João Botelho

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world. (imdb)

Three episodes that play out as a fairy tale about a young boy fantastic adventures.

Alexandra Lencastre stars as the title character who thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House. On her birthday, she throws a huge party in honor of her re-election and plans to control the entire world.

The tragedy of a woman who - after seven years of vain searches - gave up hope of finding her husband, a knight lost in battle in Marroc with Sebastião, king of Portugal. (imdb)

A woman seeks to unearth the truth about an ancestor.

Tiago and his master carry on a debate about free will. Tiago denies its existence, even as he engages in ever more unpredictable and provocative behavior. Rogue and master careen across the countryside, from car wreck to bordello to their next adventure.

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.

Cinematic adaptation of the Livro do Desassossego (The Book of Disquiet) by the poet Fernando Pessoa.

The tragedy and comedy in Carlo's life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, Joao da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest. (imdb)

A Portuguese family is in mourning over the loss of one of their sons, a young man who was killed in Mozambique. During the mid-1970s, Mozambique rebelled against 450 years of Portuguese colonial domination and after much bloodshed, independence was declared in June, 1975. Now 10 years have gone by and the mother still cannot forget her dead son, though the topic of the war has long been dropped from conversations.

Miguel is a successful economist until his father's death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from his wife and initiates a process of physical disintegration. (imdb)

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

A Portuguese adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

Born in Montemor-o-Velho, around 1510, the portuguese Fernão Mendes Pinto became known for his biographic work "Peregrinação" (Pilgrimage), where he recounts one of the Portuguese voyages through the East. (Público.pt)

The youth years of portuguese communist leader and hero Álvaro Cunhal.

Literary adaptation which imagines the last months, in 1936, of Fernando Pessoa using the name Ricardo Reis: Against the European politics of that year he has romantic encounters at a hotel in a constantly rainy Lisbon.