Best Portuguese music movies

Black Cloaks (1947)

The great fadista, Amelia Rodrigues, made her screen debut in Capas Negras, which took its name from the black capes worn by the students in the university city of Coimbra, where the film is set. The action begins in a tavern where a group of former students are reminiscing about their time at the university. One of the students, Jose Duarte then breaks into song, performing an impromptu fado in the local Coimbra style. The tavern owner's niece, the aptly named Maria Lisboa promptly retaliates with a fado of the Lisbon variety. The melodramatic plot then centers on the frustrated romance between these two characters, and the soundtrack is essentially a musical duel between these two different styles of Portugal's national song.

Fado, a Singer's Story (1947)

Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.

Os Três da Vida Airada (1952)

A typesetter is an amateur stage director, and his niece and an employee are stage actors. When they have an opportunity to go professional, differences arise between the two men. Things get worse when the employee starts seeing the girl even when there is no need for rehearsals - and the uncle opposes their relationship.

Uma Hora de Amor (1964)

António, a factory worker of immense musical talent, is discovered by a business man who launches him as a singer. Nevertheless, this changes the man's life for better and for worst.

Fado Corrido (1964)

A Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting the love of a teenager, recently arrived from Africa.

Queen and Adam Lambert: Rock in Rio 2015 (2015)

Thirty years after a classical concert at the Rock in Rio, perhaps the best known and celebrated in the history of the festival, Queen returned in 2015 to the main stage. Accompanied by US singer Adam Lambert, runner-up of "reality show" American Idol. The remaining members of Queen - guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor - played 23 songs over two hours to a warm audience.

Dream Theater: Dark Side of the Moon (2005)

Dream Theater’s entire performance of the legendary Pink Floyd album recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, England on October 25th 2005. Featuring Special Guests: Theresa Thomason on Vocals, Norbert Stachel on Sax. 1) Speak To Me / Breathe 2) On The Run 3) Time 4) The Great Gig In The Sky 5) Money 6) Us And Them 7) Any Colour You Like 8) Brain Damage 9) Eclipse. Special Bonus Features Interviews, rehearsal and soundcheck footage. Additional Pink Floyd covers Hey You, Echoes Pt.1 and Comfortably Numb featuring Queensrÿche.

Casting Crowns - Until the Whole World Hears (2010)

Until the Whole World Hears... Live was recorded live at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina, and released in August 31, 2010 by Reunion Records. The album was nominated for a Dove Award for Long Form Music Video of the Year at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards. In an unprecedented six-year span with nearly 4.5 million career album sales, a GRAMMY Award, an American Music Award, 23 Dove Awards and 8 chart-topping radio singles, Casting Crowns remains focused on discipleship through music. With lead singer and songwriter Mark Hall's 18 years in youth ministry, the band's message remains rooted in the student services he has led on a weekly basis since 2001, at Eagles Landing Baptist church near Atlanta.

Muse - Rock In Rio Lisboa (2018)

Xana Toc Toc a festa é nossa (2012)

Bryan Adams - Live in Lisbon (2005)

Concert video release by Canadian musician Bryan Adams Live in Lisbon.

Maroon 5 - Rock In Rio Lisboa (2016)

Evanescence: Rock in Rio 2011 (2011)

Evanescence at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 02, 2011. Setlist: 01. What You Want / 02. Going Under / 03. The Other Side / 04. Weight of the World / 05. Made of Stone / 06. My Immortal / 07. My Heart is Broken / 08. Your Star / 09. Sick / 10. The Change / 11. Sober / 12. Imaginary / 13. Bring Me to My Life

Xana Toc Toc (2011)

Tangerine Dream - Live in Lisbon (2010)

25th March, 2010, 9:30 pm. TD entered the stage of the beautiful big Coliseum theatre in the middle of Lisbon, Portugal’s capital. After a very strange live cello quartet performance followed by a suddenly ’wiped out’ opening with Linda playing an outstanding grand piano solo, you´ll hear what TD stands for after more than four decades: the style, the sound, the compositions. Here – once more – you can witness why this band is original and incomparable – just ´in it´ for the art of timeless music

Noiserv: Centro Cultural de Belém (2015)

Everything should be perfect even if no one's there (2014)

Os Quatro e Meia ao Vivo no Convento São Francisco (2018)

a-ha | Rock in Rio Lisboa 2022 (2022)

a-ha took to the stage in Lisbon on 25 June 2022 to play at the Rock in Rio Lisboa Festival – their first ever concert in Portugal. And with 70,000 people in the audience, it was the largest show of the Hunting High and Low Tour.

30 Seconds To Mars | Rock Am Ring (2010)

30 Seconds to Mars performance at Rock am Ring in Germany.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Rock In Rio Lisboa (2016)

Cesária Évora (2023)

World renowned performer Cesária Évora’s voice took her from poverty to stardom. With previously unseen footage and insights into the singer’s life, the film follows her struggles and success.

Long Way From Home (How Did We Get Here?) (2017)

Evanescence: Rock in Rio Lisboa 2024 (2024)

Carnival in the Sahel (1979)

Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during which the limits are transgressed, the world is circumnavigated, and the dominator becomes the dominated, in addition to being an explosion of music and sensations, a great collective performance in which the characteristics of négritude-identity comes forth.

Depeche Mode - Tour of the Universe: Live in Lisbon (2009)

Lisbon rushed in large to attend the second concert of Depeche Mode in the riverside room: three hours before the climb to the stage of the protagonists, the queue to enter the room was considerable. Depeche Mode showed, as usual, that after 29 years they still are an amazing band live.

Loose Ends (2016)

Schrödinger's cat may have nothing to do with this. It doesn't matter if, inside the box, the cat is alive, dead or undead. It is a paradox. Still, a film about a Portuguese rock band can begin with an introduction to quantum physics, when some of these basic concepts are used as a starting point for the creative process. The director Ricardo Oliveira recorded the daydreams of recording the third album of originals by Capitão Fausto: Capitão Fausto Têm os Dias Contados. And when in one of the songs - “Corazón” - is heard at a certain point: “… Pontas soltas. Isso é comigo. E por isso queres também ser assim. Pontas soltas. Isso é comigo. Para estragar um disco tenho-me a mim…”, it is clear that the band of Tomás Wallenstein, Manuel Palha, Francisco Ferreira, Domingos Coimbra and Salvador Seabra reached the age of majority and tied such loose ends. More than a diary, it is an experience.

Sentada à Mesa, O Sentimento de Amor, em uma Colagem. (0)

A Morte de Carlos Gardel (2011)

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

Hotel Müller (2010)

An homage to Pina Bausch.