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- The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
- Ana Maria was a modest young woman who loves Júlio, her guitarist. But when she becomes a famous singer and Júlio, feeling abandoned by her, decides to go to the African colonies, she will have to choose between fame and true love.
- Januario and his two daughters, Mel and Clara, live in Alentejo and work for Armando, as farmers. Mel and Armando's son, Bernardo, are secret lovers because their parents don't approve the relationship. Tired of hiding, Mel and Bernardo decide to run away. However, Clara discovers their plan and denounces them. Angry, Armando banishes the two sisters from his propriety and takes Bernardo with him and Januario for a business trip to Amsterdam. On the plane, among with them, goes Camila, a model that works for Helena, who later falls in love with the taxi driver and Camila's brother, Quim. Helena is a fashion designer who was kicked out of home by her father, Caetano, in the past. Januario, before going to Amsterdam, writes a letter to Caetano, saying that one of his daughters is actually Caetano's. During the trip to Amsterdam, the plane has some complications and crashes. The press reports that everyone died, except Camila, who is disfigured. However, Bernardo survived too and Camila knows it, but he decided to hide from everyone. When he returns, everything will be different.
- Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
- Passion and ambition interplay to bring dissention and tragedy into the home of an old fisherman married to a much younger woman.
- When a businessman's car crashes and burns, inspector Moisés of the criminal brigade is given the case, as the body has been stabbed. He'll try to reconstruct the financier's personality by the mirrored impressions on those who knew him.
- Twenty years after her husband disappears in combat, Madalena is married again but fears the return of her first husband, as this would annul her marriage, his happiness and turn her daughter into a bastard. A classic of Portuguese cinema.
- When Lucas, an amateur theater director, tries to become a professional, ends up fighting with Lico, an amateur actor. Things get worse when Lico falls in love with Lena, Lucas's niece, dating her without her uncle's permission.
- Castro 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.
- A humble country girl moves to the city to work as a maid, eventually finding love and adventure.
- Rosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home.
- Manuel da Cruz, a young apprentice in the saddle, is discovered by the cattleman João Gama, who marvels at his skill, deciding to make him a great bullfighter.
- Two young men try to survive in Lisbon, but their talents as writers is not recognized. Their intervention to defend Dionísia from her uncle's harassment is not appreciated by him. As he is the pension's owner, the three are put in the street. The girl returns to her home village; the two friends end up winning a lottery for a life insurance. Their dilemma is who shall be sacrificed for the other to get rich, and get the girl?
- Zé Luís, a hard-working man of Madragoa (popular district of Lisbon), loves Clara, the daughter of his godfather, the rich merchant Santana. Santana is rich enough to impose Zé Luís to marry a girl of his low social condition, Margarida, and to terminate Luís' employment at his shop, forcing him to work even harder at the docks. Santana goes bankrupt, Margarida dies of a disease, the parents of Zé Luís return very rich from Africa, and Zé Luís can marry lovely Clara, and help his godfather out of debt.
- Adriana Bento, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, falls pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Senhor Bento, kicks her our of home. What he does not know is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student. The latter becomes a lawyer and his first client is a young woman accused of having aborted after being seduced and abandoned. Which makes him think twice about his own attitude...
- In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
- The introduction of the bank checks in Portugal in the present, and the security that surrounds it, in confrontation with the traditional ways to keep bank notes hidden in a drawer or under a mattress.
- Being a literate person, and a degree of elementary school, is needed to get a good job, be it a professional truck driver, or a job abroad.
- The life of a school teacher, from her first assignment to a remote mountain village, her cold reception by an illiterate population, and her achievement through persistent action and socializing, and human help to the many difficulties of those people - from illness, to family problems. Her most difficult task was to teach the adults, a government campaign to integrate people.
- Sónia is an adventurous young woman, involved in research to produce a mass destruction weapon, in which two enemy countries are interested, for there is a war going on. She finds peace in a neutral country, Portugal, where she finds simplicity and oblivion of her troubles. Spies and counter-spies get to her again, and again she must flee...
- A child who learned to read can be helpful - and a shame - to the adults who were too lazy to attend school in their time - but now they have the opportunity to go to school again.
- The Silva family aspires to have a home. The inheritance of an aunt, who died in Argentina, comes to realize this desire, but raises new problems.