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- Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
- The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.
- The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.
- After flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
- 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.
- After a family disgrace Isabel needs internment in a mental residence. Her nurse will be her confident, the link to her husband and the outside world.
- 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 Coimbra, law student José Duarte and Maria de Lisboa lived a romance which ends when he goes away, achieving fame and fortune by singing. But she's pregnant and they will meet again when she's arrested by allegedly abandoning their son.
- In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
- 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.
- Lives of circus performers in times of decay.
- 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.
- 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.
- A documentary about the fabrication of cars in Portugal.
- Recent population growth in the capital leads to an ambitious development plan, involving public and private initiative as documented here, pinpointing over 60 locations (streets, roads, parks, schools) being modernized or built anew. The narrative and soundtrack are grandiloquent, in the propaganda style required by the Producer (the Municipal Council of Lisbon, then directly dependent of the national government), but the images and data are now of historical relevance.
- 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.
- 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...
- The story follows the character of Ricardo who arrives in Mozambique to escape a love disappointment.
- A documentary about a thoracic surgery.
- Biography of Francisco Xavier, a Portuguese catholic priest who preached in the eastern territories, namely in Goa, India.