Luís Alberto

Joana receives her grandfather’s ashes. At home, she finds his voyage diary that belonged to her grandfather and decides to recreate that journey. On the road, she meets Rui, who helps to find the truth about her past.

Antonio Botto and Fernando Pessoa, two renowned Portuguese poets, exchanged fictitious love letters. Botto wrote under his own name, and Pessoa signed as 'Manuel de Andrade'. But as time passed, these letters gained a new level of importance in both poets' lives.

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.

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

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy.

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

Written in 1962, a classic piece by Luís de Sttau Monteiro, in a production by Artur Ramos. The play takes place during the English occupation, after the French Invasions. The court is in Brazil and Portugal governs the Governor, the Cardinal and an Englishman, General Beresford. The people are unhappy and the figure of Gomes Freire de Andrade, the head of Freemasonry, appears as an alternative to the current Power. But the conductors think that Gomes Freire is a danger and decide to arrest him and judge him. His wife does everything to make him loose. Participating Estrela Novais, António Rama, Carlos Daniel, António Marques, Alexandre de Sousa, Manuel Cavaco, Vítor de Sousa, Simão Rubim, Almeno Gonçalves, Luís Alberto, José Gomes, Ana Enes, Silva Heitor, Andrade e Silva, João Didelet and Manuela Cassola.

A middle-aged businessman, a neo-liberal, returns to Portugal to realize the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communist" revolutionaries. He fails. He even fails to meet his death, from which he mysteriously "escapes". To be continued?

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.

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.

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...