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- DirectorNicolau BreynerStarsPedro LimaCláudia VieiraVítor NortePeter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
- DirectorRodrigo AreiasStarsVítor CorreiaTânia DinisDjin SganzerlaI am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsLuís Miguel CintraJessica WeissPedro HestnesMiguel 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. He will reach the bottom before he starts seeing the light. As an echo to his journey, we follow, faraway in the countryside, the story of a crime and its redemption, the story of Antonio and Cecilia. From death to the miracle of life, here on earth.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsNicolau BreynerMargarida Vila-NovaAntónio Pedro CerdeiraA 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.
- DirectorJoão MarcoStarsPedro MonteiroTânia SilvaPedro RomeirasA robbed writer. His masterpiece... disappeared in the hands of a friend. A play that he had kept under lock and key. That same night, he decides to set the record straight: a small conversation, with nothing more than a few jolts. But it is not meant to be that way. Misfortune is there, lurking in the shadows of the alleys lights. His whole life, built by his firm, steady and sure hand, is thrown against the cold sidewalk on a dark night. Yet a man can survive. Even after everything. A writer can rewrite each sentence again. That's what he thought...
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsRita BlancoJosé WilkerLídia FrancoMaria is a sweet child. She hasn't father and doesn't like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsHelder MendesAdelaide de SousaMiguel C.Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero) is an action/comedy about 25 year old lovable loser Alex who, when his life hits rock bottom and decides to end it all, shares his dogs euthanasia poison just moments before a dramatic turn of events sends him hilariously and desperately seeking the antidote which he must find within 4 hours or die.
- DirectorArtur SemedoStarsArtur SemedoHenrique VianaCarlos CunhaPoncio Branco is an aggressive businessman, who does everything in his power and betrays everyone if he as to, to be more and more rich and powerful, His wife Bernanda felt betrayed, so she hires a detective in order to prove that his husband committed adultery.
- DirectorTiago DiasStarsCristina CarvalhoTiago DiasGiovanni CietWhy start a game when you don't know the rules?
- DirectorCanutoStarsCarlos CenteioDiamantina da Luz CanutoThomas HornigAn obsolete and tired assassin, stuck in an endless cycle where past and future merge, gets a new mission from his boss. To kill three targets.
- DirectorBruno SantanaStarsAndré MatiasJoana MartinsRute Bastos
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsIvo CanelasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraBruna Di TullioA critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaVanessa MachadoFilipe DuarteA 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...
- DirectorTiago P. de CarvalhoStarsCláudia NevesMarta FaialJani ZhaoA small-time wiseguy teams up with the most delinquent small-time criminals to payback the leader of the gang that betrayed him.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsHelder MendesAntónio FeioRui UnasAlberto is planning the ultimate romantic escape, but before he can catch the airplane he will endure the creepiest day of his life.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaNicolau BreynerAna BustorffTen men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsAna BustorffVítor NorteJoão ReisIn today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
- DirectorIco CostaStarsHenrique BonachoAfter committing a crime, Henrique, a man in his thirties, hides in the forest.
- DirectorAnn GuedesEduardo GuedesStarsTom WaitsDamon LowryJúlia BrittonOn the run from a couple of hit-men, young Johnny Fortune escapes from a life in basement poolrooms to become a dancing bear with the strangest Punch and Judy man in the business.
- DirectorJorge CardosoLourenço de MelloJosé Manuel FernandesStarsMaria João BastosPaulo PiresCarloto CottaThe police tries to stop a gang of criminals responsible for several robberies in Lisbon.
- DirectorLuis IsmaelStarsJorge NetoLuis IsmaelJ.D. DuarteA group of friends that meet after some years apart,decide to hunt a treasure.