The Fontainhas Collection

5 movies

Films by Pedro Costa set in the neighborhood of Fontainhas with recurring characters Vanda, Ventura and Vitalina.

Movies

Ossos

6.8

1997

Movie

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

Ossos

1997

6.8

In Vanda's Room

6.7

2001

Movie

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

In Vanda's Room

2001

6.7

Colossal Youth

7.2

2006

Movie

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 people from his past.

Colossal Youth

2006

7.2

Horse Money

7.2

2014

Movie

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

Horse Money

2014

7.2

Vitalina Varela

6.6

2019

Movie

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.

Vitalina Varela

2019

6.6