Beatriz Batarda

This film is a hilarious insiders look at a club and rave culture most people don't get to experience. (Matson Films)

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover. (imdb)

193 days have passed since Alice was seen for the last time. Every day Mário, her father, leaves home to repeat exactly the same steps he took on the day Alice disappeared. Obsessed with tracking her down he installs several video cameras to record the movement on the streets... (Madragoa Filmes)

A provincial Portuguese family has to deal with the Russian Mafia after a deal went wrong.

At the end of the 60s, Evita arrives in Mozambique and finds herself in a country devastated by the colonial war...

Lisbon, a normal day in one of the typical narrow streets of the capital of Portugal. In a small house, in a dirty little street, in a dark corner of the city lives a poor blind beggar, which earns his living through the selling of useless trinkets such as buttons, erasers and other paraphernalia.... (imdb comments)

A love story between two siblings who are getting into adolescence and facing, not only the problems of this age, but also the problems of a family that is falling apart.

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the in the chapel where she is filming.

The story about the encounter between Simao and Teresa. But does Teresa exist or is she a mere reflection? A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

David is a scientist on his way to Denmark, with his wife and daughter, but first he has to go back to his native village for the funeral of his grandfather. There he meets the family he had practically lost contact with, is drawn back by memories and by the wild charm of the place, and falls under the spell of his cousin's wife, Ana.

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.

An amnesiac might be a key figure in Detective Mackenzie Stone's search for his own wife, who disappeared five years ago.

Two weeks before her wedding, Maria is spoiled, hung over, possibly pregnant, and unwilling to exchange her party girl ways for her impending marriage. So, with the objections of her father and the encouragement of her uncle, she leaves on a mission to return a large boat and trailer to her fiancé, who lives in Spain. With the help of Gabriel, she drives a large rig across the Iberian plains, visiting her estranged brother in Cordoba along the way and dallying in sexual hijinks to boot.

In Portugal, a father, a mother and a daughter's daily lives are being subsumed by the effects of the economic crisis. (imdb)

An unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife struggles to make ends meet working as a thug a for debt-collection agency.

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil. (imdb)

Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want to be happy. Pablo, the companion she selected from among the many who answered her questionnaire, helps her through the sleepless nights. He has no family, but wishes he had. Vera concerns herself with the mysteries surrounding Pablo's life. Vera is not afraid of the night; she is not afraid of anything. Vera has no ties.

In Lisbon, Marcelo writes a novel, using the life of his own wife, Beatriz, as the main inspiration to the story. The creative process of the book takes a dangerous path, ultimately compromising the love they feel for each other.

An 8-year old Portugees child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an alcoholic father and unloving mother. (imdb)

Last part of a trilogy about family meetings. How paths cross -or sometimes fail to- by an inch. After a day of swimming at the lake, family ties are inexplicably disturbed. Morning Light makes the generation gap tangible between mother, daughter and granddaughter.

A late night radio show goes astray.

Hundreds of migrants descend on the UK village of Great Yarmouth seeking work in the region's turkey processing plants. (imdb)

Five women are running an old hotel. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend and are drawn into a web of ongoing conflict. (imdb)