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- 19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful, and modern, and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll.
- Thirteen-year-old girl starts playing in a band while arguing with parents.
- 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.
- On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can't get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?
- 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.
- Theatrical drama influenced by the Portuguese medieval poem of the same name, about an island promised to Lusitanian warriors by the Goddess Venus.
- A vibrant glimpse at the history of early European cinema through the story of a man who dedicated his life to the world of film.
- A couple of traditional fishermen are linked by a secret vote of chastity. One day, they take in a wounded gypsy man, out of their Christian piety. As time goes by, a relationship, and love emerges between the healthy young woman and the gypsy. The reaction of the local society, and the explosion of repressed sentiments will come to a swirling vortex of violence - abduction, shootings, and forced sex.
- In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Unfortunately they belong to two different fisher castes and the community as well as their respective families condemn their love...
- A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
- Falacha is the captain of a fishing boat of Nazaré who lost part of his men in a shipwreck. Among them was the husband of Aunt Aurélia, who holds Falacha responsible for this tragedy. A few years later, Maria, Falacha's daughter, falls in love with Manuel, Aurélia's son, which makes the two young people the new Romeo and Juliet. As for Falacha, he succumbs to social pressure and commits suicide...
- Owners of Portugal is a documentary about 100 years of economic power. The film portrays the protection of the State to the families that dominated the country's economy and its strategies for conserving power.
- An essay on the military revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974, based on first-person retrospective of events the coup leader, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, until the end to the revolutionaries leadership in November 25, 1975; the memories have a counterpoint analysis in excerpts of texts read by the author, the philosopher Eduardo Lourenço, and end in a brief dialogue between the two. The essay is interspersed with reflections and fictional conversations with friends by Robert Kramer, playing himself as an American journalist in Lisbon in 1981, and is followed by the historic speeches of two military leaders, on July 13, 1974.
- Play writer and stage and film actor Miguel Franco (1918-1988) "narrates" his biography via a selection (by Miguel Cardoso) of his literary texts, newspaper chronicles, interviews and private letters, over images from his personal archive of 8 and Super 8 mm with additional images from the 16 mm news archive from the national TV broadcaster about some of of his theatrical works. The choice of music that underlines the scenes was made from Miguel Franco's favorite music pieces.
- A portrait of the orientalist Portuguese author Wenceslao de Moraes.
- Part of the "Cinema Mythiques" collection, this documentary follows the history of the Batalha Cinema in Oporto, Portugal, one of the oldest movie theatres still in operation.
- Ridiculous prejudices of the urban middle bourgeoisie at the end of the 19th century, through the reveries of the Counselor Faustino who, dominated by his wife Maria, gets revenge by having affairs with the maids.
- Diana is a teenager who is looking for true love, the kind of love she recognizes on her father's, Gabriel, relationship with her stepmother, Madalena. However, Diana finds out that Madalena has a lover, Miguel, and that she is leaving her father for him. Gabriel falls into a dreadful depression and seeing him like that, Diana decides to try to separate Madalena from Miguel. Yet, during her efforts, Diana finds what she really wanted but in the man she hates the most..
- Twenty-two years after her death, the great singer Amália Rodrigues continues to inspire fado. In her wake, a musical journey to Portugal lulled by saudade.
- XV century. D. Afonso, an old jealous noble, orders all to leave when the woman, D. Leonor, goes to church to pray to the Virgin of Mercies.
- The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.
- When Amadeu discovers that his uncle, Mr. Costa, is returning from the Portuguese colonies in Africa, he panics. He wasted all the money he gave him so he will try to create an illusion for his uncle not to realize that he's broke.
- 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.
- Manuel is a bank clerk, melancholic and atheist, torn between two Ana Maria, a quiet, religious girl, and Albertina, a fiery, daring art-model. His bank opens a branch in Africa, and he works there a couple of years. When he comes back, both girlfriends are married. Manuel falls prey to economic problems and faces moral dilemas, eventually finding a priesthood vocation.
- A digest of cut scenes that survived from the Portuguese censorship film board, from films of various origins from 1945 to 1974. The present collection includes mostly scenes cut for political reasons, and a few for moral reasons.
- Short film released through the Gestos and Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine. This short was released with another short titled O Ah. das coisas, 21 de Abril 2020 a few weeks later, each with the intent of documenting the observations made during the quarantine.
- Digest of scenes cut by the Portuguese film censorship board from films of a variety of origins, shown in Portugal between 1945 and 1974. The cuts were founded in political or moral objections by the censors.
- The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and his complete filmography. One segment documents the epic way directors attempted to bypass official censorship to show their movies out of the country.
- Follows the creation of an electrical company using water energy as source.
- A movie about Évora, showing how the city is more than just buildings and becomes part of the social and human life in Alentejo
- Three sisters recall and discuss a photograph of their childhood more than sixty years later.
- An homage to the independent theater groups in times of economic restrictions in public funding for non commercial groups.
- Digest of scenes censored by the Portuguese censorship film board, from 60 titles, ranging from 1946 to 1971 and from a number of countries, and various genres.
- This is a documentary about a way of living in Madeira island in Portugal, after the revolution, after April's 25 in 1974. A unique document for the country and especially for the Madeira island remembering those times of hard living.
- The ill-conceived loves of Rosa, a modest seamstress, and Fernando a doctor, leaving in the shadow the fateful passion of António (a liberal) for the young woman.
- Biography of Francisco Xavier, a Portuguese catholic priest who preached in the eastern territories, namely in Goa, India.
- City center during the weekly open air market. Scenes of the official homages by the local authorities, attributing to a benefactor of City.
- An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.
- Lisbon and its accessibility, in the crossroads of a swift change in the pace of means of transport, from narrow rural paths to large streets and roads for motor vehicles.
- The biography of a retired producer in the first person, with many locations where he lived or worked, plus archive documents illustrating a life story that spans decades of Portuguese film history.
- Memories of a film that became classic, with the director and his then child star, through the people who were family or neighbors of other actors. Or, how memory is a continuum from parents to children, and helpful documents.
- 1989– 1h 44m7.6 (434)TV EpisodeTwo directors struggle to survive in the movie industry.
- Mattos Lobo's agonizing execution in 1842 shocked the Portuguese Society. The Gabinete de Frenologia from the Escola Médica de Lisboa, required to the justice authorization to decapitate the condemned, in order to study his cranium and determine the degree of his criminality. The idea of regenerating the criminals began to gain strength at that time. Portugal wasn't the first country to abolish the death penalty, but it was one of its pioneers.
- 2014–201529mTV EpisodeCUF became the largest private economic group in the Iberian peninsula, and marked the Industrial and financial history of the 20th century in Portugal from its first years, linked with the government's policies in the 1930's, through the cycle of expansion in the 1960s and ending in the dispersion of the Group after its nationalization in 1975.
- The roots of the Galician people, sardine cannery, Britain's long alliance with the Portuguese, Lisbon Portugal, Palace Square.