Teresa Madruga

Two lonely people careen through life following their individual experiences of loss: Rui, a handsome young romantic, loses his lover Pedro on the day of their anniversary; Odete, as fetching as she is unstable, is abruptly dumped by her boyfriend when she broaches the subject of starting a family. Their worlds collide when Odete becomes obsessed with Pedro, a man she never knew.

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)

Don Rodrigo has two daughters, one legitimate, the other bastard, Silvia and Susana. He decides to marry off Silvia to his neighbour, a rich nobleman, with the aim of securing and expanding his domain...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship "a floating factory of crazy people." He rents a room and does little. He writes letters to his lover, describing the whiteness of the city, the solitude and the silence. He sends his love and emptiness; she replies with love and confusion. (imdb)

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

After an "apocalyptic vision" in a peep-show, Zeze decides to join the Order of Discalced Caracolários. Toni sees his friend, who has now cloistered in a monastery and the reunion of this old friends will get them back in time and remember their adventures...

On the way to school was born a friendship between Mouro and João, two teenagers from the suburbs of Lisbon.

Insolent motorcycle daredevil Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida. Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of that, they meet.

The story of a woman that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in wich she'll have the opportunity to feel free.

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.

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover the man has been murdered. The woman, Ana, takes off, but Alvaro runs into her on a train. After Alvaro and Ana start a relationship of sorts, he tries to handle some personal difficulties. But as Ana comes in and out of his agenda, Alvaro had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.

During one night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

Dalila is a middle-age, married woman who is still attractive, too attractive, for her rural husband - who is proud to show her off, but awfully jealous of her. Her trips to the capital to see a doctor (she thinks she has breast cancer) put her in contact with flashy clothes, and shoes, and then she goes wild. She will lead a young truck driver into lust, and worse sins, as Dalila progresses from white shoes to red shoes, and then, fatal black shoes.

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.

Aurora, an elderly Portugese woman and her Cap Verdean housekeeper live next door to Pilar, who has made it her aim in life to do good. Not that she receives any gratitude for her efforts - and certainly not from the notoriously mistrustful Aurora, who prefers to spend her remaining years losing her meagre savings at Estoril casino. When the old lady dies, Pilar discovers among her belongings a letter addressed to an old lover. (mubi.com)

Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African. (imdb)

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic. (imdb)

Memories of Manoel de Oliveira, made in 1981, to be shown after his death.

Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the couple's past begins to rear its head. Emma is overwhelmed by a secret that is simply too big for her to keep, and which she has no right to share with her twin sister. (imdb)

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.