The Dead Queen

The Dead Queen

2018 · 120 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, History, Romance

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.

Directed by António Ferreira · Written by António Ferreira

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Cast

Joana de Verona Inês
Diogo Amaral Pedro
Vera Kolodzig Constança
João Lagarto Afonso
Miguel Borges Pero Coelho
Miguel Monteiro Bispo / Médico / Ancião
Custódia Gallego Beatriz
António Olaio Paciente
Pedro Chau Guarda Real
Cláudia Carvalho Mulher povo / Secretária / Mulher comunidade
Kaló Paciente
Cristovão Campos Estevão

Make it a double feature

3h 29m together

The Dead Queen

Magnetick Pathways

Both from António Ferreira.

More from António FerreiraSee all →

Embargoed

Embargoed · 2010

The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last.

Magnetick Pathways

Magnetick Pathways · 2019

Magnetick Pathways

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory · 2012

Posfácio at the Clothing Factory

Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.

Super Vodka

Super Vodka · 2012

MovieDramaAction

Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too.

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work · 2011

From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work

MovieDocumentary

There are hundreds of sex workers to whom the protection of the law at a labour and civilian level is not recognised. For that reason, in a similar way to what happens in many countries, they demand the end of the discrimination, the change of the law and the social power that has been denied to them. This film is a journey into the underworld of sex workers and their struggle for labour rights.

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone · 2007

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

MovieDocumentary

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

Fatal Gel

Fatal Gel · 1996

The first short film directed by António Ferreira, featuring Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta).

Jongo

Armindo and Helena celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Saturday's Lunch

Saturday's Lunch · 2013

Saturday's Lunch

A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships.

Yellow Sunglasses

Yellow Sunglasses · 2021

Yellow Sunglasses

Julia, a thirty-year-old newly separated and in search of a life change, finds two new friends. The three begin to live an intense friendship that turns into a love triangle in which their frustrations and fears of not knowing if they will manage to be who they dreamed to be when they were younger.

Low Tide

Low Tide · 2012

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

The Cause and the Shadow

The Cause and the Shadow · 2015

The Cause and the Shadow

MovieDocumentary

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary.

Pay Per View

Pay Per View · 2007

A blind man. A belvedere. One coin.

Bela America

Bela America · 2023

MovieComedyDrama

Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the President.

The Beheading Game

The Beheading Game · 2013

The Beheading Game

Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.

More Like This

Street Flow 3

Street Flow 3 · 2026

Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter