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- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsGraciano DiasMaria FlorJoão PerryThe 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, João 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.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSoraia ChavesMarco D'AlmeidaNuno MarklTelenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaMichelle ManiaSkyler DaySeveral characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.
- DirectorMiguel GaudêncioAlexandre ValenteStarsPiotr AdamczykLúcia MonizPaulo PiresNicholas 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.
- DirectorRuben AlvesStarsRita BlancoJoaquim de AlmeidaRoland GiraudFor thirty years now Maria and José Ribeiro have been living on the ground floor of a Haussmannian building in one of the most exclusive districts of Paris. Everybody loves this nice couple of Portuguese immigrants, Mario for being a topnotch caretaker, José, a construction site supervisor by trade, for helping to do all kinds of jobs in the house. So, the day Maria and José announce their wish to return to Portugal, everybody is crushed. No, they just can't let them do a thing like that...!
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsSoraia ChavesIvo CanelasNicolau BreynerMaria (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.
- DirectorJoaquim LeitãoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaCristina CâmaraDiogo InfanteFather Antonio is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father Anthony is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the "black sheep" of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.
- DirectorCarlos Coelho da SilvaStarsJorge CorrulaSoraia ChavesNicolau BreynerAn young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman.
- 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.
- DirectorAntónio-Pedro VasconcelosStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaEmmanuelle SeignerNicolau BreynerEvery year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
- 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...
- DirectorNicolau BreynerStarsJoão Paulo RodriguesPedro AlvesAlda GomesThe annual festival of Curral de Moinas is ready. Quim and Zé are eager to meet their Lisbon cousins and have a party without limits. But God decides to interfere with their plans and give those two sinners a true moral lesson.
- DirectorJosé SacramentoStarsJosé Pedro GomesAntónio FeioMaria RueffFollowing an apocalyptic vision during a show in the booth of a "peep-show", Zézé decides to join the Order of the Caracolários Descalços.
- 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.
- DirectorCarlos da SilvaGeorge SluizerStarsDiogo InfanteMaria d'AiresHuub StapelA 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.
- DirectorFernando FragataStarsDiogo InfanteCatarina FurtadoGeorge FelnerTo 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...
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsPaulo PiresSinde FilipeVítor NorteIn the 1940s André escapes from prison and is forced to leave the country illegally. In Oporto some friends arrange him a man, Lambaça, who knows the border of Tras-os-Montes (village in the north of Portugal) with Spain, thanks to his smuggler activity.
- DirectorJoaquim SapinhoStarsCarla BolitoMarco DelgadoFrancisco NascimentoThe film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the '90s. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsAssumpta SernaRaul SolnadoPatrick BauchauIn Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
- DirectorCristina BoavidaRicardo Espírito SantoStarsAna PadrãoDiogo MorgadoMaria João AbreuTeresa and Miguel, of 35 and 15 years respectively, get involved. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. When she arrives, she is welcomed with some hostility by her countrymen, with the exception of an old friend and her two sons. Immediately, a strong attraction between her and the oldest son (Miguel) of her friend is born. Teresa tries to fight against her feelings but she finally yields and initiates a relationship with the adolescent. The scandal blasts when the population discovers what is going on between the two of them, and Teresa is the one who ends up suffering the consequences.
- DirectorLuis IsmaelStarsJorge NetoLuis IsmaelJ.D. DuarteA group of friends meet and combine a robbery from a gasoline station.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsVasco SantanaFrancisco RibeiroLeonor MaiaFrancisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
- DirectorFrancisco RibeiroStarsMaria das NevesVasco SantanaAntónio SilvaThis classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
- DirectorMaria de MedeirosStarsStefano AccorsiMaria de MedeirosJoaquim de AlmeidaStory of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.