Best Portuguese animation movies

Fragments (2016)

This is a film about how war settles in the bodies of the people who are forced to experience it directly. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.

I don't eat strawberries, I don't like the color (2022)

Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be.

Before We Squeak (2025)

A strange golden insect crawls into a bedroom on a stifling summer night. As it invades the sleeping body, the walls begin to shift and pulse — and the nightmare begins.

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...

The Wide Eyed Girl and the Long Legged Boy (2023)

This is a love story full of encounters and mismatches, in which resides a constant presence of an incessant search for the relationships of happiness and self- esteem between the two characters.

The Medic and the Duchess (1984)

Pixilation of the portuguese fado "O Médico e a Duquesa".

The Gravedigger (2012)

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.

Fado Lusitano (1994)

Portugal feels himself a little country in the tail of Europe. Has a wandering heart, an adventurous spirit, an embittered soul and an obedient body.

There's a little bit of Nikki: The Red Berry (2006)

Wondrous Myths & Legends: The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster (1999)

This home video release features two episodes from the Wondrous Myths and Legends series, in which schoolgirl Lisa and her brother Nick accidentally discover the Cavern of Mythos, which allows them to travel into another world where the great myths of history are fact -- and they've become active participants. In "The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster," Lisa and Nick are transported to Scotland, where they encounter the famous Loch Ness monster and discover he's not the menace they expected. And "The Valor of St. George, the Dragonslayer" finds Nick and Lisa in medieval days, where Nick is believed to be a valiant knight and is sent out to do battle with a ill-tempered, fire-breathing dragon.

Odd Is an Egg (2016)

Odd is terrified of his head, until one day he falls in love with Gunn who is both fearless and happy in life. Odd's life is turned upside down and he is freed from his worries in the most unexpected way.

Tragic Story with Happy Ending (2005)

A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.

De Imperio (2023)

The pieces silently start gathering into the room, while the giants, unaware, keep living their macabre routines.

The Night (1999)

It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.

Ride (2018)

Quick cutting provides the speed in this tribute to two wheeled transport.

O Natal do Bruno Aleixo (2022)

Bruno Aleixo has an accident the week before Christmas, leaving him in a coma. However, doctors are unanimous: they do not give a physiological reason for this comatose state, so they conclude that it is of a psychological nature. Bruno Aleixo, an assumed hater of the Christmas spirit, simply refuses to wake up. Using the recognized archetype of Charles Dickens' Christmas Tale, sleeping Bruno Aleixo relives, in dreams, several traumatic Christmases of the past, present and future.

SHSHSH - A TV Untooned (1999)

A TV set awakens and tries to tune himself in, but with no success. When he accidentally comes across the weather channel, it’s the weather girl, rather than the weather, which catches his attention...

SpongeBob SquarePants: Heroes of Bikini Bottom (2011)

Evildoers, and everyone else, beware! Mermaidman and Barnacleboy have opened their locker of memories for SpongeBob and Patrick (MISTAKE!), the Dirty Bubble, Man Ray, The Atomic Flounder and The Sinister Slug have gathered in Bikini Bottom, Mrs. Puff's working the summer at the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob's attempting to go a full day without crying, Gary's new play pal Puffy Fluffy is a real terror, Squidward cleans up Bikini Bottom with "help" from SpongeBob, SpongeBob and Patrick try to share a toy, SpongeBob nearly ruins Mr. Krabs' tightwad reputation at the Cheapest Crab Convention, and oceans more!

A Journey to Cape Verde (2010)

This is the story of a sixty day long walk in Cape Verde. No mobile phone, no watch, no plans for what to do next – only the bare essentials in the backpack. Out traveller explores the mountains, the villages, the sea, a talking tortoise, the goats, the music, the dry haze, the people of Cape Verde and an essential part of himself.

Cellfie (2019)

A scientist seeks answers by observing the world through the lens of her microscope.

O Boneco Rebelde (1942)

Loose animated sequences, recovered by Cinemateca Portuguesa through the Tobis Portuguesa labs, from several reels of nitrate film damaged by time. Although incomplete, it is the oldest known portuguese animated film from which some original film actualy survived.

Contact (2017)

Somewhere between reality and fantasy, a woman's consciousness is awoken through her inner journey that reflects the world around her.

História antes de uma História (2014)

Dr. K is an old man who loves hiking, always curious and looking for new knowledge. At some point along the way, strange and mysterious objects appear on your way. Little by little, Dr. K realizes that the objects will actually help him unravel a much bigger mystery: the right techniques for creating an animation.

Sininho - Os Jogos do Vale das Fadas (2016)

Kali, the Little Vampire (2012)

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

A Mind Sang (2019)

In the last moments before giving birth, a mother sees how some moments of her life and her child are similar.

Her Name Was Gisberta (2023)

Gisberta Salce, called Gis by her friends and family, was a Brazilian trans woman who was tortured for days and at last brutally murdered by 14 young men in Portugal in 2006.

Drop by Drop (2017)

The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion.

The Last Bath (2020)

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

Tale About the Cat and the Moon (1997)

A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the tale about the cat and the moon.