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A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.
Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.
Three brothers are confronted with an imposing father who avail them the heritage, identity and emotional intelligence: seven weeks is the deadline for each of them find the respect and love of a woman.
In a time preceding the Carnation Revolution, we meet two men: one young, one old. One is fleeing the country, and the other helps him escape through Trás-os-Montes. While they make “the leap,” they speak about their lives and their troubles… This is an ode to those who fought for Freedom, and to these fifty springs that have passed. Throughout 13 performed songs, we travel across the country, hand in hand with several Portuguese people who tells us their stories through music, until we get back to this young man who runs away and returns to Lisbon, shortly after the Revolution, to reunite with his loved ones and live in freedom.
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.
A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.
The eternal guilt, the attempt at redemption, the infinite ramifications. There is no turning back to what Marília has done.
A young girl goes through a series of strange events after she is dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday and loses her job.
The Woman opens the front door. Two men greet her by saying "Good morning my lady, we came to install the fear.".
Since childhood, Isabel remembers her mother's recurring request: to be cremated. And now that the day has come, with her husband Daniel at her side, it is the mother's voice that she hears, which surprises her because the mother is there, in the urn, about to be cremated, as she always wanted. And since then, she has been making herself heard, accompanied by a letter left in her will, with precise instructions, which, being drastic, may end Isabel's marriage.
Something unexpected brings Vitor back to the house where he was born. His return awakes ghosts from the past and a war long ago locked within this family.
Inspired by the biography of the portuguese painter Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro, known as Maluda, who found the stage of her art in Lisbon.
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life
On its surface, a story about a jealous and insecure man, but it takes us to a reflection about loneliness and despair.
14th century. Santiago obsessed with a punishing God, on an initiatory trip on his way to Santiago de Compostela, sees his chastity and aptitude put to the test. Santiago rejects the sin of the flesh and eventually falls into a trap. He is unjustly arrested and sentenced to death.
Nídia is a woman going through a depression due to lack of affection from her husband and the growing solitary environment that becomes unbearable. In the midst of all this, Nídia begins to have visions of a child who seems to be the only thing that comforts in your day and it will change the course and your inner perspective.
