José Viana

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the great regulative Governor Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.

Maria, una muchacha de 16 años, es obligada a clausurarse en el convento de Serra D'Aires, secretamente llevado por los Satanistas. Pronto entra en conflicto con la Madre Superior del convento, y es torturada y forzada sexualmente, aunque posteriormente le dicen que todo ha sido un mal sueño. Ella escribe una carta a Dios, y un apuesto caballero la rescata, pero no todo saldrá según lo esperado.

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal.

15th century. D. Afonso, an old jealous nobleman, demands that all stay away when his wife, D. Leonor, goes to church to pray to Our Lady of Mercês. Another nobleman, D. Rui, sees her and fells under the spell or he beauty. D. Afonso orders his wife to retreat to Quinta do Cabril, and decides, one night, to stab his rival to death. It is then that a hanged man decides to intervene. - MOTELx