Paulo Pires

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Second Life
4.077

Second Life

Jan 21, 2009
Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life.
Drama
Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites
5.6
Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
Drama
Dernier Appel pour Rio !
5.1
Les meilleurs amis Pedro, Kiko et David se rendent à Rio de Janeiro pour rapatrier le corps de Mateo, leur ancien camarade de lycée, mort dans des circonstances suspectes. Mais, lorsqu'ils arrivent au Brésil, rien n'est ce qu'il semble être. Le "défunt" s'est enfui, sa maison est saccagée et l'une de ses ex-copines tente désespérément de le retrouver… L’aventure commence !
Comedy
Maria e as Outras
3

Maria e as Outras

Apr 29, 2004
Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be happy with their lives. One day though, everything changes. Maria is forced to take care of her father, victim of a brain accident. During these days of turbulence, Maria thinks she has found the perfect man, a mysterious Star, an habitué of chat channels on the Internet. The three friends find out that cense of humour can be the key for a happy life. Internet, romance, a bachelor party; marriage, dates and some adventures are Loving Maria. A film where love shows himself with the most different looks. Love arrives when you don't expect it and goes away when you think it is safe. It can even appear in the light of a mobile computer.
Comedy
Do outro lado do mundo
1
Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the fatal attraction that she causes.
Drama
Quarta Divisão
5.6

Quarta Divisão

Feb 28, 2013
The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?
Thriller
Bairro
4.5

Bairro

Jun 26, 2013
Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.
Crime
O Milagre Segundo Salomé
5.4
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
Drama
O Fascínio
5

O Fascínio

Dec 26, 2003
An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
Drama
Un suave olor a canela
5.7
Valia is a young woman used to observing others as part of her work, and so reality is becoming a canvas where characters live out a kind of life. She records the same shot with a small video camera: the street in front of her apartment where there is a restaurant. Some days later, she meets Guido, the owner of the Italian restaurant. Guido is her antithesis, perfectly adapted to daily life and conscious of his own social dimension. Valia, on the other hand, lives in this two-dimensional world, separated from what is actually happening and what she observes. Valia's life changes when she discovers a small lump on her breast and she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With Guido, Valia recovers her otherness while facing her end.
Até Amanhã, Camaradas
6.5
Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.
Drama
À une heure incertaine
5
 1942. Dans le Portugal de Salazar, deux réfugiés Français suspects, Boris et Laura, sont arrêtés. L’inspecteur Vargas, séduit par la jeune femme, décide de les cacher chez lui : un hôtel désert où il vit avec sa fille Ilda et sa femme gravement malade. Ilda découvre leur présence et, rongée par la jalousie, s’attache à les faire disparaître coûte que coûte…
Drama
Um Amor de Perdição
5.9

Um Amor de Perdição

Aug 13, 2008
A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
Drama
¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila
7
Madrid, 1936. Miguel Gila lives peacefully and happily with his grandparents in a humble attic. But the outbreak of the Civil War forces Miguel, along with his friend Pedro, to go to fight. There Gila survives misery, battles, firing squad and jail thanks to his humor. Because of this unique way of interpreting the world around him, Gila will become one of the most popular comedians in Spain and Latin America.
Drama
A Morte De J.P. Cuenca
2
In 2008, a corpse identified by the police with the birth certificate of the writer João Paulo Cuenca was found in an occupied building in Lapa. Inspired by this fact, the movie investigates the theft of the author´s identity in a ghostly Rio de Janeiro and in deep transformation. If in fiction and in crime sections of newspapers it’s common to read about people who steal the identity of someone dead to start a new life, what we have here is the opposite case: someone who steals the identity of a living man to die in his place.
Documentary
Zeus
1

Zeus

Jan 05, 2017
Un biopic consacré à la vie et au parcours politique du président portugais Manuel Texeira Gomès (1862-1941), mort en exil à Béjaia
History
Alguém Como Eu
4.9

Alguém Como Eu

Oct 12, 2017
Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help.
Comedy
Caminhos Magnétykos
10

Caminhos Magnétykos

Apr 25, 2019
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Drama
Alta Fidelidade
1

Alta Fidelidade

Apr 21, 2000
Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.
Portugal Não Está à Venda
2.5
The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale.
Comedy
Linhas de Sangue
4

Linhas de Sangue

Jul 26, 2018
Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
Action
Quero-te Tanto!
5.2

Quero-te Tanto!

Apr 18, 2019
A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.
Comedy
A Rapariga no Espelho
1

A Rapariga no Espelho

Jan 19, 2004
A place where putting red lipstick gives life and a broadcast camera takes it, reclaiming lost girls in endoscopic romances into darkness, where they evaporate, inside empty haute couture dresses.
Drama
Les Lignes de Wellington
5.75
En septembre 1810, les troupes napoléoniennes, emmenées par le Maréchal Masséna, envahissent le Portugal. Lors de la bataille de Buçaco, Masséna est défait. Pour autant, Portugais et Britanniques, sous le commandement du Général Wellington, battent en retraite. Wellington espère ainsi attirer l’ennemi à Torres Vedras, où il a fait bâtir des lignes de fortifications infranchissables. Cette stratégie, couplée à une opération de terre brûlée, plonge les populations civiles dans l’exode. Accompagnant les soldats dans leur marche, tout un peuple subit au quotidien les déchirements de la guerre et progresse à travers les villages en ruines, les forêts incendiées et les cultures dévastées. Certains réaffirment leur volonté de résister à l’envahisseur, d’autres profitent du désarroi général pour laisser libre cours à leurs bas instincts.
Drama
Les Frangines
5.5

Les Frangines

Oct 26, 2002
Après la mort de son père, le mannequin Alix Castelac découvre qu'elle doit partager le testament, et la propriété familiale, avec une demi-sœur cachée du nom de Noémie Boileau, chauffeur routier. Les deux univers opposés vont s'entrechoquer, et Noémie va finir par repartir sur les routes. Mais le fils d'Alix profite du départ et s'engouffre dans le véhicule d'un collègue à Noémie, en partance pour le Portugal. Les deux demi-sœurs vont alors partir sur les routes pour aller récupérer l'enfant à Lisbonne, au prix de quelques péripéties...
Comedy
O Lampião da Estrela
5.5

O Lampião da Estrela

May 30, 2000
When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.
Comedy
Aniversário
1

Aniversário

Oct 19, 2000
The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
Drama
Não Sou Nada
1

Não Sou Nada

Jan 25, 2023
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.
Drama
Para Sempre
6.5

Para Sempre

Jun 10, 2022
Pedro is an enigmatic man with only one goal: to get Clara back, his first and only love. However, this meeting is almost impossible. Above all, because she is engaged to his brother Lourenço, the man who Pedro will save. And what will Lourenço do when he realizes that his savior may, after all, steal everything from him?
Soap
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
Madre Paula
4.7

Madre Paula

Sep 27, 2017
The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.
Drama
l'héritière
3.9

l'héritière

Mar 31, 2018
L'histoire d'une fille créée par la communauté gitane mais qui est en réalité l'héritière d'un grand empire. La femme qui l'a volée dans le passé voit maintenant son avenir menacé. Le retour de l'héritière déclenche des luttes de pouvoir et d'affection et un amour pour résister à tout.
Drama
Cacau
5.5

Cacau

Nov 30, 2024
Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.
Soap
White Lines
6.7

White Lines

May 15, 2020
Quand le corps d’un légendaire DJ de Manchester est découvert 20 ans après sa mystérieuse disparition à Ibiza, sa sœur revient sur l’île espagnole pour découvrir ce qui s’est réellement passé. Son enquête la mènera dans le monde palpitant de la "dance", la forçant à affronter ses côtés sombres.
Drama
A Protegida
1

A Protegida

Mar 03, 2025
In the heart of the Alentejo countryside, Mariana and José Diogo are two children whose backgrounds could not be more different: she is the fruit of a loving relationship; he's an orphan. She has a safe haven in her family to run to when she gets hurt; he can only run to her.
Drama