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- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMichael LonsdaleClaudia CardinaleJeanne MoreauSet in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsGuida MariaSinde FilipeJoão MotaA 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.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMaria Amélia MattaJorge RollaVarela SilvaRaised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.
- DirectorJorge Silva MeloStarsManuel WiborgLia GamaSylvie Rocha
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsBarbara LaageRogério PauloMário PereiraSet in a little remote village, where everyone is very religious and primitive, "O Crime de Aldeia Velha" (The crime of Aldeia Velha) tells the story of Joana, the most beautiful girl in village. She is badly regarded by all other women because they envy her and her affairs with men. As soon as accidents start happening involving her (at some point, she holds an already sick baby and he eventually dies), the women (and slowly, men too) in the village start claiming that she is possessed by the devil. At first,she doesn't believe it. They ask for two priests to exorcise her, but they leave and say to the people that she isn't possessed at all, and that people need to relax. But, little by little, they start convincing Joana that she is really possessed and she starts entering a stage of slight madness and behaving like she is. So, people "believing" that she isn't going to die, and that the demon will leave her body, with her permission, they end up burning her alive...
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsArtur SemedoAlina VazEugénio Salvador
- DirectorRino LupoStarsJoaquim AlmadaFrancisco AmoresJoaquim AvelarAfter serving a sentence for crime of passion, a seafarer arrives at Serra da Cabreira, becoming an element of fascination and disaggregation of the archaic village.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsMaria SampaioMaría DulceRaul de CarvalhoTwenty 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.
- DirectorConstantino EstevesStarsAntónio SilvaCremilda de OliveiraManuel Santos CarvalhoRidiculous 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.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsMariana VillarCurado RibeiroAlves da CostaPassion and ambition interplay to bring dissention and tragedy into the home of an old fisherman married to a much younger woman.
- DirectorErnesto de AlbuquerqueErico BragaStarsAusenda de OliveiraHenrique AlvesErico BragaIn 18th century Portugal, a romantic love story in which the heroine suffers from family, religious and social repression.
- DirectorJorge ListopadStarsCarmen DoloresLuís SantosAna de Sá
- DirectorArtur RamosStarsCosta FerreiraRuy de CarvalhoLily Neves
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaría CamposMaria de OliveiraRafael MarquesDominated by his wife, counselor Faustino Soares gets his revenge by having affairs with maids.