Luís Santos

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

Portugal 1997. Um acidente nuclear deixou o país sem energia e dividido em Zonas, algumas das quais estão interditadas por causa da contaminação. A crise econômica é grave e o desemprego quase total. Afonso, Vítor e Diniz, na véspera da transferência de Afonso para uma Zona onde iria trabalhar, aproveitam um automóvel, que foi abandonado depois de um assalto a um posto de gasolina, para fazerem uma festa de despedida. A viagem é acidentada. Perdem o automóvel e quando querem regressar os problemas surgem.

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.

The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.

Em Portugal, no início dos anos 60, aparece na Praia dos Cães o cadáver de um homem brutalmente assassinado. O cadáver é identificado como sendo o do major Dantas, um homem procurado pelas autoridades após a sua evasão de uma prisão militar onde aguardava julgamento por insurreição.

Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.

A broke Count awaits for a bot that never comes.

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.

The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unusual vow of celibacy and a gang of gypsies who are terrorizing their village. The film highlights many ancient religious traditions still current in these regions, as the villagers, devout Catholics, support the gypsy con-men by buying religious relics from them.