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Alda et Maria
5.5

Alda et Maria

Dec 10, 2012
Lisbonne, été 1980. Deux sœurs de seize et dix-sept ans arrivent d’Angola pour fuir la guerre. Livrées à elles-mêmes, Alda et Maria vont devoir apprendre à survivre sans argent, dans une banlieue grise et polluée de cette ville étrangère. Avec la complicité d’autres Angolais, les deux adolescentes s’organisent une existence précaire. Cet exil va leur apprendre à choisir leur destin en devenant des femmes fortes et dignes…
Drama
A Maldição do Marialva
2
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.
Horror
My Fair Lady: Minha Linda Senhora
1
The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, at the head of a luxury cast of more than 70 actors, singers, dancers and musicians.
Paraíso Perdido
7

Paraíso Perdido

Jan 01, 1995
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Drama
Histórias de Alice
10

Histórias de Alice

Mar 31, 2016
Il raconte l'histoire d'un cinéaste brésilien, Lucas. À la mort de sa mère, Alice, à Belo Horizonte, elle cherche les racines portugaises de sa famille à travers l'océan, découvrant une histoire d'amour complexe. Le père de Lucas, Olavo, était le fils d'un très riche industriel portugais, Joaquim, est déshérité lorsqu'il épouse Alice, la mère de Lucas, une femme très pauvre qui vivait dans une maison de chambres de la ville de Porto, au Portugal. Face à l'imminence de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, tout le monde part pour le Brésil, s'installant dans le Minas Gerais. En enquêtant sur son passé le plus lointain, Lucas fait des découvertes sur d'éventuels actes criminels de son propre père, Olavo. Lucas est aidé par Teresa, une jeune femme portugaise qui travaille comme restauratrice d'anciennes églises portugaises à l'intérieur du Portugal. Lucas, aidé de Teresa, tente de reconstituer les histoires de sa mère Alice, et finit par tomber amoureux de Teresa.
Drama
O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
1
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.
Fantasy
Vidas a Crédito
1

Vidas a Crédito

Apr 29, 2012
Sofia is a big spender so she frequently abuses of the credit card. When her husband is fired, she is forced to change her life.
Drama
Fátima
7

Fátima

Oct 10, 1997
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Drama
Gigola
3.7

Gigola

Jun 06, 2010
Dans les années 60, George, une jeune prostituée, s'autodétruit après le suicide de sa compagne...
Drama
A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses
1
The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life.
Drama
Aqui D'El Rei!
5.8

Aqui D'El Rei!

Apr 24, 1992
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Drama
As Ruínas no Interior
1
During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.
War
Pai nosso – os últimos dias de Salazar
1
Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the longest-serving fascist dictator, falls from his chair and suffers a stroke. Returning to his Palace to recover from illness, he is no longer President. No one reveals this him: neither his loyal housekeeper, nor his hard-working maids, nor his doctor. Does Salazar want to overcome death and perpetuate his power? How can he stay sane in that hallucinatory Palace?
Drama
Festa é Festa
7

Festa é Festa

Sep 26, 2023
A village in the interior of Portugal is preparing the best village festival ever, in the year that marks the centenary of its greatest benefactor. Everyone does their best in organizing the party always with something in mind: the inheritance of the elderly woman.
Soap
Cuidado com as Aparências
1
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances.
Comedy
Conta-me Como Foi
8.7

Conta-me Como Foi

Sep 16, 2023
Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
Family
Pôr do Sol
8.6

Pôr do Sol

Sep 02, 2022
Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy...
Comedy
Sabbath
1

Sabbath

Jan 06, 1989
Exploring perspectives on witches from different angles, ranging from historical accounts to popular folklore, shedding light on the complex narratives surrounding these notorious figures.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Ballet Rose - Vidas Proibidas
8
When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Crime
Massa Fresca
10

Massa Fresca

Aug 04, 2016
Maria Miguel, a young, optimistic 21-year-old girl that lost her mother to cancer three years ago and has never met her father, is forced to struggle daily to make a living in a local pizzeria in order to pay a debt. Her life changes dramatically when a wealthy family takes her to live into their house after a bike accident which saved the family's children.
Soap
Aqui Tão Longe
1

Aqui Tão Longe

Apr 01, 2016
A Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.
Drama