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- DirectorFernando Matos SilvaStarsJoão MotaMaria do Céu GuerraZita DuarteThe 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.
- DirectorManuel Costa e SilvaAntónio da Cunha TellesAcácio de AlmeidaStarsFernando BalsinhaÁlvaro CunhalAdelino GomesFilm directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.
- DirectorRui SimõesStarsRui Paulo da CruzJosé Mário BrancoÁlvaro CunhalThe history of Portugal since the Republican revolution of 1910 to the revolutionary period following the military coup of April 24, 1974, recounted with a marxist perspective, using historic sound and film documents. The title refers to a trilogy of values proclaimed by Salazar, prime minister of Portugal in 1936.
- DirectorRui SimõesStarsJosé Mário BrancoAna de Lurdes DavidAugusto de FigueiredoUsing film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- StarsAlexandre de SousaAntónio CapeloFrancisco PestanaAn hourly reconstitution of the events that led to the 25th of Abril 1974 coup d'etat in Portugal.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsVasco GonçalvesPezarat CorreiaVasco LourençoA dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a social-democracy, read a book to a young girl, describing in a poetic, yet realistic way, what happened in the streets, and minds, of her People in April 25, 1974.
- DirectorSérgio Tréfaut
- DirectorMaria de MedeirosStarsStefano AccorsiMaria de MedeirosJoaquim de AlmeidaStory of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsCarlos PauloPedro CunhaLeonor Seixas
- DirectorBruno de AlmeidaStarsJohn VentimigliaDiogo DóriaNuno LopesA film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
- DirectorLionel BaierStarsValérie DonzelliMichel VuillermozPatrick LappApril 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...
- DirectorCarlos SabogaStarsJoana RibeiroPaulo PiresJudith DavisTwo French refugees are arrested during the Portuguese fascist regime, a police inspector decides to hide them at his home, while his wife consumed by jealousy, tries to make them disappear at all costs.
- DirectorIvo FerreiraStarsMiguel NunesMargarida Vila-NovaRicardo PereiraBased on António Lobo Antunes's novel, a collection of letters written by a young soldier, doctor and a aspirant writer, to his wife while he was serving in Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Portuguese Colonial War, a war between Portugal with its former overseas provinces.
- DirectorLeandro FerreiraAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJoão de BritoDaniel VianaPedro PernasThe first operation of the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement, whose contribution was decisive for the success of the military coup that overthrew the dictatorship on April 25, 1974.
- DirectorSérgio GracianoStarsTomás AlvesFrederico BarataFilipa AreosaThe story of a true Portuguese hero. For himself he asked nothing, for the country all.
- DirectorLuísa MarinhoLuísa SequeiraStarsAna Luísa AmaralMaría Isabel BarrenoMaria Velho da CostaIn 1972, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, published the book "New Portuguese Letters". "What Words Can Do" is an intimate portrait of the extraordinary Three Marias.
- DirectorBruno GasconStarsTomás AlvesRafael MoraisMichalina OlszanskaWhat if, at the end of World War II, an economic crisis had spread to every nation, including those that had not directly taken part in hostilities?