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- 19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful, and modern, and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.
- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- Alvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn't know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious sensual woman, he decides not to tell the police about the lift he gave her and investigates her by himself. He gets involved with her, but she remains too mysterious about her personal life. He ends up tangled in a web of murder, mystery and sex because of that woman, who he barely gets to know.
- Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.
- Estefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
- Interview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.
- Two couples live through attraction, distraction, sympathy, friendship, quarrel, jealousy, fidelity, and the Devil supervises it all by delivering solemn warnings in choice moments.
- An arms smuggler organization uses a pirate television station to spread dissention among representatives in an international conference in Portugal. A French diplomat travels to Macao, hoping to locate a sexy spy who had stayed in Lisbon...
- End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.
- Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the police is too busy to care. A mysterious Major - eventually from the secret police - approaches Kilas in order that his gang will set up a discreet vigilance on the house of a notorious anti-fascist person. Kilas is only happy to oblige, as he is being paid for the guys' work - until the contract is upped to place a bomb in the house. Now, that's too much even for a low pimp like Kilas! But - meanwhile he has a love dispute to settle with that house's owner; and that is a real psychological conflict that Kilas would wish not to have...
- The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
- Isabel, a girl in her late teens, is unable to determine herself and understand herself - lost in the memory of her late mother, living with her father and sister, and discovering love with Diogo. Emptiness and somber perspectives of the future seem to encircle them, despite of moments of loud music in a nightclub or a sunny day at the beach.
- Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills - traditional or industrial ones -, manipulation of the flour into actual bread, transport to a variety of locations and consumers. And then, after the consumption, the cycle restarts.
- An essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.
- Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
- A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
- XV century. D. Afonso, an old jealous noble, orders all to leave when the woman, D. Leonor, goes to church to pray to the Virgin of Mercies.
- A film crew goes to Várzea dos Amarelos visit the mother of the director, fixing some of the moments of the local life and listens to the old lady.
- A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.
- Jaime is not used to lose. Rita passes through him, through his life and his ideas, and enjoyed it - for a time. She is not that sophisticated to discuss Chandler, or classic music, and one day she leaves, as fast as she first drove into him.
- A man is too busy to care and show his affection to his wife, and she founds solace and happiness in the arms of a younger man. The husbands sets a detective after proofs of her infidelity, but he sets up a jealous revenge plot before the detective confirms his suspicions.
- 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.
- Innovative approach to an industrial film on a beach resort hotel, with emphasis on its architecture and interior design, and the contrast with the rich natural and built patrimony of the village, side by side with the traditional fishermen's activity.
- The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and his complete filmography. One segment documents the epic way directors attempted to bypass official censorship to show their movies out of the country.
- During a revolution, the people won't wait for lengthy judicial procedures.
- An homage to the independent theater groups in times of economic restrictions in public funding for non commercial groups.
- City couple lacking an objective in life, and happiness, buy a large piece of land in the vast planes of Alentejo. At first, they are happy learning to live like peasants, with simplicity and frugality. They watch them actually working for their daily bread, from throwing the seeds to the earth, harvesting, milling, and baking the bread, and always singing. António sets after a beautiful, married woman, Teresa, and her husband Joaquim vows revenge. But when he watches Jorge, a friend of António, sexually assaulting Isabel, Joaquim's christian soul takes over, and he saves Isabel. This brings peace and reconciliation for both estranged couples.
- This is a documentary about a way of living in Madeira island in Portugal, after the revolution, after April's 25 in 1974. A unique document for the country and especially for the Madeira island remembering those times of hard living.
- City center during the weekly open air market. Scenes of the official homages by the local authorities, attributing to a benefactor of City.
- The tobacco industry in Portugal through time and the full process, from plantation of seeds to its vanishing in smoke.
- Images illustrate a poetic text in three parts - Morning, Afternoon, and Evening - with variations on work and leisure, heat and coolness, and love and sex.
- A realistic view of street scenes of Luanda, with no racial segregation, and just a hint of the colonial war by the presence of some soldiers in the esplanades. Some historic monuments, the grandeur of nature, the calm bay on the coast to the magnificent waterfalls in the interior are a silent appeal to peace and tourism. The contrast of a past grandeur and some buildings in decay is made more sharp with the lavish skyscraper facade and busy interior of a modern bank headquarters.
- A documentary on the natural and man-made beauty of what is one of the most old human settlements in the Iberia peninsula.
- Returning from Angola, having fought in the Portugues Colonial War, Ilídio dreams of returning to his fiancée, Maria. But Maria believes that she is a woman of the church and doesn't want to marry him anymore.
- Images of Almada, from the remnant 16th century noble houses and painted tiles, through images of the traditional houses of the village to the modern industrial installations in its outskirts, to the inauguration of the bridge across the Tagus on August 6, 1966, with superb views of Lisbon and the Tagus' mouth.