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- DirectorPedro VarelaStarsCésar MourãoLuana MartauMiguel GuilhermeHow happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsMiguel GuilhermeSara MatosAna VarelaThe story revolves around Anastácio, an supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, an supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsMiguel GuilhermeSara MatosCésar MourãoA New age remake of a Portuguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsVictoria GuerraJosé MataSoraia ChavesCristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsLeonor SeixasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraAna Rita ClaraMadalena is 30 years old and is abandoned by the love of her life a mysterious Spaniard named Ricardo. With the support of her best friends she tries to forget him, and find true love.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsMaria do Céu GuerraJoão JesusFernanda SerranoAn 18 year old boy with a complicated life starts a criminal career but ends up on a rooftop of Lisbon. On the apartment below lives a recently widowed, lonely old lady. Against all odds and her family's will, they become each others best company.
- DirectorRuben AlvesStarsRita BlancoJoaquim de AlmeidaRoland GiraudFor thirty years now Maria and José Ribeiro have been living on the ground floor of a Haussmannian building in one of the most exclusive districts of Paris. Everybody loves this nice couple of Portuguese immigrants, Mario for being a topnotch caretaker, José, a construction site supervisor by trade, for helping to do all kinds of jobs in the house. So, the day Maria and José announce their wish to return to Portugal, everybody is crushed. No, they just can't let them do a thing like that...!
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSoraia ChavesMarco D'AlmeidaNuno MarklTelenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsAlexAngi AlmeidaVanessa AlmeidaLourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.
- DirectorCarlos Coelho da SilvaStarsSandra Barata BeloCarla ChambelRicardo CarriçoThe story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsIvo CanelasEnrique ArceFlora MartínezTwo amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSoraia ChavesIvo CanelasNicolau BreynerMaria (Soraia Chaves) a sensual call girl, is hired by Mouros (Joaquim de Almeida) to seduce Meireles (Nicolau Breyner), the Mayor of Vilanova, so that he can authorize a multinational to build a high quality resort. However, Madeira (Ivo Canelas) and Neves (Jose Raposo), PJ police detectives, discover the evidence of corruption and begin to investigate Meireles. Everything becomes even more complex when Madeira finds out that Maria, the passion of his life, is the bait that will force the politician to give way.
- DirectorFernando LopesStarsRogério SamoraCarla ChambelMárcia BreiaTwo outlaws that do not know each other, decide to travel together.
- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsNuno LopesBeatriz BatardaMiguel GuilhermeIn the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaVanessa MachadoFilipe DuarteA 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 fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
- DirectorCarlos Coelho da SilvaStarsJorge CorrulaSoraia ChavesNicolau BreynerAn young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsDiogo InfanteCristina CâmaraHenrique VianaJacinto Pereira Lopes is manager of a major economic and financial group, which the State returned to its former owner. Jacinto is married to Rosa, a poor but ambitious woman, but never forgot Fatima, a beautiful and brilliant daughter of the family. To save your company, Fatima needs information on the activities of the head of Jacinto and no doubt rekindle the old flame. Jacinto tries to resist pressures in an atmosphere of family chaos, in which his wife encouraged him to be ambitious and cheating on him with other men. Feeling betrayed and used by everyone Jacinto decides to take matters into their own hands, starting to play with the same rules as others.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaEmmanuelle SeignerNicolau BreynerEvery year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
- 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.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSaúl FonsecaFernanda SerranoJoaquim LeitãoA woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsFélix FontouraNuria MadrugaMilton SpencerTó is a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, and falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams to live in Angola, where his parents were born, however the reality the two teens are in makes everything complicated.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsDiogo InfanteCatarina FurtadoGeorge FelnerTo help a friend, Daniel Bricks, a young British engineer living in Portugal, goes to the country to inspect a water dam. On his way he meets Carolina, a sexy girl who could well be the woman of his dreams. Except that her behavior soon proves erratic and unpredictable. Except that she is just out of jail, which she is very careful not to tell him. In these conditions, it does not take long before sweet Carolina turns the young Englishman's life into a nightmare...
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaCristina CâmaraDiogo InfanteFather Antonio is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father Anthony is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the "black sheep" of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.
- DirectorJosé Álvaro MoraisStarsFernando HeitorPaula GuedesLuís LucasSet four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsAna ZanattiPedro OliveiraTeresa MadrugaAlvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn't know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious sensual woman, he decides not to tell the police about the lift he gave her and investigates her by himself. He gets involved with her, but she remains too mysterious about her personal life. He ends up tangled in a web of murder, mystery and sex because of that woman, who he barely gets to know.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMilúMaria EugéniaAnastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsNascimento FernandesVital dos SantosAntónio PalmaThe story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.
- DirectorFrancisco RibeiroStarsMaria das NevesVasco SantanaAntónio SilvaThis classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsVasco SantanaFrancisco RibeiroLeonor MaiaFrancisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
- DirectorJosé Cottinelli TelmoStarsVasco SantanaBeatriz CostaAntónio SilvaAfter flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
- DirectorEdgar PêraStarsDiogo MorgadoJorge CorrulaDiana MonteiroJoão, a homosexual individual develops amnesia and forgets that he's homosexual.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsVítor NorteDiogo InfanteJosé EduardoTwo simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsIvo CanelasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraBruna Di TullioA critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
- DirectorSérgio GracianoStarsDânia NetoAfonso PimentelDalila CarmoWhen a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.