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Ready to return to the Wild West? Cinema no Cruzeiro enters 2026 with a series dedicated to one of the most influential genres in film history: the Western. The programme begins on 12 January and continues on the 19th and 26th at the Carlos Avilez Auditorium, at the Estoril Arts Academy, with free entry, subject only to venue capacity.
Throughout the month, four films produced between the 1950s and 1970s will be shown, directed by key figures in American cinema, who both reinforced and questioned the myths of the West.
Among the films to be screened is The Wild Bunch, by Sam Peckinpah, which opens the series on Monday 12 January at 21:00, with its twilight, violent vision of the Western. A week later, at the same time, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, by Robert Altman, offers an anti-epic take on the founding of a community on the American frontier.
On 26 January, the first screening starts earlier, at 18:30, with The Shooting, by Monte Hellman, an existential Western marked by wandering and a final confrontation, followed at 21:00 by Johnny Guitar, by Nicholas Ray, a 1953 film that blends melodrama and Western in a stylised and morally charged approach.
Academia de Artes do Estoril, Av das Acácias 2 (Estoril). 12 Jan, Mon 21.00; 19 Jan, Mon 21.00; 26 Jan, Mon 18.30 e 21.00. Free entry
There’s more happening around Cascais.
Music fans should keep an eye on Coala Festival Portugal, which has just announced its first confirmed names – Slow J, Bonga and Lulu Santos – for its next edition. And if culture is more your thing, mark 2026 on the calendar: the State Contemporary Art Collection is set to move to Cascais, with the new CACE Centre in Alcabideche bringing together a major national collection under one roof.