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- A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.
- A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
- Set in the beautiful and romantic city of Lisbon, the love story between a shy Brazilian man and a fearless Portuguese woman is haunted by stories from their past.
- April 1974. The Federal Councellor, annoyed by the anti-establishment tone of The French speaking Swiss radio channel, imposes "safer" subjects on Philippe de Roulet, the programs director. To please him, de Roulet sends to Portugal a team composed of Julie, a dedicated feminist, Cauvin, a former war reporter sidelined since he started losing memory, and Bob, a sound technician close to retirement, with the mission to report on the impact of Swiss aid to the country. They comply more or less reluctantly, but the results of their investigation are so pathetic that they decide to drop the whole thing and to drive back to Lausanne. This is exactly the time when their path crosses that of a trio of Belgian journalists who tell them that a full-scale revolution is under way...
- A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century.
- Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
- A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be.
- Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
- Two stories about the greatest seducer of all time, Giacomo Casanova.
- 19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful, and modern, and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.
- Ricardo could have been a typical teenager in Lisbon in the 90s.
- 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 young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.
- A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
- A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
- A surreal dark comedy about the controversial issue of euthanasia.
- Luiza Albuquerque is in the process of preparing for the wedding of her daughter Teresa. The bride is not very convinced, on the eve of the ceremony she meets Miguel Rosa. He saves her from a conflict in the middle of the airport when Teresa goes to get her sister Isabel, coming from New York for the wedding. Teresa falls in love with Miguel but puts the love of both in the hands of destiny. Mário Albuquerque's company has been embezzled by its chief financial officer and his secretary Leonor, leave him in misery. Luiza finds herself in misery and she'll do anything in her power to stay afloat and keep her life of appearances.
- Margo gave up her career for the sake of her husband and now feels aggrieved and abandoned.
- You're in a great rush, to arrive at that agitation. To spend eight hours alienating yourself. But you already do that from Monday to Friday. And at the Club, you're the one paying.
- In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
- Luisa, a Portuguese Supreme Court Judge, is given the Camarate File, the investigation of the accident that led to the death of Portuguese Prime-Minister and his accompanists on December the 4th, 1980. She must decide whether the case goes to trial or is to be archived...
- Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
- 'Some things are deadlier than death itself'
- 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.
- Lidia struggles to cope with her newborn baby and her boyfriend. Her brother Lauro, divorced with a son, grapples with accepting his bisexuality. They get closer on a journey of rediscovery and profound inner transformation.
- Jorge is a disc jockey at a nightclub in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. But the owner of the nightclub, Queirós, is also involved in another less lawful but more profitable business: the diamond trade. Queirós is a cold and sophisticated man whose only weakness is an obsessive passion for a woman who has already betrayed him.
- TV film inspired by the biography of the Portuguese painter - Maluda - who found in Lisbon the stage of her art.
- Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
- 1st February 1908, the King Carlos I of Portugal was shot upon his return to Lisboa, but what lies underneath this violent fact?
- A historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria de Noronha.
- An essay on love, friendship, sex, identity and art, led by the gaze of a group of young people who struggle with reaching adulthood.
- Bocage is a former navy officer, a cultured gentleman, a passionate man, and a poet. He lived in the second half of the 18th century, and he goes through a number of relationships, writing love poems to his Three Graces: his colleague Márcia - a wild girl - and her two sisters, Anália, who loves God more than men, and Canária, a sensual Brazilean 'canary' who lives to love...
- Diana is a teenager who is looking for true love, the kind of love she recognizes on her father's, Gabriel, relationship with her stepmother, Madalena. However, Diana finds out that Madalena has a lover, Miguel, and that she is leaving her father for him. Gabriel falls into a dreadful depression and seeing him like that, Diana decides to try to separate Madalena from Miguel. Yet, during her efforts, Diana finds what she really wanted but in the man she hates the most..
- In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and plan to flee outside the country. With the help of Theology students, French and North-American pastors, the operation code name "Angola" fled over 100 african students abroad towards freedom, amongst them several future leaders of african countries.
- Recent population growth in the capital leads to an ambitious development plan, involving public and private initiative as documented here, pinpointing over 60 locations (streets, roads, parks, schools) being modernized or built anew. The narrative and soundtrack are grandiloquent, in the propaganda style required by the Producer (the Municipal Council of Lisbon, then directly dependent of the national government), but the images and data are now of historical relevance.