Rita Blanco

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

A movie in three parts; a one-act play, a short story, and a fable, bringing them all together brilliantly (combustiblecelluloid.com)

It is night and the road down by the river is deserted. Teenager Samuel gazes at the river Tejo intent on committing suicide. Elói, an old sailor, comes over to try and find out what the boy intends to do. Samuel invites him to come with him on his last dive into the river...

Alexandra Lencastre stars as the title character who thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House. On her birthday, she throws a huge party in honor of her re-election and plans to control the entire world.

Insolent motorcycle daredevil Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida. Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of that, they meet.

A woman seeks to unearth the truth about an ancestor.

Tiago and his master carry on a debate about free will. Tiago denies its existence, even as he engages in ever more unpredictable and provocative behavior. Rogue and master careen across the countryside, from car wreck to bordello to their next adventure.

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

During one night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

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.

The lives of Pedro, Ricardo and Andreia, three kids in their early teens who have rejected life in juvenile homes or with foster families to take their chances on their own.

Rita is an 18-year-old Portuguese teen who is upset when her Parisian cousin Ann comes to visit. The two teenage girls quarrel with each other, and Rita and her boyfriend Antonio argue. Soon, Ann and Antonio fall in love, and the jealous Rita tries to break up the happy couple, and Antonio takes her back when Ann finally returns to Portugal.

Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter, and his wife commits suicide over the heinous act.

Cinematic adaptation of the Livro do Desassossego (The Book of Disquiet) by the poet Fernando Pessoa.

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)

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested. (imdb)

Five characters meet in a esplanade, beggining a journey trought their lifes. "Assim Assim" ("So So") its a movie about relationships, about what we want for our lifes, and what we can't achieve. Tells the story of different couples, connected somehow with each other facing different problems. Between good and bad relationships, love and obstacles, anything can happen. (imdb)

Maria and José emigrated from Portugal 30 years ago. Ever since, they have lived in the modest lodgings of a chic apartment building in Paris, raising their now adult daughter and teenage son. When José learns he has inherited the family winery, they are elated but struggle with how to tell those around them. However, word of the big news spreads, and soon their family and friends are scrambling behind the scenes to find ways to prevent them from leaving. (imdb)

A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive. (imbd)

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)

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)

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

Beatriz Batarda plays Sara Moreno, a film and theater actress, known for the density of her dramatic roles and for the ease in crying in the characters she plays. With her father's illness, Sara fails to cry and is forced to accept the lead role in a soap opera, something that will transform her life completely. (imdb)