Teresa Faria

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms.  (more)

Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, ...  (more)

It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, ...  (more)

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.  (more)

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.  (more)

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical ...  (more)

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty ...  (more)

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.  (more)

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.  (more)

Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.  (more)

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be  (more)

Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do ...  (more)

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.  (more)

Luís hates Christmas. In the hospital where she is a doctor, she always offers herself to work for 24 hours in the emergency room on the 24th and 25th of December. When everything gets ready to be another bitter and solitary Christmas, a homeless is taken to the ...  (more)

Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to get what she wants, she persuades her lover to murder her ex-husband for the life insurance money that will otherwise ...  (more)

In a village of the portuguese interior, David, a landfill worker in his thirties, has a hard decision to make: move in with his girlfriend to the capital, fighting for their increasingly weakened relation, or go on living with his mother, that couldn't handle the ...  (more)

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.  (more)

Ricardo is a transvestite. After a failed attempt of suicide, he has to come back to his roots and to relearn how to live with the inspiring help of his sister and, mostly, of his nephew Vasco, who has Down syndrome.  (more)

The story of a little girl who went to live with her uncles after seeing her mother being murdered by her boyfriend  (more)