Miguel Guilherme

The mythical Portuguese king D. Sebastião, missing in the battle of Alcácer-Quibir (1578), is at the center of the story.

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition. (imdb)

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based on Vieira's own writings. (answers.com)

193 days have passed since Alice was seen for the last time. Every day Mário, her father, leaves home to repeat exactly the same steps he took on the day Alice disappeared. Obsessed with tracking her down he installs several video cameras to record the movement on the streets... (Madragoa Filmes)

In fascist Portugal of the late 60s a rich landowner leads an idle life of hunting (animals and women), drinking and enjoying himself.

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blond woman that turns his life upside down.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy. (imdb)

Set in a near future where humans are dying breed, Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

She's a journalist. He's a corrector of the stock market. Both of them live in the same private high security building but never met.

Maria is a sweet child. She has no father and does not like her mother. She has a boyfriend who is a bandit who would like to change his class. There are two more bandits: a very tall singer and a guy who is a very short and a full of life's experiences. Neither of these two do much thinking, one even less than the other.

A day like any other. Lino Rodrigues Paes arrives at her office already knowing that nothing good awaits. But when you open a personal letter, he realizes that after all his life may have completely changed that day: a great-uncle, who for many years to get angry, just died leaving him an inheritance a huge estate.

A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace". (imdb)

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)

How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think? (imdb)

Girafa, a ten year old girl, faces the challenges of parting with her childhood in the context of a lost mother and grieving father.

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

The life of a family during the last days of the "Estado Novo" (fascist regime installed in Portugal in 1933) (imdb)

A police inspector witnesses a male body being washed ashore at a beach near Lisbon/Portugal. He follows the tracks of the deceased, finds a deserted car, a video camera and encounters a misterious woman (Silvie Testud) who all seem connected to the victims death. (imdb)

Sketch comedy show, all of them related to the central theme of the show in question. At first, Herman made a series of introductions to the topic, culminating in a series of jokes, according to the events of the past week. (imdb)

The misadventures of the two Fintas brothers Joca and Quim who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires. (imdb)