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- DirectorJosé Cottinelli TelmoStarsVasco SantanaBeatriz CostaAntónio SilvaAfter flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMaria MatosMilúThe unlikely love between Luisinha, a humble girl who lives on a small pension in Lisbon, and Daniel, a wealthy aristocrat who decides to fight for the girl who loves against the prejudices of his family.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMilúMaria EugéniaAnastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsAntónio SilvaLaura AlvesEmilio CorreiaThe Silva family aspires to have a home. The inheritance of an aunt, who died in Argentina, comes to realize this desire, but raises new problems.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsBeatriz CostaManuel Santos CarvalhoJosé AmaroThe story of how Gracinda, a young washerwoman, tries to revitalize her decadent business with the help of Chico, for whom she's in love, and her uncle, who has a fiery rivalry with Quitéria, owner of another laundry business.
- DirectorFrancisco RibeiroStarsMaria das NevesVasco SantanaAntónio SilvaThis classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsMaria MatosAntónio SilvaMaria EugéniaGeninha and Fortunato are couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMilúFrancisco RibeiroWhen Mr. Elias discovers that his aunt, who lives in Brazil, comes to visit him, he decides to temporarily occupy the house of a wealthy neighbor who's away so that she doesn't discover that he's not as rich as he told her.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsVasco SantanaFrancisco RibeiroLeonor MaiaFrancisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
- DirectorJosé Fonseca e CostaStarsMário ViegasLia GamaLuís LelloKilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the police is too busy to care. A mysterious Major - eventually from the secret police - approaches Kilas in order that his gang will set up a discreet vigilance on the house of a notorious anti-fascist person. Kilas is only happy to oblige, as he is being paid for the guys' work - until the contract is upped to place a bomb in the house. Now, that's too much even for a low pimp like Kilas! But - meanwhile he has a love dispute to settle with that house's owner; and that is a real psychological conflict that Kilas would wish not to have...
- DirectorJoão LeitãoStarsGonçalo WaddingtonDavid Chan CordeiroJosé PintoFollows Portugal's first fascist superhero: the ultra patriotic Captain Falcon!
- DirectorRuben AlvesStarsRita BlancoJoaquim de AlmeidaRoland GiraudFor thirty years now Maria and José Ribeiro have been living on the ground floor of a Haussmannian building in one of the most exclusive districts of Paris. Everybody loves this nice couple of Portuguese immigrants, Mario for being a topnotch caretaker, José, a construction site supervisor by trade, for helping to do all kinds of jobs in the house. So, the day Maria and José announce their wish to return to Portugal, everybody is crushed. No, they just can't let them do a thing like that...!
- DirectorGonçalo Galvão TelesJorge Paixão da CostaStarsJoão ArraisMiguel BorgesRaimundo CosmeA Portuguese soldier who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle struggles alone through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee his companions' safety.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraDiogo DóriaMiguel GuilhermeEpisodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
- DirectorJoão MaiaStarsSérgio PraiaFilipe DuarteVictoria GuerraA biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
- DirectorMarco MartinsStarsNuno LopesMariana NunesDavid SemedoAn unemployed boxer turned collection agency employee deals with the deplorable methods they have to use when collecting bad debts.
- DirectorAntónio FerreiraStarsJoana de VeronaMiguel BorgesNuno NolascoInspired by the true story of the Portuguese King Dom Pedro who unearthed his beloved (Ines) to crown her queen after her death, this film recounts this unparalleled passion story over three eras.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsMichael LonsdaleClaudia CardinaleJeanne MoreauSet in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
- DirectorEdgar PêraStarsLúcia SigalhoManuel João VieiraNuno Melo
- DirectorRino LupoStarsJoaquim AlmadaFrancisco AmoresJoaquim AvelarAfter serving a sentence for crime of passion, a seafarer arrives at Serra da Cabreira, becoming an element of fascination and disaggregation of the archaic village.
- DirectorRita NunesStarsJoana RibeiroAmérico SilvaMiguel NunesLuísa, actress, and António, an older writer and journalist, cross paths on Twitter. He is on the social network anonymously, under the name Rasputine. They begin to exchange messages and develop an obsession with each other.
- DirectorMário BarrosoStarsMaria de MedeirosMarcello UrgegheJoão Pedro MamedeIn 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural, and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a chauffeur 26 years her junior.
- DirectorCarlos SabogaStarsJoana RibeiroPaulo PiresJudith DavisTwo French refugees are arrested during the Portuguese fascist regime, a police inspector decides to hide them at his home, while his wife consumed by jealousy, tries to make them disappear at all costs.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsJoão César MonteiroManuela de FreitasRuy FurtadoLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsCláudia TeixeiraJoão César MonteiroManuela de FreitasJoão de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.
- DirectorRobert KramerStarsPaul McIsaacVincent GalloRuy FurtadoDoc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease's real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsIvo CanelasEnrique ArceFlora MartínezTwo amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
- CreatorHenrique Cardoso DiasRui MeloManuel PurezaStarsGabriela BarrosDiogo AmaralMarco DelgadoLove, passion, mystery, and betrayal mark the days of the Por do Sol estate. The Bourbon family from Linhaca owns the Por do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy.
- DirectorManuel PurezaStarsRui MeloGabriela BarrosDiogo AmaralThe saga of the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their most precious possession: the Necklace of São Cajó, which has been in the family for over 3,500 years and hides secrets, curses, and a legendary codfish recipe. The film goes back in time to the history of the famous family from Santarém to remember the old myth of how the most important and valuable piece of jewelry in the history of Portugal, the Necklace of São Cajó, ended up in the hands of the Bourbon de Linhaça through centuries of struggles, battles, and some unprotected sex.
- DirectorJoão Nuno PintoStarsJoão Nunes MonteiroJoão LagartoFilipe DuarteA Portugese soldier gets lost in the African jungle, in 1917
- StarsManuel João VieiraKarley AidaDuarte Barrilaro RuasThe burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his sexy dentist who is already the fiancée of a well-off executive. The adventures and misadventures of the singer in this wonderful new world are told with tongue-in-cheek and several adult situations.
- StarsJoão D'ÁvilaPaulo MatosAdriana BarralThe story of the "Count of Abranhos" For most of the story he isn't a Count at all, rather Alípio, a young man climbing the greasy pole of Portuguese politics.
- The court mandates Bruno Aleixo to have therapy sessions to treat his addiction.
- StarsRita LoureiroPaulo PascoalMaria LeiteA 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.
- DirectorBruno GasconStarsTomás AlvesRafael MoraisMichalina OlszanskaWhat if, at the end of World War II, an economic crisis had spread to every nation, including those that had not directly taken part in hostilities?