O filme decorre em Cabo Verde, Brasil e Portugal em 1852. Um levantamento de tropas, na cidade da Praia, instigado por oficiais desterrados para o arquipélago, em consequência da derrota dos partidários do infante D. Miguel, na guerra civil portuguesa, é o núcleo histórico do filme. Os rebeldes, contrariando as suas próprias convicções antiliberais, tentam aliciar para seu campo a população escrava, à falta de outros meios humanos que lhes corporizem os desígnios. Conspiração político-militar por um lado, insurreição de escravos por outro, ambas associadas, mas transitoriamente convergentes, e a mistura não podia ser senão explosiva. Se o núcleo histórico do filme é abertamente conflituoso, o núcleo dramático não é menos, com uma tecitura melodramática, que nos remete, em pleno, para o período romântico, em que a acção decorre.

Pepe e Rafa são dois irmãos que passam a vida a sonhar com o regresso do pai (Rafael) que os abandonou há quinze anos atrás. Pepe é mecânico de profissão e vive na periferia de Lisboa com o irmão, dois anos mais novo, a mãe, Lena, e a avó, a quem todos chamam Pipa. Mas quando Rafael inesperadamente reentra na vida dos filhos, o peso do seu passado vem desequilibrar a delicada teia familiar. De uma forma tão urgente quanto violenta, Rafa e Pepe confrontam-se então com o verdadeiro valor da relação que os mantém unidos. Até quando?

1991 film by José Antonio Zorrilla

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.

Natural do Fundão, Matias decide um dia voltar a Lisboa, para revisitar amigos e lugares que não vê, desde que cumpriu o serviço militar. Vem à boleia, com destino à Calçada de Carriche. Num primeiro giro de reconhecimento, estranha a hostilidade latente no bairro, percorrido por carros de patrulha e jovens marginais, que o interpelam agressivamente, nos mesmos sítios onde antes reinava a camaradagem...

2012 film

television series

Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share the same room, the same tastes, the same bike, the same camping tent. But also a conflict principle sets in. Oppressed by his overbearing need, she decides to head for the south of Portugal, the country of their parents. His dreams are shattered; he feels deeply betrayed by his sister. Caught between his father who is preparing to retire to Portugal and his mother who refuses to leave France, he tries to work out his own identity. His passion for rock music gets him involved with his sister's former lover. By following this charismatic leader preaching dubious ideology, he risks losing his "gentle half" forever. Meanwhile in Portugal, she becomes disillusioned. Will they manage to grow up without each other?

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.

Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.

2000 Portuguese film by José Nascimento

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets his friends. It's summertime and they all go down to the river where they spend their free time or even their school time. Among joints, motorbike riding and swimming, everything seems to go well with this group of friends, until the moment when Pedro and his best friend find out that both of them like the same girl. Pedro finds himself inside a downward spiral, where everything around him seems to fall apart. Like a magnet attracts the iron, Pedro seems to attract problems, from the school until his relationship with his parents. This is the story of Pedro, who by having his head being pushed down so much learned how to breathe under water.

2015年加拿大国际电影节最佳新人奖得主、葡萄牙导演布鲁诺·加斯康的第二部长片，影片改编自真人真事，讲述一位母亲因十一岁儿子突然失踪而深陷痛苦，面对警察的无作为，她孤身寻亲十六年，发现地下网络世界存在拐卖、性虐待儿童的惊人犯罪事实。影片表面上是犯罪类型片，其内核是对受害者家庭的人道主义关怀，饰演母亲的女演员安娜·莫雷拉以扣人心弦的动情表演，呼吁社会各界加强对未成年人的司法保护。