The Little Bird of Ribeira (1960)
• February 12th, 1960 • 1h 24min
Drama, Family, Romance
Overview
Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Pelle the Conqueror
Released on: 1987-12-21
Drama
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Released on: 1989-04-07
Drama
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...
My Beautiful Laundrette
Released on: 1985-11-16
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...
I Stand Alone
Released on: 1999-02-17
Drama, Thriller
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...
Nowhere in Africa
Released on: 2001-12-11
Drama
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...
Golden Door
Released on: 2006-09-22
History, Drama, Romance
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...
Spanglish
Released on: 2004-12-17
Drama, Comedy
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...
Tears of the Black Tiger
Released on: 2000-09-29
Romance, Comedy, Action, Western
Dum, the son of a peasant falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy and respected family...
Lady Caliph
Released on: 1970-12-31
Drama
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her confli...
Under Capricorn
Released on: 1949-09-08
Drama, History
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...
The Class
Released on: 2008-09-24
Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...
Lulu and Jimi
Released on: 2009-01-22
Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got th...
A Husband for Anna
Released on: 1953-08-22
Drama, Romance
Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is ...
Last Days of Emanuel Raposo
Released on: 2021-07-23
Comedy, Drama
In the 1990s, a long time TV host from the Azores Islands comes to terms with his career's end in a ...
Streets of Rio
Released on: 2008-01-30
Drama, Crime
Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees th...
Angels and Insects
Released on: 1995-09-10
Drama, Romance
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...
My Brother Is an Only Child
Released on: 2007-03-28
Comedy, Drama, History
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
Veer-Zaara
Released on: 2004-11-12
Drama, Romance
Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a wo...
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Released on: 1964-06-19
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...
Jellyfish
Released on: 2019-02-15
Drama
In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, be...