Мариу и Клаудиа переживают бракоразводный процесс, отмеченный спором об опеке над их двумя детьми. Мариу считает радость главным правилом воспитания, но из-за небрежности или невезения подвергает своих детей нестандартным ситуациям. Клаудиа же амбициозна и сосредоточена на своей работе... Дети живут поочередно с родителями. Разрыв происходит, когда Мариу не разрешают быть со своими детьми, а Клаудиа соглашается на работу в другой стране. С детской мудростью дети приведут родителей к переоценке своих убеждений...
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.
Люсия, в поисках письма, которое отец оставил ей, возвращается на ферму своего детства. Там встречает Алвару, друга детства, который страдает от неизлечимой болезни. Он разделяет то небольшое время, которое ему осталось, между розами и фортепиано, и Ангелом-Хранителем, который сопровождает и защищает её в её ночных блужданиях...
For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality.
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.
At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Françoise had acquired through artfulness what Afonso had lost in anger in the kingdom. She had him imprisoned ( November 1667 ) and quickly obtained a papal bull from Rome to confirm her virginity and bless her marriage to her brother-in-law Pedro. Portugal's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.
