 120 Kbps
BPP: 	0.150
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/F0156921DC0D9B4/Tempos.Dificeis.1988.WEBRip.x264-MaZ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/CFC90E9545DA294/Hard_Times.eng.srt

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

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In this comic political farce, the protagonist thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House! Surrounded by female supporters, she proclaims’I am the President of the U.S.A., I can do whatever I want.’ She locks her mother in the basement and on her birthday, throws a huge party in honor of her re-election, while making plans to control the entire world. …The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States ( A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA )

	
A.Mulher.Que.Acreditava.Ser.a.Presidente.dos.EUA.2003.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 29mn
Size: 	1.37 GiB
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Aspect ratio:  	16:10
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 951 Kbps
BPP: 	0.217
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#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 Kbps

Extras (with French and English subtitles)
Making Of 12'40''
Trailer 1'30''
Trailer 2 39''

https://nitro.download/view/0F186561C777157/A.Mulher.Que.Acreditava.Ser.a.Presidente.dos.EUA.2003.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv https://nitro.download/view/A5AA53A87ED3A26/A.Mulher.Que.Acreditava.Ser.a.Presidente.dos.EUA.2003.APH.EXTRA.Making.Of.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/680663F7B3C3561/A.Mulher.Que.Acreditava.Ser.a.Presidente.dos.EUA.2003.APH.EXTRA.Trailer.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/E3B2F6D48EF836F/A.Mulher.Que.Acreditava.Ser.a.Presidente.dos.EUA.2003.APH.EXTRA.Trailer2.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese, Latin, Mandarin, English, Italian, German
Subtitles:French, English

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Miguel is a successful economist until his father’s death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from his wife and initiates a process of physical disintegration. He will reach the bottom before he starts seeing the light. As an echo to his journey, we follow, faraway in the countryside, the story of a crime and its redemption, the story of Antonio and Cecilia. From death to the miracle of life, here on earth.

Aqui.na.Terra.1993.TVRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 44mn
Size: 	1.57 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x486 
Aspect ratio:  	3:2
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 950 Kbps
BPP: 	0.223
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/6090583F9D58EA4/Aqui.na.Terra.1993.TVRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:None

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It all begins when an average family (slightly chilly because they’re forced to take their vacation out of season) is struck by good fortune.
Jesus the couple’s young son, finds a hidden and forbidden treasure in the sands of a deserted beach: the wealth of the hearth.
The same day, and not so far away, two priests decide to close the doors to their church due to lack of a congregation, and auction off the images of their beloved saints.
Between the wealth of the heavens and the spirit of matter they embark on an adventure. A banker with auditory hallucinations when he talks about money.
The replies of a minister with visual hallucinations when influences are concerned.
An elegant, suave and mysterious woman, with a beatiful wig and splendid colors, excites everything wherever she goes.
A general dealing with arms trafficking and his little wife dealing with arts, Olympuses and ridiculous hair.
A crazy cast of numerous characters… and even more adventures.
Tráfico is a tangled tale about how the true and old rich people have fun, how the new and false rich people encounter difficulties and how everything ends up well…

“Be factius for redress of all these griefs”.
Shakespeare

1.67GB | 1h 50m | 714×548 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/04EB68828C0A4AC/Trafico.1998.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French, Italian

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Aged 13, Maria Noronha is an estremely pale and fragil girl, sick with tubercolosis. In order to alleviate her suffering, she gathers poppies from her garden, and at night puts them on the pillows on her bed. But the poppies have a devastating effect. Her deep sleep is disturbed by terrible ghosts and hallucinations: about the decadence of the Portuguese XVII century, the Jesuits’s power and the terrible Inquisition.

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Biography
João Botelho was born in 1949 in Lamego (Portugal). He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. He was one of the protagonists of the Renaissance of Portuguese filmmaking at the end of the Salazar dictatorship. After his early work as a television director and his first short film ALEXANDRE AND ROSA, he made his debut feature-length film THE OTHER ONE. This was followed by A PORTUGUESE FAREWELL and HARD TIMES, TRAFFIC and WHO ARE YOU?. In 2008 he authored NORTHERN COAST, followed by FILM OF DIQUIET, OH, LISBON, MY HOME and THE MAIAS – STORY OF A PORTUGUESE FAMILY.

http://nitroflare.com/view/58BEB79DE69E522/Quem.es.Tu.2001.PH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English, French, Italian Includes Director’s Commentary track (no subtitles available)

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SYNOPSIS:

A room in Lisbon. A man dreams and establishes a theory to make it come true. This film is based on The Book of Disquiet , the posthumous work of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It portrays the solitude of man through picturesque images and dramatic effects.

REVIEW:

It is late night in a café. A typical young intellect in his early twenties with sharp black eyes peering through black steel framed glasses is muttering that the modern method of measuring time is wrong and staring at a young man who is slouched with a face that looks pale, indifferent, and worried, all at the same time. Modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, who had keen observations of the dailiness of modern times in Lisbon in the 1910s, The Book of Disquiet, which Pessoa wrote in 1913, and the character of Bernardo Soares, into whom Pessoa projected his identity, all come to life in Lisbon in the 21st century through this film. The film is based on The Book of Disquiet, a diary about the distance between feelings of loneliness and the monotonous reality of daily life written by Bernardo Soares who goes back and forth between the accountant’s office where works as an intern and his room, both of which are located on Rua dos Douradores in Lisbon, and may have been an impossible project to bring to the big screen; much like Joseph Strick’s attempt with James Joyce’s Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Nevertheless, João Botelho began this project that everyone advised him against with the conviction that the quality of cinematic time, which resists the chronological flow of time and is able to illustrate daily life in a fragmented and musical rhythm, was the optimal vessel in presenting the extratemporel text that refuses to be confined to the limitations of a ‘book’. The characters in the film and the additional incidents become existences themselves in no time and become a part of the present of 2010. (Park Jinhee)

http://nitroflare.com/view/C0EE85D2BB0CF81/FILME_DESASSOSSEGO.avi
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/5D9A9BEA69D2DB0/FILME_DESASSOSSEGO.idx
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/BDB44D15C60B70A/FILME_DESASSOSSEGO.rar

Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:English .sub

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