Mysteries of Lisbon
All Films
•
4h 26m
Directed by Raúl Ruiz | 267 mins | 2010
It is a rare thing for one of a filmmaker’s final works to rank among their greatest, and their most classically sumptuous—but such is the case with Ruiz’s sweeping, four-and-a-half-hour-long adaptation of Portuguese author Camilo Castelo Branco’s novel of the same name, published in 1854. Beginning with the plight of João, an apparent orphan who discovers that he’s from noble stock, the film expands to accommodate an ensemble of Dickensian proportions and intrigues to scale.
Up Next in All Films
-
Night Light
Directed by Kim Torres | 14 mins | 2022
In this impressionistic, Cannes-selected short, set in rural Costa Rica and tinged with melancholy, 17-year-old Ale strives to sustain the playful innocence of her two younger siblings after they’re abandoned by their mother. -
No Sleep Till
Directed by Alexandra Simpson | 93 mins | 2024
The threat of an impending hurricane has sent most of the residents of and visiting tourists to the coastal Florida town of Atlantic Beach scurrying for cover—but Simpson’s ravishing mood piece lingers behind with a handful of holdouts ignoring the ... -
Oasis
Directed by Lee Chang-dong | 133 mins | 2002
Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu), just out of prison, very little reformed, and shunned by his family, finds an unlikely soulmate in the person of Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), a woman with severe cerebral palsy—and the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run for whic...
