Best Portuguese action movies

A Vingança dos Doze (1970)

Bad Investigate (2018)

Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent.

The Call (2015)

Seven years ago a young man murdered his parents, was sent to a mental institute after his departure from it, he returns to his life surrounded by crime, with an insatiable desire for revenge.

A Shot in the Dark (2005)

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...

Cândido (2024)

A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life

88 (2002)

A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.

Cronos - A Relíquia do Tempo (2021)

Inversão (2011)

On a day in January, working on a documentary, listening to people's accounts, I realized that the world was upside down and nobody had noticed that. Several social values had changed, a daughter who kills her father, another father who kills his child, an absent mother without a place, violence and the strange feeling that all that is bad comes from the lower classes and the politicians. Nobody noticed that the bad comes from the inside ... inside us, what was not achieved or no longer brings pleasure, everything comes to light in a selfish attitude to be fine! Nobody is so good or so bad.

Tiro Certo (2025)

Seven Bullets for Selma (1967)

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

Real Playing Game (2013)

In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.

Enemy Unknown (2020)

A group of mercenaries, goes on a rescue mission to save a group of soldiers in enemy lines, but when they get there, they find something never seen before, now they must join forces to survive this hellish nightmare.

Aliens Redemption (2019)

The Weyland Yutani company regains its power, and something happens on Planet Xenon, communications ceased 6 days ago, and Colonel Jacinto sends a team of commandos to check the situation.

Best Cop Ever (2024)

Two different movies are clashing, causing reality to fall into chaos. An immortal hero is leaving a path of destruction on a lighthearted world. It's now up to Ever to find him, and rebel against the higher powers that doomed them.

Contrato (2009)

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

Into the Shadows (2024)

Imagine a world post climate change, where the ozone layer is depleted by 50%. In this world, stepping into the light results in severe burns and skin cancer. In a nocturnal society, a young adult woman jouries to find the cure that her sister desperately needs. Along the way, she finds that she too has a deep need that has long gone unacknowledged.

The Strange Inhabitant (2023)

In 1200, a sacred relic is sought by the Mad Bishop, surrounded by the Knights Templars, he sends them on a mission to recover it, but that won't be so easy to achieve.

The Lair (2022)

Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

Enemy Unknown (2020)

A group of mercenaries, goes on a rescue mission to save a group of soldiers in enemy lines, but when they get there, they find something never seen before, now they must join forces to survive this hellish nightmare.

Infinitium (2017)

In a world of darkness and fear, ruled by mercenary's and savages, the search for the ring of INFINITIUM, has led a girl and her friends to a forsaken land, after discovering the secret of the ring, she must reach safety.

2 Duros de Roer (2022)

An unlikely team of cops and a student, live a crazy day, meet the most ridiculous characters, and unmask a drug trafficking operation with disastrous consequences not just for the city, but for the whole world.

Consequências (2009)

Mario and Alice are inside a car driving to the airport for one more vacation. Although, Mario has to make one last drop at a client's before heading out. Alice questions him. She wants to know more. Who is this man by her side? Is she ready to find out?

Good Times Bad Times (2020)

The good times we wished we had lived, might have not been the times we imagined people lived

Serpentina (2023)

The Portuguese Falcon (2015)

A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".

Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo (2012)

One tries to con. Another keeps stealing. And there's even someone that doesn't know what he's doing... The truth is life is hard for Cultara, Rato and Bino. But it all changes when Tone, the man of the world, returns home to save his dad on the deathbed. And when the four get together, they leave for the most surprising adventure yet. If everything was bad, it's about to get worst!

Balas & Bolinhos: Só Mais Uma Coisa (2024)

The final chapter of the Balas & Bolinhos saga.

O Ninja das Caldas (2001)

He just wanted to be happy but they don't let him go in peace...

Chasing Life (2002)

Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero) is an action/comedy about 25 year old lovable loser Alex who, when his life hits rock bottom and decides to end it all, shares his dogs euthanasia poison just moments before a dramatic turn of events sends him hilariously and desperately seeking the antidote which he must find within 4 hours or die.

Blood Lines (2018)

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.