Paulo Pires

Pedro, Kiko y David, tres amigos en sus treinta y tantos largos, viajan a Río de Janeiro para recoger el cuerpo sin vida de Mateo, su mejor amigo del instituto, quien ha muerto en extrañas circunstancias. Pero al llegar a Brasil nada es lo que parece. Mateo, "el muerto", ha huido, su casa está patas arriba y una de sus ex-novias lo busca desesperadamente...

Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale.

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.

Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help.

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be

In 2008, a corpse identified by the police with the birth certificate of the writer João Paulo Cuenca was found in an occupied building in Lapa. Inspired by this fact, the movie investigates the theft of the author´s identity in a ghostly Rio de Janeiro and in deep transformation. If in fiction and in crime sections of newspapers it’s common to read about people who steal the identity of someone dead to start a new life, what we have here is the opposite case: someone who steals the identity of a living man to die in his place.

It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.

Liane viaja a Lisboa para encontrarse con su marido, Ben, en lo que prometen ser unas vacaciones que compensen los 20 años que han dedicado al trabajo y a sus hijos. Pero es Joao quien la recoge en el aeropuerto, ya que Ben está en Marruecos. En apenas dos días, la pasión surge entre ellos.

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost his parents when he was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewelry and tobacco.

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?

Narra la historia de la ocupación de Portugal por las tropas napoleónicas a principios del siglo XIX. Realizado por Valeria Sarmiento, la viuda y editora de los filmes de Raúl Ruiz, partiendo de un proyecto póstumo de su marido.

Valia es una joven creadora de espacios visuales acostumbrada a observar a los otros como parte de su trabajo. Para ella, la realidad se ha convertido en un lienzo en donde los personajes actúan una vida. Valia graba el mismo encuadre con su videocámara: la calle frente a su apartamento donde hay un restaurante italiano. Al poco tiempo conoce a Guido, el propietario del negocio. Él es su antítesis, perfectamente adaptado a la vida cotidiana y consciente de su propia dimensión social. Valia, sin embargo, vive en este mundo bidimensional separada de lo que está sucediendo en realidad y lo que ella observa.

Biopic basado en la vida de Carmen Cervera.

Homage to Fernando Pessoa and the city that lies next to the Tagus River.

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, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow 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.

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

El comisario Lourenço tras interrogar a Ana, acusada de robo, queda totalmente impactado por su fuerza, independencia y libertad. Anna es una conocida stripper que en ocasiones muestra gratis su cuerpo sin pudor y Lourenço quedará atrapado por el deseo pasional y por la atracción fatal que Anna le provoca.

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...

Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be happy with their lives. One day though, everything changes. Maria is forced to take care of her father, victim of a brain accident. During these days of turbulence, Maria thinks she has found the perfect man, a mysterious Star, an habitué of chat channels on the Internet. The three friends find out that cense of humour can be the key for a happy life. Internet, romance, a bachelor party; marriage, dates and some adventures are Loving Maria. A film where love shows himself with the most different looks. Love arrives when you don't expect it and goes away when you think it is safe. It can even appear in the light of a mobile computer.

A place where putting red lipstick gives life and a broadcast camera takes it, reclaiming lost girls in endoscopic romances into darkness, where they evaporate, inside empty haute couture dresses.

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.

After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver.

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.