Alexandre de Sousa

Portugal, finais dos anos 60. Tomás Palma Bravo (Rogério Samora), o Delfim, o Infante, é o herdeiro de um mundo em decomposição. É ele o dono da Lagoa, da Gafeira, de Maria das Mercês (Alexandra Lencastre), sua mulher infecunda, de Domingos, seu criado preto e maneta, de um mastim e de um “Jaguar E”, que o leva da Gafeira a Lisboa e às putas. Um caçador, detective e narrador, que todos os anos volta à Lagoa para caçar patos-reais, descobre, um ano depois, que Domingos apareceu morto na cama do casal Palma Bravo e que Maria das Mercês apareceu a boiar na Lagoa. Quanto a Tomás Palma Bravo e ao mastim, dizem-lhe que desapareceram sem deixar rasto.

Baseado nos acontecimentos da noite de 24 de Abril de 1974, esta é a história do Golpe de Estado que pôs fim à Ditadura e restaurou a Democracia em Portugal.

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...

Torturado aos 21 anos pela Inquisição por crime de judaísmo, Antonio José da Silva (1704-1736), nascido no Brasil e chamado de 'o judeu', redescobre o sentimento da vida através do teatro de marionetes. Casa com Leonor Maria de Carvalho, cristã-nova como ele, e freqüenta os salões aristocráticos dos 'iluministas' que o apóiam. Uma denúncia de heresia contra sua prima Brites Eugênia e o espírito irreverente das comédias desse 'Molière' português do século XVIII levam Antonio José, mais uma vez, aos cárceres do Santo Ofício junto com a mãe, Lourença Coutinho, e sua mulher.

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.

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting - the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate that investment. He gets some clues to the real situation in the town when the man driving his coach refuses to go any further and leaves him on a section of road which is practically paved with abandoned crutches. After a short trek, he meets up with the local dignitary who is to show him around, and he meets a priest and an artist. The priest gives a further clue to the events taking place in the village when he indicates that he's completely exasperated with the endless miracles that seem to be taking place. From that point onward, amazing coincidences, visions and miracles take place in great numbers.

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

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 ...

Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to his wife. His lawyer, Mr. Deliot, however, will try to discover the truth, because he is convinced that his client is innocent.

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but José begins to have doubts about the "honesty" of such intense feelings of love, feelings which are too intense (or hot) to him . If Maria Eugénia is like this with him, will she be the same with other men?In the meantime, the Revolution takes its course. José, who previously had been persecuted because of his opposition against the old regime, now feels "left behind" and frustrated.

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