Movies

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a personal tragedy forces her to embark on a journey...

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is...

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from...

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...

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at...

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric...

Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day....

At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All...

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de...

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing...

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China,...

The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, the richest man in town, to raise her. But...

After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.