Ruy Furtado

11th century. Descended from the aristocracy, Alexis flees a world dominated by money and strength. The young man, in love with justice and freedom, sets off on the roads to discover the world, abandoning his wife and family.

En una "Casa de Enajenados", se entrecruzan personajes perseguidos por ideas obsesivas como personas alucinadas. Cada cual a su manera tomándose unos por figuras bíblicas, tales como: los Fariseos, Adán, Eva, Jesús, Lázaro, Marta y María, otros como personajes de romance, como Raskolnikov y Sónia de “Crimen y Castigo”, o Ivan y Aliocha de los “Hermanos Karamazov”; otro que encarna al Filósofo del “Anti-Cristo”, y otro que se cree personificar al Profeta de la “Salvación del Mundo”.

Lisboa, 1989: Un pobre diablo de mediana edad vive en el cuarto de una pensión barata y familiar, en el casco antiguo de la ciudad. Atormentado por una enfermedad y por vicisitudes de orden diverso, el idiota, que se alimenta de Schubert y quizás de una vaga cinefilia como forma de resistencia frente a la miseria, es puesto de patitas en la calle tras un intento frustrado de atentar contra la virtud de la hija de la dueña de la pensión. Solo y privado de recursos, se ve confrontado con la dureza del espacio urbano y es internado en un hospicio, de donde saldrá con la firme determinación propia del hombre libre, y con una misión “rica y extraña” que le ha sido encomendada por un viejo amigo, enfermo mental como él: “!Ve y dales trabajo!”.

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace.

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.

Una familia arisócrática siciliana en los años 50 del siglo XX. El conde Villafratti practica el sexo una noche con su hermana nimfómana porque cree que es su esposa.

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

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

After failing in his attempt to escape, a teenager is taken back to his family.

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

Retrato social típica de un país aislado y pobre, víctima de una ideología totalitaria. "Un universo parada y opresiva rural, roto por ausencias, desacuerdos o silencios, centrado en una pareja - Maria dos Prazeres, Álvaro Silvestre. Estado civil compromiso de relaciones, que se hizo añicos por el conflicto latente de pasiones, debilidades y deseos reprimidos ". Cit:. José de Matos-Cruz en Cais do mira, ed. Portuguesa Cinemateca, 1,999.

Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.

João and Jaime work as taxi drivers for the same company. But, once the company's vault is robbed by Raul, the manager's son, João is the one to blame.

After two years of fighting in Angola, Ilídio returns to the village where Mary, whom he considered his bride, is indifferent. She is convinced that she has a religious calling.

Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares.

Un zapatero de Lisboa enseña el oficio a su sobrino de 18 años, mientras éste se enamora de una joven a la que propone matrimonio. Críticas "Es un fantástico redescubrimiento en el sentido más puro (...) un regalo para cinéfilos" Kevin Jagernauth: The Playlist

João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.