O Fantasma

O Fantasma

No one can live without love.

NR 2000 · 87 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.

Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues · Written by José Neves

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Ricardo Meneses Sérgio
Beatriz Torcato Fátima
André Barbosa João
Eurico Vieira Virgilio
Joaquim Oliveira Mário
Florindo Lourenço Matos
Rodrigo Garín Young man in bathroom
Jorge Almeida Police 1
Maria Paola Porru João's mother
Luis Zorro Young man in Sérgio's room
Salomão Man with doberman
João Rui Guerra da Mata Police 2

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