Rita Loureiro

In 1982, 10-year-old Vasco lives with his mom in a small town. He's obsessed with Space:1999, devours books and films, defies mom with petty rebellions. He never met his dad but watches him from afar, and learns that growing up ain't easy.

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The movie tells the story of two best friends, Florence (50) and Nina (30). Each one has an existential problem: Nina has doubts to become a mother in the current society, Florence is afraid of getting older. Both friends decide to "escape" Belgium and fly off to Portugal. They rent a campervan in Lisbon and head off direction the South along the beautiful region of Alentejo and the Costa Vicentina. A roadtrip begins, during which the two friends not only face each other, but mostly themselves.

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Eva and her sisters live humbly in Lisbon, unaware that their lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When Gaspar, a wealthy businessman based in Angola, suddenly dies, he leaves his entire fortune to the three young women, who overnight become the owners of a great fortune and an entire estate in Angola. However, not everything will be a bed of roses: they will have to confront Talu, a young Angolan engineer who was excluded from Gaspar’s inheritance in favor of Eva. And despite being in opposite sides, neither Talu nor Eva will be able to resist the strong attraction they feel for each other. Among the breathtaking landscapes of Angola and the modern business world of Portugal, the young lovers will find themselves at the center of a web of antagonistic interests, in the dispute over Gaspar’s inheritance.

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Two siblings face their problems and undergo a profound inner transformation at a time when they both rediscover themselves. Lidia struggles to cope with her newborn baby: she can’t handle the expectations, doesn’t recognize her body, and distances herself from home and her boyfriend. Her brother Lauro works in a funeral agency. Divorced with a son, he grapples with accepting his bisexuality. Though the siblings rarely saw each other, their shared challenges bring them closer on a journey of rediscovery and profound inner transformation. The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t an illusion; the tunnel is.

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Half a century of dictatorship came to an end on April 25, 1974. The main protagonists, and the unfolding of events, are duly and meticulously portrayed. But hundreds, perhaps thousands of episodes of tension and fear, courage and adrenaline, pain and loss, fury and dreams were experienced by anonymous citizens during the intense hours that changed the country.

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On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

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A collection of six distinct stories drawn from a rich and extensive body of folklore that narrates Iberian mythology. This epic series weaves a tapestry of myths and tales while tackling fantasy, horror, humor, and drama.

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Seven visions of a country, in Cassandra's voice, that reveal different concerns about the future and the contradictory forces that shape it, with diverse themes such as politics, the media, technology, sexuality, work and revolution.

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A respectable family falls into crisis when their extensive apple orchard is ruined. Delgado, a wealthy industrialist from the North, has just arrived in the village, apparently with good intentions. Desperate to keep up appearances, the Major and D. Lúcia introduce him to their innocent and eccentric daughter, Cilinha, who is only interested in her singing lessons. They entice him with the prospect of a rich dowry, but they are unaware that Delgado is not quite who he appears to be...

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Emilia is a 17 year old who just finished high school and now works at the local gas station. She has the dream of becoming a professional ballerina, but has never had the courage to leave everything and try. One day she finally gets the chance to audition for the last ballet company still standing in Portugal. She will have to decide whether she should try and risk failing miserably or carry on with her comfortable life, without purpose.

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This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings. Chico loves Tatão, who is courted by Artur. Graça loves Chico, but doesn't know he loves Tatão. Santana writes a play for the Grandelinhas that will serve as a guide to Chico passion and convince Tatão that he is a rich count. The play is then staged and they all end up in prison.

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In a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border, two skeletons are discovered that reveal evidence of a bloody crime.

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Cellist Helena is married to Mário, who criticizes her as an artist and a woman, leaving her insecure to the point of leaving the stage and becoming isolated and dependent on her husband.

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Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.

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To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.

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Conspiracy Theories

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Portugal, 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town ran by communist winds. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.

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About to turn 35 years old and in the imminence of having to give up his music, Samuel comes to Lisbon to do a concert. He stays over at Teresa's, the attractive mother of his girlfriend, a woman who resists getting old. During 3 days, accomplices and inert, they create a silent intimacy, feeling time overcome them without knowing where to go.

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Mar Salgado is a story of a woman who had 2 twins and thought they died after the were born, but it couldn't be more far from truth, and now 16 years later she'll try to find them.

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Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

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Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want to be happy. Pablo, the companion she selected from among the many who answered her questionnaire, helps her through the sleepless nights. He has no family, but wishes he had. Vera concerns herself with the mysteries surrounding Pablo's life. Vera is not afraid of the night; she is not afraid of anything.

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On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him.

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A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

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Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.

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In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

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Two solitary men embark on a journey to find a missing woman...

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During their vacation in Morocco, David suggests to Laura that they visit Vasco, an old friend of his. Laura objects, but David eventually convinces her, leading her on a journey of no return, where they will experience an insane game of jealousy and the realization of a conquest that will prove fatal.

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João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

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David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.

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After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

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