List of Portuguese films of 2016

The following is a list of Portuguese films that were first released in 2016.

Highest-grossing films

The following is a list of the 10 highest-grossing domestic films in Portugal that were first released in 2016, as of December 28, 2016, according to the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual).[1]

Rank	Title	Gross
1	A Canção de Lisboa	€944,564.76
2	O Amor É Lindo... Porque Sim!	€149,533.33
3	Letters from War	€110,071.54
4	Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor	€56,914.00
5	A Mãe É que Sabe	€47,379.62
6	Jogo de Damas	€31,537.22
7	Axilas	€18,276.61
8	The Ornithologist	€18,386.57
9	Os Belos Dias de Aranjuez	€12,908.00
10	Cinzento e Negro	€7,493.80

List of films

Release date	Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes	Ref
January 28	Jogo de Damas	Patrícia Sequeira	Ana Nave, Ana Padrão, Fátima Belo, Maria João Luís and Rita Blanco	Drama		[2][3]
January 28	Quatro	João Botelho		Documentary		[1]
February 11	Lisbon Revisited	Edgar Pêra		Documentary		[4]
March 3	Gelo	Luís Galvão Teles, Gonçalo Galvão Teles		Drama, fantasy		[4]
March 10	O Amor É Lindo... Porque Sim!	Vicente Alves do Ó		Comedy		[4]
March 17	Posto Avançado do Progresso	Hugo Vieira da Silva		Drama		[4]
March 31	John From	João Nicolau		Drama		[4]
April 21	Gesto	António Borges Correia		Documentary		[4]
May 5	Axilas	José Fonseca e Costa		Drama		[4]
May 5	Mudar de Vida: José Mário Branco, Vida e Obra	Nelson Guerreiro, Pedro Fidalgo		Documentary		[4]
May 5	Rio Corgo	Sérgio da Costa, Maya Kosa		Documentary		[4]
May 19	Aqui em Lisboa: Episódios da Vida da Cidade	Gabriel Abrantes, Denis Côté		Drama		[4]
May 19	Cinzento e Negro	Luís Filipe Rocha		Drama, thriller		[4]
June 16	Grandes Esperanças	Miguel Marques		Documentary		[4]
June 30	Olmo e a Gaivota	Petra Costa, Lea Glob		Documentary		[4]
July 14	A Canção de Lisboa	Pedro Varela		Comedy		[4]
August 25	Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor	Luís Galvão Teles		Comedy		[4]
September 1	Letters from War	Ivo M. Ferreira		Drama		[4]
October 13	O Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira e Eu	João Botelho		Documentary		[4]
October 20	The Ornithologist	João Pedro Rodrigues		Drama		[4]
October 20	Rasgar o Passado	João Costa, Luís Diogo, Cláudio Jordão, José Miguel Moreira		Drama		[4]
November 3	A Toca do Lobo	Catarina Mourão		Documentary		[4]
November 10	SACA: O Filme de Tiago Pires	Júlio Adler		Documentary		[4]
December 1	Estive em Lisboa e Lembrei de Você	José Barahona		Drama		[4]
December 8	A Mãe É que Sabe	Nuno Rocha		Comedy		[4]
December 15	The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez	Wim Wenders		Drama		[4]
December 29	Never Ever	Benoît Jacquot		Drama		[4]

See also

• 2016 in Portugal

References

1. "Ranking dos filmes nacionais estreados - 2016" (PDF). ica-ip.pt (in Portuguese). Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
2. "Jogo de Damas". Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 17, 2016.
3. Ana Sousa Dias (January 28, 2016). "Jogo de Damas. Cinco amigas, uma casa e um funeral". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 17, 2016.
4. "Longas metragens estreadas - 2016" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual. Retrieved 15 September 2017.