Isabel Ruth

The story of an aging French actor who - after learning his family has been killed in an accident - still carries on with his career, enjoys his morning espresso and newspaper, appreciates the endless beauty that is Paris, and takes a stand against the philistinism that plagues his professional life. (Film Forum)

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)

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? (imdb)

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family. (imdb)

In fascist Portugal of the late 60s a rich landowner leads an idle life of hunting (animals and women), drinking and enjoying himself.

A movie in three parts; a one-act play, a short story, and a fable, bringing them all together brilliantly (combustiblecelluloid.com)

Probably too minimalist even for most specialized audiences, "Bones" describes the emotional wasteland of a Creole shantytown outside Lisbon with a chilling rigor that should cull favor and laurels at many festivals. (variety.com)

Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth. (imdb)

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)

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.

The lives of Pedro, Ricardo and Andreia, three kids in their early teens who have rejected life in juvenile homes or with foster families to take their chances on their own.

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.

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Set in the 1950s, a photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

Based on the true story of an Ukrainian doctor who travels to Portugal to meet her Senegalese husband and gets stuck in the bureaucratic processes of the Portuguese immigration services.

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.

19-year-old Julio moves from the countryside to Lisbon, trying to earn a living as a shoemaker. But this new urban environment feels very strange and distressing to him, and will lead him to unpredictable extremes.

Genre: the new portuguese cinema. A story of relationships and nonconformism. The struggle between a man and the sea, between tradition and progress. A fishing village. The sea gradually conquering the land. A fisherman returns from the war in Africa. He is challenged to change his life.

An elderly woman in a wheelchair and a hormone driven teenage boy arrive to a beach cabin where, through rare moments of lucidity, she will persuade him to kill her. (imdb)

Alentejo, 1950. Adaptation of «Seara de Vento», a Portuguese XX century classic by Manuel da Fonseca.

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a medicine doctor, researcher on blood deseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill young woman.