Cecília Guimarães

A notícia de que Olga Drummond está para chegar à Casa dos Atores, provoca uma grande agitação entre residentes e funcionários. A chegada de Olga, considerada a maior atriz portuguesa de todos os tempos, inspira memórias de afetos, admiração e, também, de algum ressentimento. Mas quando um jantar é preparado em sua honra, todos anseiam por a ver. Olga, no entanto, parece alheada de tudo, a idade e uma doença degenerativa tiraram-lhe o brilho e a luz de outros tempos. Até que som das palmas a trazem de volta.

Vasco Leitão, vive da mesada das tias, que vivem no Porto e o consideram um aluno cumpridor. Mas Vasco prefere os bares e as mulheres bonitas, em particular Alice, uma rapariga com talento para a música e filha do candidato a Primeiro Ministro José Caetano. Os azares de Vasco sucedem-se: no mesmo dia em que volta a reprovar uma prova oral, recebe um e-mail em que as tias lhe anunciam uma visita a Lisboa.

Lázaro de Jesus é o filho adotado de uma senhora rica de Lisboa, a quem chama Avó. É ela que o apresenta ao Padrinho, um grande empresário que o toma como seu protegido, e a Angelina, a mulher com quem a Avó pretende que ele se case. Mas Lázaro tem outros interesses ocultos, o mais importante dos quais é uma fixação obsessiva pelas axilas femininas. Quando vê a violinista Maria Pia a tocar, Lázaro apaixona-se de imediato e passa a viver em função dela, o que irá precipitar um final absolutamente imprevisível.

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.

Mariana tem 17 anos, vive na periferia de Lisboa e é estudante de liceu. Um dia vê-se confrontada com uma situação desesperada: é violada por um toxicodependente e descobre mais tarde estar grávida. Por medo, vergonha ou raiva decide encobrir de todos – pais, namorado, amigos, polícia e tribunal – e enfrentar o sucedido sozinha. Apenas um insistente inspector da judiciária, uma espécie de anjo da guarda, e uma prostituta pragmática assistem ao percurso secreto de sobrevivência à violação, subsequente gravidez indesejada e possível contaminação com sida desta jovem, que se vê assim forçada a uma “passagem” para a idade adulta conturbada.

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

Um emigrante português na Holanda morre num acidente e é sepultado em Amsterdã. Mas a sua alma não descansa em paz enquanto o corpo não for trasladado para Portugal.

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.

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.

Após um ataque terrorista em África, um misterioso homem refugia-se no Alentejo com a certeza de que não se tratou de um acidente. Mais tarde ou mais cedo, ele sabe que alguém o irá encontrar mas recusa-se a fugir sem o seu grande amor.

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando’s exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural hallucinations that can only be remedied through music and, finally, the love of a stranger. Pinto made this impassioned fairy tale as part of a series of films about the four elements. - FilmLinc

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

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.

Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.

Farto do mar, Paul, um mecânico suíço que trabalha nas barulhentas entranhas de um navio mercante, desembarca em Lisboa.

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of Fátima. Turned over by Angela, her aunt, into the care of Dr. Firmino, an imposing doctor, she will suffer moments of despair, grace, and fear, among beliefs, phantoms, and revelations.

Bráulio is a rich man, and the patriarch of the family. At one of the many boring dinner parties his family gives, he meets a guest that preferes to hide under the table.

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.

Lisboa, 1876. Durante a ausência de Jorge, engenheiro de minas, a sua mulher Luísa deixa-se seduzir por Basílio, um parente com quem rompera anos atrás. Juliana, ambiciosa criada de Luísa, faz chantagem a propósito de umas cartas comprometedoras, o que leva Luísa a recear um escândalo. Basílio deixa Lisboa e Luísa de cabeça perdida pelas exigências sucessivas de Juliana, acaba por tombar de fatal enfermidade.