List of films set in Portugal

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This list is of foreign films set in Portugal, at least in part. In the early 1940s, Portugal was the setting for over a dozen films, depicting the city as a place of "international intrigue". [1] In subsequent decades, the trope of Lisbon as a city of espionage and foreign conflicts continued to endure, although films started to branch beyond this genre from the 1950s onward. [1]

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