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- A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.
- Four friends whose lives changed forever with the arrival of a ton of cocaine.
- Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies.
- Maria (Soraia Chaves) a sensual call girl, is hired by Mouros (Joaquim de Almeida) to seduce Meireles (Nicolau Breyner), the Mayor of Vilanova, so that he can authorize a multinational to build a high quality resort. However, Madeira (Ivo Canelas) and Neves (Jose Raposo), PJ police detectives, discover the evidence of corruption and begin to investigate Meireles. Everything becomes even more complex when Madeira finds out that Maria, the passion of his life, is the bait that will force the politician to give way.
- A young girl falls for a priest, will the love be stronger than religion?
- We are in 1320, in the newly formed country we call Portugal. Isabel, the Holy Queen, is the wife of Dinis, the king, and mother of Afonso, the heir, both involved in a civil war that affects everyone.
- It's the summer of '75 in Sines, Portugal. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.
- The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist party). In direct speech, sometimes to the camera, sometimes among themselves, the uneducated rural workers expose their misery, their suffering, their hopes, and ultimately their despair - when a socialist government orders the restitution of the land to their primitive owners, and these transform the land into a hunting reserve.
- A Portuguese immigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in a cemetery in Amsterdam. Soon he discovers that his soul won't rest in peace until his body is laying down in his fatherland. This way he decides to go to Portugal to convince his sister to travel to Amsterdam and bring back his body. The only problem is that the only way for him to be seen or heard by the living is appearing in their dreams.
- In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
- Quasimodo the hunchback is mistaken as the serial killer of El Paris. Can he clear his name?
- A beautiful and intense visual story about hunger, misery and exploitation in southern Portugal in the 1950's and about the growing rage and strength building up upon people. The Alentejo planes and the night smuggling scenes are beautifully shot on black and white.
- António Gama hates Afonso Guerra, a rich and avaricious man, father of the twins André and Tiago because of the woman they both loved in common, Migusta. Maria Gama falls in love with the good twin André, but the bad one also likes her, forming a love triangle. The evil twin has a girlfriend, Monica.
- Mitó lives in a small village and is the daughter of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja, the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopeless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes.
- A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.
- Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but on that night, he will end up dead in his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice 10 years ago. The viewer then follows two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death; and on the other, Nicholas himself living a different life. A second life.
- horror sci-fi mystery techno pop art tv show
- The atomic accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986, in addition to the human losses, transformed the lives of thousands of people, also in neighboring countries such as Germany. Many were those who left their lands fearing the winds and radioactive rains and went in search of new air. The Alentejo, in Portugal, was one of the favorite destinations for a group of these people, most of them lovers of the hippie philosophy.
- Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
- Unexpected events occur in a single day: a boy makes his parents rich when he finds the hidden and forbidden treasure of the Earth; two priests close their church for lack of parishioners and put the saints in auction; a banker has auditory hallucinations and a minister has visual hallucinations; an elegant woman organizes a party of red dresses; a general traffics weapons and his wife, works of art, while others revolt to fix the injustices of the world.
- A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
- The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the Portuguese society.
- A driver and his master drive around Portugal, having philosophical conversations throughout the journey. An adaptation of Denis Diderot's "The Fatalist and His Master".
- A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.
- Madalena is 30 years old and is abandoned by the love of her life a mysterious Spaniard named Ricardo. With the support of her best friends she tries to forget him, and find true love.
- Due to severe immunodeficiency, 20-year-old Alice is unable to leave the house. Her life is limited to the four walls of the room and a handful of people with whom she's allowed to associate. Her friend Fred is her main pillar and the way she "experiences" things in the real world. One day, through the Internet, Alice meets a boy her age with whom she falls in love. He challenges her to meet on the beach in Porto Covo. Despite wanting him with all her strength, Alice fears everything that is outside her known limits. Despite this, in a moment of madness, she plucks up courage and journeys there. Fred, as always, will be by her side for anything.
- O FASCÍNIO is an intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
- Come to the Village of the Dogs, it's easy to find. Just follow the avenue of crutches and the prosthetic legs hanging from the trees. It's where the Virgin Mary keeps appearing in the sky, and the local Marquis' (Sir John Hurt's) hobby is burying people alive, sometimes rescued by Ellic (David Warner). Sometimes not.
- Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
- a documentary about the life and work of Vitorino Salomé
- Januario and his two daughters, Mel and Clara, live in Alentejo and work for Armando, as farmers. Mel and Armando's son, Bernardo, are secret lovers because their parents don't approve the relationship. Tired of hiding, Mel and Bernardo decide to run away. However, Clara discovers their plan and denounces them. Angry, Armando banishes the two sisters from his propriety and takes Bernardo with him and Januario for a business trip to Amsterdam. On the plane, among with them, goes Camila, a model that works for Helena, who later falls in love with the taxi driver and Camila's brother, Quim. Helena is a fashion designer who was kicked out of home by her father, Caetano, in the past. Januario, before going to Amsterdam, writes a letter to Caetano, saying that one of his daughters is actually Caetano's. During the trip to Amsterdam, the plane has some complications and crashes. The press reports that everyone died, except Camila, who is disfigured. However, Bernardo survived too and Camila knows it, but he decided to hide from everyone. When he returns, everything will be different.
- This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) 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.
- Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy.
- The story starts with the trial and conviction of doctor Francisco António Barbosa Botelho, who is sentenced to 8 years in prison for a drunk-driving homicide. His daughter, Marta Botelho, swears never to see him again. Eight years later, as António is finishing his sentence, he aims to reconnect with his daughter and meet the widow of the patient he killed, all while navigating complex family and business dynamics.
- Documentary about the life and art of legendary singer Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999).
- To help a friend, Daniel Bricks, a young British engineer living in Portugal, goes to the country to inspect a water dam. On his way he meets Carolina, a sexy girl who could well be the woman of his dreams. Except that her behavior soon proves erratic and unpredictable. Except that she is just out of jail, which she is very careful not to tell him. In these conditions, it does not take long before sweet Carolina turns the young Englishman's life into a nightmare...
- Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal's Alentejo region, young contemporary Portuguese poet António Reis, Corsican researcher of Portuguese folk music Michel Giacometti, and film director Paulo Rocha visit the village one after another in the late 1950s. This work refreshes the soul, and flows with songs and poetry seeped in sadness, and the atmosphere of the quiet sea and village, fields adorned with vibrant red flowers and the roads traveled by Reis and the others, while interspersing images from Paulo Rocha's films.
- The world's biggest rate of suicide is located in Odemira, Portugal, with a rate of 61 suicides per every 100,000 persons. In the last 14 years, 239 people decided to quit their lives. Hanging is the most common method.
- Beyond that door hides your worst nightmare.
- A documentary on the flora, fauna, natural resources, typical architecture, monuments, agriculture and industry of all provinces of Portugal - including overseas colonies, then - arranged not by region, but socio-economic themes, in a diversified tapestry.
- On his way back from his father's funeral, a young man is stranded in the middle of nowhere when his car runs out of gas. Determined to spread his father's ashes at sunset, he embarks on a journey that forces him to confront his loss.