Anabela Moreira

A provincial Portuguese family has to deal with the Russian Mafia after a deal went wrong.

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mother's crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure there's no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brother's return so she can fulfill her promise of avenging her father's blood.

The realities of life are harsh in Padre Cruz, a slum on the edge of Lisbon, and its inhabitants struggle with violence and poverty. João Canijo's latest feature portrays life in this decrepit Portuguese suburb through the story of a family attempting to transcend its hardships. (imdb)

Caxinas, fishing district of Vila do Conde. The relationship between the fishermen in the area and their wives is based on their trust and mutual dependence for survival. The women trust and depend on the fisherman to make a living and the fishermen trust and depend on the woman to care for the home and family life. In this film about love, Canijo follows a group of women in their day-to-day. (Público)

A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour. (imdb)

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religion, family and love become entangled. (imdb)

An intense entanglement of five women and their relationship, mostly mother-daughter.

Five women are running an old hotel. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend and are drawn into a web of ongoing conflict. (imdb)

In 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice. (imdb)

A man whose search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal. His excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother soon turns to horror when he discovers he is linked to them by a monstrous secret. (imdb)

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly employee on a TV show. But at night, he dons his neighbour’s uniform to win the favour and satisfy the desires of a boy he’s met online. In her retirement home, Júlia is unable to sleep at night and has long forgotten what drugs she is meant to be t

A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's. (imdb)

Avril, a young lawyer specializing in animal defense, goes to great lengths to save her client, a repeat-offender dog, from capital punishment. This dog helps Avril accept her own human complexity.