José Eduardo
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Portugal S.A.
Overview: The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Call Girl
Overview: A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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Corruption
Overview: A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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DotCom
Overview: A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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St. Louis
Overview: Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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A Teia de Gelo
Overview: The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee. In flight, turns out to have an accident during a snowstorm and, despite being in despair, eventually finding a home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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Trial
Overview: In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-10-11
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Sr. Artur
Overview: The world of Arthur suddenly was taken by assault by two strangers. Incapable to recognize the two figures presented in front of him, Arthur is trapped in his own chair. A delicate situation, where the intensity increases gradually to it's boiling point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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Eclipse em Portugal
Overview: Tó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal, the hand of a friend and Anita knows the drummer for who ends up falling in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-02-20
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A Morte de Tchaikovsky
Overview: Pyotr Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed composer of classical music who died on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg, victim of an unidentified cause. Following the process of musical creation of this mythical composer, we understand that his works do not come from where we think. It is revealed, then, that the speculation surrounding his death has a plausible cause. Suicide? Anger? Assassination? How did this immortal composer die?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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Tentação
Overview: Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the "black sheep" of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-12-26
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In the Shadow of the Vultures
Overview: Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-23
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The Fascination
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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The Curse of Marialva
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-11-14
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Lost in Fuseta
Overview: Due to his developmental disorder, the autistic inspector Leander Lost has a photographic memory and a feeling for whether his counterpart is lying. For this, he has trouble understanding irony and understanding social and emotional connections. As part of a European exchange program, Lost is transferred to the small fishing town of Fuseta, where he is supposed to help solve the murder of a private detective.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-09-10
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Terra Nova, Mar Velho
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Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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The Emissaries of Khalom
Overview: End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present and the 19th century, and back - getting in love with four different persons.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-03-10
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Desmundo
Overview: The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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A Ilha dos Cães
Overview: Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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O Dez
Overview: A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Fatal Sin
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Overview: Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-01-27
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April Captains
Overview: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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Blood
Overview: Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-12-07
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Overview: The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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Disquiet
Overview: Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-28
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Adam and Eve
Overview: Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Ruth
Overview: This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-03
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Behind the Clouds
Overview: Nine-year-old Paulo stumbles upon a photograph of Miguel, the grandfather he never met, sets out to track him down and eventually meets him, at which point the magic begins.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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Lavado em Lágrimas
Overview: João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, João meets Ana, his teenage granddaughter, a mysterious character who is beginning to exercise an irresistible fascination for him. With the time João starts to lose the interest in the pigeon breeder and begins to take an interest in Ana and her world, which she only shares with another abandoned kid, until she realizes that her life is full of dark stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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Tiro e Queda
Overview: Eddie and Manecas are two great friends. But they are also extremely stupid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-01-17
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The Donkey-Eared Prince
Overview: In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-08-29
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Monsters Come Out At Night
Overview: What would we be able to do for love? How far could we go in an extreme situation? Is there a monster inside each one of us waiting to reveal itself? Guilherme is a young man like many others, with dreams and aspirations, until one day his grandfather’s health puts him to test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-09
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The Eyes of Asia
Overview: Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forced again to prove his faith, only this time before a Shogun, who wanted to force him to abandon his religion. Julian resists, as does Miguel Chijiwa, a fellow at the embassy to Rome, who become a martyr. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who cannot bear the torture, Julian suffers an inglorious death ... or maybe not. All the while, a woman wants to discover her past...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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Land of Storms
Overview: Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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The Hours Of Light
Overview: Maria da Luz is almost blind. She's been waiting for cataract surgery for 3 years. António, an old fisherman, takes care of her, hiding the secret of an old love. Miguel, a mysterious boy, wanders through the city, watching daily for Maria's house. Luís, the mayor, seeks to solve the problem of hundreds of people with cataracts in the Municipality. Ana, Maria's daughter visits her mother. Despite their misfortune, they seek to redeem themselves under the eyes of António and Miguel. Maria da Luz is not alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Ladrões de Tuta e Meia
Overview: João and Cristiane are a pair of swindlers who want to deceive a Colonial war veteran who won 190 million euros in the lottery. João pretends to be the lost son of the winner. But they are not the only ones with the same intentions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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Napomuceno's Will
Overview: Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Five Days, Five Nights
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-04-25
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Ao Sul
Overview: Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-04-25
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Traffic
Overview: Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Our Consul in Havana
Overview: The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-17
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The Jester
Overview: Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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Do outro lado do mundo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Solo de Violino
Overview: Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Lourdes
Overview: The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Cold Land
Overview: In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-06-22
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Xavier
Overview: Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Cavaleiros De Água Doce
Overview: After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-28
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Longwave
Overview: 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, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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The Trip
Overview: Antonio decides to break free of his mundane existence and rents a silver convertible to take his wife on a dream vacation. Everything seems perfect. Except he doesn't know the way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Porto Santo
Overview: A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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The Killers
Overview: "Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Fatima
Overview: In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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A Ilha dos Escravos
Overview: After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they even try to use the slaves of the colonies. A mysterious emissary is sent to Cape Verde to prepare an uprising. But other reasons were behind his visit to the archipelago ....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-05-08
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A Vida É Bela.?!
Overview: Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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A Son Named Erasmus
Overview: Four friends in their 40s find out a deceased old flame of theirs had a child, conceived with one of them during an Erasmus (EU student exchange program) in Portugal 20 years earlier. They embark on a journey in search of the offspring, while waiting for the DNA results to find out which one is the father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-07-01
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Bem Bom
Overview: It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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Desgosto de Morrer no Inverno
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Original Language: pt
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Diary of a New World
Overview: In 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip, the diseases and hunger aboard, his impressions of the new country, and the political struggle between the crowns of Castela and Portugal. In Brazil, he is going to fall in love with the wife of a Portuguese officer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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