Excellent movie, overlooked but now deserves your attention! A friend strongly recommended Night Train to Lisbon. Some of the reviews were good but several weren't that good, but we watched it anyway. What a surprise! This is a carefully crafted serious drama involving fate, politics, repression, and personal honesty and change. It may have been ahead of its time, as it came out in 2013. But with the world the way it is now in 2023, the film makes great sense. Terrific acting from seasoned veterans and (to me) unknowns. Having been to Portugal, the locations shots were captivating. But the key to this masterpiece is the overall sense of being caught in a place and time, the illusion of being in control and not in control of one's life and experiences. Not a miss-step in any way. If you can read up first on Portugal's history during the 1970's, especially about the Salarzar regime and the Carnation Revolution. So good, that I went out and got the book. This is a truly great and engaging movie. Don't miss it.