Canto e Castro

When he receives a cryptic call from his filmmaker friend to come to Lisbon to help with a project, a sound engineer sets off for the Portuguese capital. Upon arrival, the confused sound man finds only an unfinished film and the splendors of the city.

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based on Vieira's own writings. (answers.com)

Using sparse dialogue and stunningly rich black-and-white images, Costa follows two young brothers and a teacher on the run from the boys' malevolent uncle and his gang of vicious criminals.

Jacinto Pereira Lopes works for an important financial group. In this disgusting world he tries to keep his moral but after his closests friends and his wife betray him, Jacinto decides to take the destiny in his hands. He will start playing with the same rules than his enemies.

Story 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. (imdb)

It is night and the road down by the river is deserted. Teenager Samuel gazes at the river Tejo intent on committing suicide. Elói, an old sailor, comes over to try and find out what the boy intends to do. Samuel invites him to come with him on his last dive into the river...

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Set in a near future where humans are dying breed, Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Two men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

A 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.

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

The pulse of life, feelings and types of relationships.

A day like any other. Lino Rodrigues Paes arrives at her office already knowing that nothing good awaits. But when you open a personal letter, he realizes that after all his life may have completely changed that day: a great-uncle, who for many years to get angry, just died leaving him an inheritance a huge estate.

Xavier spent his childhood in an orphanage, where he was left by his mother, until finally being adopted as a teenager. Just when his life seemed to be getting on the right track, a serious event will make Xavier suddenly stray from everyone who knows him.

A dramatic eight hour period on a winter's day in Lisbon.

Estefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery... (Artemis-9)

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories. (imdb)