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- Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
- Charles Augustus Howell was John Ruskin's secretary, agent and model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and exhumer of Lizzie Siddal. But he is also said to have been a master blackmailer and a forger of works of art.
- Tone, the leader of the gang, returns home after sometime abroad, to try to save his father's life that is on the verge of death, and needs a liver transplant to survive. For this task he needs the help of his gang, once again.
- The struggle of a family on the path to Compostela. While they fight to survive each other, they need to escape a serial killer.
- This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.
- Manoel is an aging film director who travels with his film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France. In the process, he remembers his own youth.
- A group of friends that meet after some years apart,decide to hunt a treasure.
- Portuguese hybrid between fiction and documentary, youth and adulthood, and a young couple's widely different views of a dark future. Mariana is a young woman in her 20s who has moved from her parents' home in the northern part of crisis-ridden Portugal to Lisbon, to live with her boyfriend Alex. But now he is on his way to New York to pursue his ambitions as an actor. The two of them differ quite dramatically in their approach to the country's crisis and bleak prospects when they meet again in her home town, where a local myth talks about how crossing the river of oblivion will allow you to put the past behind you. Mariana and Alex must make their own choices. Lisbon, which is gradually recognized as a new Berlin, and the desolate landscapes in the north of the country are the locations where an elegant encounter takes place between a real social reality, the couple's own experiences and a cinematic vision, which is not limited by documentary dogma. 'A Girl of Her Age' is Márcio Laranjeira's debut and in its own words a 'documentary novel', in which Laranjeira demonstrates a special sense of a place's atmosphere and character, and for the underlying social and political currents.
- Two voyages: in space, along a river that serves as frontier between Portugal and Spain; and in time, through memories delivered on camera by a handful of old women, who fought with determination against the law, poverty, and illiteracy to provide for basic sustenance to their families. A few men add independent testimony to the hard life of those women smugglers: a railway's man and two customs officers.
- A story of a couple, the woman can't stand the countryside and the man can't stand the city. One day their son gets really hurt and the break.
- Documentary film about identity spectacle and ethnography.
- The amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.
- Three unscrupulous doctors led by an obsessed with the occult and science millionaire, try to manipulate the human psyche to achieve absolute power. Their methods lead them to conduct experiments on patients in a psychiatric hospital that resulted in several deaths and profound change some of them to a situation in which death itself would be a preferable order.
- In the debate on what political-cultural community the border regions must belong to, everyone has a point of view: from the controversial disputes between historians, philologists and politicians to the most dedramatizing opinions of the inhabitants of these regions. All of them speak in Fronteiras about how they perceive the fact that administrative divisions don't always coincide with cultural limits. An approach to the construction of collective identities trough the regions bordering with Galicia in Asturias, León, Zamora and Portugal.