Raquel Maria

Un bebé es secuestrado en un aeropuerto brasileño. Años más tarde, la madre vive en Lisboa y trabaja en un bar de strip-tease para poder sobrevivir. Cuando la despiden, se une a una banda de ladrones de bancos...

'Mal' reúne varias historias: la de Pedro y Cathy, separados por todo pero unidos por un inmenso amor; la de la constante angustia del joven delincuente Daniel y su búsqueda de un lugar bajo las estrellas; la historia de un abuelo que llega a Lisboa a buscar a su nieta; y la de los Cruz, que viven juntos por necesidad. Según Alberto Seixas Santos, "'es un mosaico narrativo en el que temas cotidianos de vidas separadas se encuentran".

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...

En los años cuarenta, en un lugar, un poco perdido, en medio de las montañas de Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo intenta sobrevivir mediante la compra y venta de pieles de marta y zorro, soñando con el día en que consiga hacer un gran negocio.

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.

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren’t included on the show.

Adaptation of a Portuguese traditional tale. A travelling man rests at a inn. While sleeping, three beautiful women tell him where to go, the black islands, where he can find them and marry the one that is a princess.