Teresa Madruga

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

En su lecho de muerte, su alteza real Alfredo, rey sin corona, regresa a lejanos recuerdos de juventud y a la época en la que soñaba con ser bombero. El encuentro con el instructor Afonso, del cuerpo de bomberos, abre un nuevo capítulo en la vida de los dos jóvenes inmersos en el amor y el deseo, y suscita su voluntad de cambiar el status quo.

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.

Un giallo postmoderno que secuestra nuestras mentes y sentidos para introducirnos en el mundo de Candide, un imperturbable y seductor asesino en serie que una noche se topa con una mujer que acaba de saltar de un edificio y que le pide un último beso antes de morir. Instante que capta una cámara y que le convierte en un fenómeno en las redes, empezando así una huida hacia adelante de incierto fin. Un film de imaginario subversivo, fetichista y surrealista de Carlos Conceição ("Serpentário") una de las voces más excitantes del cine portugués contemporáneo, con cameo de Leonor Silveira, actriz icónica del cine de Oliveira.

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.

The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.

Biografía cinematográfica que se centra en la agitada vida artística de António Variações, un famoso cantante de pop rock portugués de los años 80, que murió a causa de complicaciones relacionadas con el sida en 1984.

Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara’s seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to organise a birthday party. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught and anxious.

The story of two brothers with a sick mother and a reality that leads the audience through paths of secrets and lies, puts the viewer in the role of participatory observer, each drawing its own conclusions.

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the couple’s past begins to rear its head. Emma is overwhelmed by a secret that is simply too big for her to keep, and which she has no right to share with her twin sister.

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

Eva y Luis tienen ya su fecha de divorcio. Eva evoca entonces recuerdos de su amor.

En un país europeo en crisis, Portugal, un director se propone construir ficciones a partir de la miserable realidad que le rodea. Pero incapaz de encontrar sentido a su trabajo, huye de manera cobarde, dejando su lugar a la bella Sherezade. Ella necesitará ánimo y coraje para no aburrir al Rey con las tristes historias de ese país. Con el transcurrir de las noches, la inquietud deja paso a la desolación, y la desolación al encantamiento. Por eso Sherezade organiza las historias en tres entregas. Comienza así: "Oh venturoso Rey, fui conocedora de que en un triste país...". Libre adaptación de 'Las mil y una noches' ambientada en el Portugal de hoy, y dividida en tres películas. (FILMAFFINITY)

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Pedro and Laura are a modern couple and, for all friends, exemplary. Pedro is a young and successful manager who runs a parent company and has succeeded in a more successful case. Your wife, Laura, is also an architect. He has fun friends with whom he usually dines, goes out at night and goes on vacation together. Married five years ago, it's time to have a child. Modern and practical as they are, they have everything very well planned: they already know to whom daycare or child, in which private school the primary studies are shown, until the course is used when they grow up. In addition, there are some who have a child who is not prevented from living as always independent, but they do not just want to become "the parents of ...".

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.

Lisboa, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, una piadosa mujer dedicada a causas sociales, mantiene una peculiar relación con su vecina Aurora, una temperamental anciana obsesionada con el juego que vive atormentada por un misterioso pasado.

Side Effects is the story of a woman who's not afraid to believe that happiness is not only possible but the only truth to be achieved. A woman who won't give up believing in people. A woman who will fight against all adversities in order to let others not to give up a life worth living. Nowadays, the desire for happiness is a real heroic act.

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.

Márcia es madre soltera de dos hijos, trabaja como cocinera y comparte su casa en un barrio periférico de Lisboa con su hermana, Ivete, peluquera en un centro comercial. Un día, Cláudia, su hija, que estudia enfermería y trabaja como cajera en un supermercado, le cuenta que se ha enamorado de un hombre casado mayor que ella. Un apasionado relato familiar con todo el espíritu de los grandes melodramas.

Olívia is a film student. Newcomer to a new reality, she has an affair with a stranger. This turns to be Cesar, her Filmology teacher, who also requires her to complete a short about Manoel de Oliveira.

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.

"Filme da Treta" is inspired in a previous work called "Conversa da Treta", which can be translated as "Blather" or "Foolish Talk". In fact it all begun with a radio show (with that name) where two friends, "Toni" and "Zezé", talk about their lives and their neighbourhood (located somewhere in a typical district of Lisbon!). Because of the colloquial and comic language it used to be funny. Then it passed to the stage (kind of a dialog play) and later to a TV-show. As you can see it was a success here in Portugal and the audiences applauded it… Now, the film! "Filme da Treta" is, then, just an adaptation to the movies of this succeeded show, but it was, at least in my point of view, a regression! To be honest it was a disappointment, as I expected a lot more from it. I used to appreciate "Conversa da Treta", but now with the movie it lost all the fun!

