Research Guides: Portuguese Language and Literature: Films

Films in the Library

Visit the Library's Film and Video Collection to view these films and many more.

The Sound of Rio : Brasileirinho
Call Number: DVD 10103
O estranho caso de Angélica = The strange case of Angelica
Call Number: DVD 10947
Mistérios de Lisboa
Call Number: DVD 11316
Byebye Brasil
Call Number: DVD 8356
Letters from Fontainhas : three films by Pedro Costa
Call Number: DVD 8370

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Cinemateca Brasileira

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Covers hundreds of academic & popular film journals. Contains comprehensive television periodical indexing until 2000. TV-related articles from film periodicals continue to be indexed. (Coverage: 1972 --) See below for information about silent era film archives.
Also included is the Treasures from Film Archives dataset; a database containing credits & holdings information about the silent-era film holdings of film archives from around the world. It is conceived as a tool to aid the work of preservation & scholarly research, & provides brief identification information on over 40,500 works. Most records in this database describe films made before 1929, but there are also records for a few silent works produced during the sound era.

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Finding Foreign Language Films

DELCAT Discovery is the best catalog to search if you are looking for feature films in a foreign language. Search with the keywords 'feature films', and use the search limiters along the left-hand side of the screen under 'Refine Your Search' and 'Language'. Select a language of interest, such as Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, etc. These searches can be further limited by 'Year'.