Adelaide João

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.

Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination.

A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In fulfilling his last dying wish, the group goes on a journey of self discovery about the true essence of friendship and life. However they haven't been together in 10 years...

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Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One of her neighbors, an old lady keeps on asking her: “Maybe you could get pregnant?” “Maybe…” she answers. After going through medical exams, Ana makes her choice.

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters financial difficulties and finds herself involved with shady characters, a situation that leads to a mysterious murder. The net closes around her.

Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the killing of two men (a soldier and a native) by his sounding of the alarm during one given night.

Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it is a touching descent into the emotional misery of the petty bourgeoisie living in rented rooms, suffocating on precarious civil service salaries, with a cultural horizon of soccer and television, and against the backdrop of the colonial war and the glory of the bridge over the Tagus. Noteworthy are the fine performances of the actors (especially Maria do Céu Guerra), the creation of an oppressive and mediocre atmosphere, well underscored by songs from the period, and the concise and rigorous characterization.

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but José begins to have doubts about the "honesty" of such intense feelings of love, feelings which are too intense (or hot) to him . If Maria Eugénia is like this with him, will she be the same with other men?In the meantime, the Revolution takes its course. José, who previously had been persecuted because of his opposition against the old regime, now feels "left behind" and frustrated.

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest, most horrible monster ever.

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives in Lisbon and writes inviting him to go to Portugal.

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.

Abílio is a travelling salesman with as much ability to sell as he is inconvenient. He makes a stop Mrs. Etelvina's pension for business and something more.

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.

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