Pele is a film about a young mulatto woman that in spite of being rich, beautiful and intelligent, feels discriminated because of the colour of her skin. The entire plot is in the early 70's, when Portugal had a dictatorial government, ultramarine territories and lots of racism in its society… Issues like racism, female condition and the spoilt lives of the high-society are the main themes of this movie

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.

Sherry, una joven que intenta escapar de su vida anterior, conoce a un grupo radical callejero, los SPARK (Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge - Gente de la calle armada de ideología radical), cuando está viviendo en las calles de una ciudad europea. Decide montarse en la furgoneta de los SPARK y recorrer el continente, reclutando gente de los grupos callejeros.

En la entrada de una discoteca en Lisboa, dos chicos, Pedro y Rui, se besan apasionadamente. Pedro coge el coche de vuelta a casa y Rui entra en la discoteca donde trabaja. Minutos más tarde, Pedro tiene un accidente mortal. En otra parte de la ciudad, Odete sueña con tener un hijo, pero su novio no quiere compromisos y la abandona...

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.

En Brasil, a Sor Sarah la ingresan en urgencias debido a unos extraños dolores. Atendida en la misión en que el padre Joachim ejerce de médico, el sacerdote muy pronto sospecha que la joven guarda algún secreto de su enigmático pasado. Decide entonces investigar su vida y descubre que Sarah tiene una hermana gemela, llamada Gaëlle, que se encuentra en Francia cumpliendo condena por haber cometido el más terrible de todos los crímenes. Como él también sufre remordimientos por su procopio pasado, decide trasladarser a París para seguir investigando y su curiosidad se convierte en obsesión. Haciendo caso omiso de sus principios y de las limitaciones que le impone su función sacerdotal, intenta por todos los medios descifrar el misterioso vínculo que une a las dos hermanas. Lo que no sospecha es que la verdad va a cambiar su vida para siempre.

Un jeep se desplaza lentamente a través del mercado, en el centro de Maputo. Al volante se encuentra Rui Pedro, un hombre de mediana edad que no parece muy preocupado por lo que ocurre en torno a él. Conduce a través de la ciudad, pasa por los suburbios y alcanza un camino solitario que lo conduce a un caserío abandonado. En ese paraje mozambiqueño, a la vera de un río misterioso, Rui Pedro había pasado sus primeros años cuando la dominación colonial estaba llegando a su fin y se enfrentó con la trágica e inevitable destrucción de su infancia. Hijo de colonizadores portugueses, su mejor amiga era Ana, una niña negra ahijada de su madre. Allí, por desgracia, tuvo que aprender a reconocer y a convivir con dos realidades bien diferentes –la europea y la africana–, a primera vista irreconciliables. (FILMAFFINITY)

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threatens the landlords. A new identity arises, a mix of old and new, of African and Portuguese culture, sensual and dynamic. The songs of Cesária Évora follow this inevitable transformation. From the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa.

En la Lisboa de 1938, cuando los totalitarismos triunfan en Europa, un periodista que ha trabajado siempre en la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un periódico. Su sentido fúnebre de la cultura va a chocar con el espíritu vital de su joven colaborador, con quien mantendrá una estrecha relación. Se desencadenará una crisis personal, que cambiará profundamente la vida del maduro periodista.

On an isolated Portuguese island, a nameless man makes a mental journey which brings him into contact with the strange and menacing world without peace and harmony.

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

"Crimen en Beja (Alentejo): Helmut Schneider, 23 años, de nacionalidad alemana, mecánico en la base de la OTAN ha sido encontrado asesinado. María Victoria Formosinho, 18 años, apodada Mitó, hija del responsable político del Partido Comunista local, ha pasado a disposición judicial". Al recibir el télex, Contreiras, director del periódico de Lisboa 'Las Actualidades', prepara un equipo de reporteros para enviar al lugar del crimen. Sangre, sexo y política en una región de Portugal donde esos hechos son muy poco habituales. (FILMAFFINITY)

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

Marisa, una mujer de treinta y ocho años, cuenta a su hija una extraña historia mientras caminan por un paso a nivel madrileño. Un antropólogo, Jaime, es perseguido por un misterioso jeep. En el transcurso de la persecución, se refugia en un pequeño motel. Cuando se instala, continua escribiendo en su diario personal, donde recoge todas sus impresiones sobre su trabajo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

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.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

Harto del mar, Paul, un mecánico suizo que trabaja en las ruidosas entrañas de un barco mercante, desembarca en Lisboa.

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

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 shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.

Narra la historia de amor del escritor Camilo Castelo Branco por Fanny Owen, una muchacha de origen inglés que, por su parte, se enamora de un compañero, amigo y rival del escritor, José Augusto.

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

A young agricultural conductor, Pedro goes to Alentejo to work in a farm, in March 1974. The contact with the workers and the experience of their problems make him aware of the exploitation to which they are subject. Such an attitude is not understandable to the workers - coming from the son of a friend of the boss.

A short film.

Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro.