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.
Casts Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Teresa Salgueiro, Manoel de Oliveira, Vasco Sequeira, Joel Cunha Ferreira, Sofia Bénard da Costa, Vera Cunha Rocha, Elisabete Cunha Rocha, Ricardo Colares
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sidewalks of New York
Virgin
Sixty Six
You Are Alone
Mind the Gap
The Pleasure Drivers
Final Justice
Ben & Arthur
Ibid
4
Lost in Translation
King Kong
Bed and Board
Contempt
Barton Fink
Harold and Maude
Wag the Dog
Transamerica
O-Kay for Sound
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sidewalks of New York
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 2001
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.Virgin
IMDB 4.5 | Jun , 2003
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.Sixty Six
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2006
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.You Are Alone
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2005
"We're gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!" But it's a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. Daphne, a Yale-bound high school senior whose depression has blurred her sense of reality, works as an escort, advertising her services online. Her next door neighbor catches her as the "entertainment" at his nephew's bachelor party. With her hidden life precariously hanging in the balance, Daphne agrees to spend one hour with her neighbor. Initially confrontational, Daphne and her neighbor begin to shed their bitter layers of personal disappointment and general cynicism by talking about sex.Mind the Gap
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 2004
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.The Pleasure Drivers
IMDB 4.7 | Jun , 2006
"The Pleasure Drivers" lays out three separate interconnected stories involving an adulterous therapist, a young sociopath call girl, a vicious lesbian hit woman, a white trash kidnapper, and a brain-damaged ex-cult guru. It's described as funny, sexy, edgy and dangerous. The Pleasure Drivers energetically explores the shadow side of Los Angeles and how it gleefully relates to the gasoline of libido.Final Justice
IMDB 2.5 | Oct , 1984
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.Ben & Arthur
IMDB 2.4 | Sep , 2002
A pair of recently married gay men are threatened by one of the partners' brother, a religious fanatic who plots to murder them after being ostracized by his church.Ibid
IMDB 4.2 | Oct , 2008
Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well scripted journey into the depths of the American psyche. Recently escaped from Trinity Psychiatric Center, an 'alternative' institution for the wayward, the pair hits the road on a mission from God. Appearing in the form of an aged cowboy named Don, the Almighty enlists Lionel and Tin to inscribe the Final Commandments in order to save the world from its ultimate destruction; rumored to be soon. Plagued by their own madness they begin to uncover their own dark past which might ultimately lead to their undoing, or at the very least, a serious re-write.4
IMDB 5.4 | Jan , 2005
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?Lost in Translation
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 2003
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.King Kong
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 2005
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.Bed and Board
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1970
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.Contempt
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1963
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.Barton Fink
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1991
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.Harold and Maude
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1971
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.Wag the Dog
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1997
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.Transamerica
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2005
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.O-Kay for Sound
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 1937
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2006
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing