Rodrigo Santos

Place an old desk, sit, smoke and wait? Maybe not... A city like Mexico City needs its own detective. Soon, Belascoarán Shayne will take us to discover what it takes to be an independent detective in Mexico's 70s. Belascoarán's adventures, written by Paco Ignacio Taibo ll, will arrive on Netflix in 2022.

7.4/10

A bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline.

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.

7.1/10

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul to Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defence of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middle-men and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold: that of a Chinese girl Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and that of a romance involving a young American woman on holiday in Havana.

In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.

7.2/10

A jet-setting model leads a freewheeling life in Mexico City until she falls in love with an artist.

5.6/10
8.6%

In a subway station, while waiting for his journey to continue, a boy talks with God about the creation. An informal conversion about the real dimension of our existences and personal demands, reminding us that we are just a small part of something bigger and nothing is as important as we believe it is.

Deep in the Douro river there is a legend about the ghost of a dead bride, who haunts the area. Regardless, a couple of lovers goes to an abandoned house near the river, where they are attacked by the undying bride.

6/10