Carlos Santos

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

Una joven estudiante de cine conoce a un antiguo estudiante de la escuela que no puede quitarse de la cabeza un nombre: Catarina Vega. Ambos vivirán una historia enlazada con el pasado, y el futuro. (FILMAFFINITY)

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

El protagonista de la cinta es Ian, un profesor de orientación especial que llega a una prestigiosa clínica oftalmológica de Lisboa para dirigir una terapia. Uno de sus pacientes afectados por la ceguera es Eva, una joven que trata de esconder su minusvalía. Ian pone en práctica métodos que suscitan polémicas dentro del equipo de la clínica pero consigue ganarse la confianza de los pacientes.

Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador.

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.

Pedro, un joven ingeniero de caminos de 27 años que está destinado en una pequeña aldea del norte de Portugal, espera ansioso su traslado de vuelta a Lisboa. Justo cuando está a punto de regresar, recibe una carta de una multinacional en la que le ordenan que cierre la página web que ha creado, aduciendo una infracción en el nombre del dominio. Si no lo hace inmediatamente, la compañía amenaza con ponerle una demanda por 500.000 euros. Sólo hay un problema: la página está a nombre de la asociación del pueblo y sólo sus miembros pueden cerrar el sitio. Pero ahora los habitantes del pueblo se niegan, siguiendo un razonamiento aplastante: si les pueden poner una demanda por 500.000 euros significa que la web vale 500.000 euros. Si la multinacional quiere cerrarla, primero tendrá que comprarla. La situación rápidamente queda fuera de control; el peculiar litigio da la vuelta al mundo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Han pasado 193 días desde que Alice fue visto por última vez. Cada día, su padre, Mario, se va de casa y sigue exactamente la misma ruta el día Alice desapareció. En su búsqueda, Mário crea una red de vigilancia de vídeo en los lugares que ella podría caminar, el aeropuerto, todo lo que puede proporcionar una pista. Todos los días, él mira incontables horas de cintas de vigilancia en el avance rápido, esperando obtener una visión de su hijo. Casi todos los días, la esperanza de que nazca. Casi todos los días, la esperanza se apaga - hasta que un día, la búsqueda parece haber terminado.

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?

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.

Un joven portugués es obligado a emigrar a Brasil a principios del siglo XX por su convicciones monárquicas. En la selva amazónica tendrá que trabajar en los cauchales del interior y enfrentarse a las extremas condiciones del entorno.

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.

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

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.

En la frontera hispano-portuguesa, un grupo de ex comandos especiales del ejército portugues se ve envuelto en un incidente con una banda de narcotraficantes. Los antiguos soldados, ahora cuarentones y barrigudos, tendran que olvidar sus rencillas para unirse de nuevo y recordar los viejos tiempos con el objetivo de salvar las vidas de dos de ellos, que son retenidos como rehenes por los narcos en un oscuro prostibulo de carretera.

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.

The life of the Angolan community at Lisbon in the 90s

El 13 de Mayo de 1917, una bella aparición de Nuestra Señora altera para siempre la vida de tres criaturas: Lucinda, Jacita y Francisco que vivian en Villa de Fatima, Portugal.

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.

"The Butterfly in the Cage" is a novel by Luís Filipe Costa adapted to film by the author, it follows the daily lives of several people connected to newspapers, television, film and theater in Lisbon, in the days leading up to the revolution of 25 April 1974.

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.