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- It's a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it's an "etnofiction": portraits the typical characters of Terra Fria, the North-east of Portugal, showing secular habits, in a majestic rural ambient. It's one of the works that represents the New Cinema (Novo Cinema) portuguese movement, and one of the first portuguese docudrama.
- Interview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.
- The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
- The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short lived because his female boss makes him her lover. He longs for the coffee shops, and the companions of old, but he doesn't get true love from anyone.
- A week in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, seen from a perspective unlike the touristic banalities.
- A couple of traditional fishermen are linked by a secret vote of chastity. One day, they take in a wounded gypsy man, out of their Christian piety. As time goes by, a relationship, and love emerges between the healthy young woman and the gypsy. The reaction of the local society, and the explosion of repressed sentiments will come to a swirling vortex of violence - abduction, shootings, and forced sex.
- A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters financial difficulties and finds herself involved with shady characters, a situation that leads to a mysterious murder. The net closes around her.
- Artur, in Lisbon for his holidays, wanders aimlessly, and is picked-up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in Lisbon for holidays, but also trying to escape from a mysterious, dark passion. Artur and Joana come together, find common roots in their rural background, but their union comes to an end, as someone from Joana's past interferes.
- Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a medicine doctor, researcher on blood deseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill young woman.
- By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
- A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
- Maria is a sweet child. She hasn't father and doesn't like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
- The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary process in Portugal, from April 25, 1974 until mid-1976.
- A film crew goes to Várzea dos Amarelos visit the mother of the director, fixing some of the moments of the local life and listens to the old lady.
- Disparate images from daily life, ancient and present, the production of a guitar, and the contrast of old school singers with modern interpreters.
- An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and Massey-Ferguson, and subsidiary industries for car parts.
- After her mother's death, Sofia returns from a Swiss college to her family's luxurious villa, in Cascais. Through the relashionship between her father, Henrique, and his lover Laura, she will discover the complexity, egothistic, discrete and hypocrite way of life - from which there is no escape.
- The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his former poetic and philosophical works.
- Music video of The Legendary Tigerman. This video was made for the live shows.
- A feast of pity. An angel. A demon. A girl. The musical revolves around visual elements that clash with the performance of Catrina, a young woman trapped in a place that is said to be her eighteen-year-old party.
- During a revolution, the people won't wait for lengthy judicial procedures.
- Human use of wood as working tools for the benefit of welfare as well as torture implement, and the production line of a modern industry of laminated wood and plywood.
- In an imaginary future, Portugal is made up of an association of states, North and South, with specific zones of influence, their own armies and various TV channels that broadcast only official information. Lisbon has become a city under surveillance inhabited by a repressed, militarized population. Among those people, a man and a woman begin a subversive love affair. They are Antonio, a second lieutenant in the Militia, and Maria, a technician in the anti-seismic brigades.
- The child and her relationship with the law, from the penal codes that condemned her to the death penalty to the contemporary lenient codes such as the New York City law that condemns them to detention for behaving like hippies and running away from school. The document uses archive documents and film clips, as well as direct interviews with children in Portuguese institutions of child protection.
- Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.
- The work conditions and the present life styles tend to cause fatigue. It is wise to adopt more natural life styles and practice pause exercises specially designed to augment the workers' welfare and diminish industrial accidents.