Ossos (1997)
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.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Costa
Actors: Anna Carvalho, Inês de Medeiros, Isabel Ruth, Mariya Lipkina, Nuno Vaz, Vanda Duarte
Miss Nobody (1996)
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Thrashin’ (1986)
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