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- CreatorLuís AlvarãesElsa GarciaFernando VendrellStarsMaria João BastosSoraia ChavesVictoria GuerraThe series follows three women - Natália Correia, Snu Abecassis, Vera Lagoa - who became major players in the cultural revolution that preceded the fall of the dictatorship that ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. Based on true events.
- DirectorPaulo FilipeStarsSinde FilipeIdir BenebouicheAmel Malhan HanifiManuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsTeresa MenezesDiogo DóriaMário BarrosoThe life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
- DirectorVicente Alves do ÓStarsDalila CarmoIvo CanelasAlbano JerónimoShaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsMário BarrosoLuís Miguel CintraTânia DinisThe film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through their poetry and their letters, the film builds a dialogue between longing and belonging, the "desire to fill years of distance with hours of conversation". At the same time, it establishes a correspondence with our own lives fictionalized under the ties and entanglements that hold us together.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLima DuarteLuís Miguel CintraRicardo TrêpaThe story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
- DirectorMiguel Gonçalves MendesStarsJoão AfonsoÀngels BarcelóPilar del RíoA documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsFernando Cabral MartinsAndré GomesJuliet BertoThe 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.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsTeresa MadrugaMário BarrosoLuís Miguel CintraPortrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAntonio VilarJosé AmaroIgrejas CaeiroThe adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
- DirectorSolveig NordlundStarsJosé AirosaSofia AparícioEliseu Beja"I write to have a mountain of books when I die." Psychiatrist António Lobo Antunes is one of the most internationally recognized Portuguese writers. His novels, usually settled in Lisbon, are published in prestigious publishers in several countries (Christian Bourgois, Random House, Luchterhand). In Nordlund's film, the characters and scenes from his books constantly interrupt the writer's speech. Lisbon invades his home. The voices of the characters impose themselves to the writer's house. António Lobo Antunes compares his writing to a watercourse that leaves to freely find its way.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRaul de CarvalhoTarquinio VieiraMaria Helena MatosBocage is a former navy officer, a cultured gentleman, a passionate man, and a poet. He lived in the second half of the 18th century, and he goes through a number of relationships, writing love poems to his Three Graces: his colleague Márcia - a wild girl - and her two sisters, Anália, who loves God more than men, and Canária, a sensual Brazilean 'canary' who lives to love...
- StarsMiguel GuilhermeFernando LuísCarla BolitoThe life of poet Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage focusing on his eccentric way of life and his erotic poems.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsPaulo MaurícioAmália RodriguesBarreto PoeiraCastro Alves is the great poet of the black slaves' liberation, in 19th century Brazil. Eugenia Camara is the wild actress who crosses the Atlantic and finds herself torn between two loves, in a whirlwind of passion.
- StarsDalila CarmoIvo CanelasJosé NevesFlorbela Espanca is one of the most important figures of 20th-century Portuguese poetry. Her story can be told with or without scandal, or fascination for scandal, but it will always be the story of a woman in love and who fell in love. This series is the intimate portrait of Florbela: a life full of suffering, but a poetry that was eternalised by its charm never far from sensuality.
- DirectorLuis Vidal LopesStarsFilipe FerrerAntónio Caldeira PiresÁlvaro SimõesBased on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and announcers of the fate of the entire planet.
- DirectorDjalma Limongi BatistaStarsVictor WagnerFrancisco FarinelliViétia ZangrandiThe film follows Manuel Maria du Bocage, 18th-century poet, as he travels through the world from orgy to orgy and from excess to excess.
- DirectorManuel MozosStarsClara Ferreira AlvesAntónio Lobo AntunesJoão Lobo AntunesA documentary about the life and work of José Cardoso Pires. The information was gathered through a series of interviews made by the journalist Clara Ferreira Alves during autumn and winter of 1997 and also by people who were close to him.
- DirectorArmando de MirandaStarsVirgilio TeixeiraAdelina CamposJuvenal de AraújoThe legendary life of José Teixeira da Silva, José do Telhado, married to his cousin Aninhas, defeated his father's resistance, due to the fame of his heroism during the civil war.
- DirectorJoão Mário GriloStarsClara Ferreira AlvesSuzana BorgesJoão LagartoAbout the Portugese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.
- CreatorJoana PalminhaStarsDiogo InfanteJosé Luís PeixotoLuís Miguel CaetanoA documentary series that talks about great Portuguese books.
- StarsJoão PerryVicente Jorge SilvaManuel RitaContrasting personal and family memories and the vivid present, an islander revisits the archipelagos of Azores and Madeira guided by a travelogue book written almost a century before.