Ivo Canelas

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 story of political corruption involving a small town mayor and a prostitute, both investigated by a temperamental cop.

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

"The Lovebirds" intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. (imdb)

Mozambique, 1969. What was meant to be a peaceful Christmas Eve ends up badly as a group of soldiers brings home a prisoner that will be murdered.

Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess. (imdb)

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects".

Two young people who fall in love. She is white and he is black. The two major ingridients for a forbidden love story...

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 fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...

It is the summer of 1870 and two writers have created and published a mystery serial that turns out to be closer to reality than they thought possible.

The story of Mariana, a soap opera actress, and a paparazzo named John who are involved in a romantic comedy.

A compilation of ten short films, based on a Portuguese legend. Ten women found in a cave ten Roman coins. Together, the ten pieces uncovered a secret so important that women have decided to separate them and save them in their families.

The bride to be is about to choose her wedding dress... a mother torn between future stability and a past she is unable to let go. What happens when the phone rings? Will, elegance and grace burned by consuming passion. Red lipstick; a forbidden encounter; sex; photographs and a dark room... The divorce papers signed. Silence, sorrow and regret... love is not easily discarded... Will the bride ever become the wife? (imdb)

Five characters meet in a esplanade, beggining a journey trought their lifes. "Assim Assim" ("So So") its a movie about relationships, about what we want for our lifes, and what we can't achieve. Tells the story of different couples, connected somehow with each other facing different problems. Between good and bad relationships, love and obstacles, anything can happen. (imdb)

A musician down on his luck falls in love with a woman wearing a pink dinossaur mascot suit.

Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from violence and filled with light and hope for the better days yet to come.

A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's. (imdb)

After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk. (imdb)

The misadventures of the two Fintas brothers Joca and Quim who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires. (imdb)

Follows the winding karmic adventures of fallen corporate exec, Steve Unger, who was caught cooking the books and now finds himself legally forbidden from working in any position that involves "other people's money". Clinging desperately to the last vestige of his former self - his luxury sedan - Steve hopes to begin anew. (imdb)