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Stories Set in Lisbon
Trams, miradouros, Pessoa's haunts and fado cellars — Lisbon writes saudade into every story. These ten span heteronyms to Varela; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 24 books and 36 movies set in Lisbon.

Tabu
Lisbon Portugal 2010. Pilar a pious woman devoted to social causes maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

A Song of Lisbon
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon supported by his rich aunts whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact he devotes himself to a bohemian life preferring the popular fairs and pretty women especially…

Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years…

Shakira - Rock in Rio in Lisboa

Until the End of the World
In 1999 Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law — Dr. Sam…

Lisbon Story
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Mysteries of Lisbon
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis his dark origins and his pious works and the different fates of all those who trapped in a sinister web of love hate and crime cross paths with him through years of…

Colossal Youth
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes reconnecting with…

Vitalina Varela
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret illicit life.

Madonna - Madame X
Filmed in Lisbon Portugal the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance hailed by sold out theatrical audiences worldwide. The unprecedented intimate streaming experience will take viewers on a…
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