The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline
Released: 1997 // Runtime: 97m // Rating: 6.7
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.
Released: 2001 // Runtime: 171m // Rating: 6.7
An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Released: 2006 // Runtime: 155m // Rating: 7.1
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.
Released: 2014 // Runtime: 104m // Rating: 7.2
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Released: 2019 // Runtime: 124m // Rating: 6.6
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.
