Miguel Borges
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

Terra Nova
(2021)On the banks of Newfoundland in the early 1930's, the fishing vessel Terra Nova is struggling with their worst year to date when the captain makes a rash and potentially deadly decision to make a first time voyage to harsh waters outside Greenland.

Soldier Millions
(2018)AnÃbal Augusto Milhais, survivor of the La Lys battle, wanted nothing more than to live in peace, but he was pursued until his end by the heroic aura given to him by the ones he killed in the name of his country, Portugal. The story comes up from the memories of war that occurred twenty years before. Milhais guides us through his struggle for survival during the first Great War. When he gets to the telling of La Lys battle, on the 9th of April of 1918, the Portuguese forces are obliged to retreat. Milhais refuses to retreat and is left alone and isolated, lost in foreign territory only with his long companion and friend, a machine gun called Luisinha. He must now face his biggest challenge.

The Domain
(2019)Over the course of several tumultuous decades, a Portuguese landowner’s independence is threatened by rival political forces and family dysfunction.

Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
(2019)A tall ten-year-old girl is determined to figure out how the world works and heads on a heroic adventure through the streets of Lisbon.

522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father
(2019)Never going more than 522 steps beyond her home, an agoraphobic woman is forced to go on a trip out of the country following a tragic event.

A Shot in the Dark
(2005)In a Rio de Janeiro airport, a TAP stewardess kidnaps a two-month-old baby girl. Two years later, the distraught mother is living in Lisbon. In order to survive, she works in a "strip-tease" bar but spends most of her time in the airport hoping to find the stewardess who took her daughter. Then one night she is fired from her job and without money. She joins a gang of ex-security guards from the bar and stays in their hideout. She becomes involved with a series of bank robberies. Soon she is tracked by the police inspector who also seems to have something to hide.

The Dead Queen
(2018)Inspired by the true story of the Portuguese King Dom Pedro who unearthed his beloved (Ines) to crown her queen after her death, this film recounts this unparalleled passion story over three eras: - in the Middle Ages (original story), in the present time where Pedro and Ines are architects in a big city and, in a dystopian future, where people flee from the cities to the countryside to survive.

Carga
(2018)A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all tied into a human trafficking network. Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.