Cast: Ana Padrão

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Cláudia Teixeira · João César Monteiro · Manuela de Freitas · Raquel Ascensão

Synopsis João 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...

Direction Mário Barroso

Cast María de Medeiros · Marcello Urgeghe · João Pedro Mamede · João Arrais

Synopsis In 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 petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.

Direction Cristèle Alves Meira

Cast Lua Michel · Ana Padrão · Jacqueline Corado · Catherine Salée

Synopsis Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over...

Direction Cristina Boavida · Ricardo Espírito Santo

Cast Ana Padrão · Diogo Morgado · Maria João Abreu · Marcantonio Del Carlo

Synopsis Teresa and Miguel, of 35 and 15 years respectively, get involved. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. When she arrives, she is welcomed with some...

Direction António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast Soraia Chaves · Ivo Canelas · Nicolau Breyner · Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis Love, sex, politics and corruption meet head on in this drama from Portugal. 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....

Direction George Sluizer

Cast Federico Luppi · Icíar Bollaín · Gabino Diego · Ana Padrão

Synopsis An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When...

Direction Laure Charpentier

Cast Lou Doillon · Eduardo Noriega · Marie Kremer · Rossy de Palma

Synopsis George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover’s eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and...

Direction Carlos Saboga

Cast Anna Mouglalis · Simão Cayatte · Johan Leysen · Didier Sandre

Synopsis Her mother just died. Her father isn’t the one she thought. Elisa ends up jammed between an uncertain past and an obstructed future. Her quest for her real father leads her to a phantasmal present. Bumping into speaking dead bodies,...

Direction Ken McMullen

Cast Ana Padrão · Roshan Seth · John Lynch · Timothy Spall

Synopsis A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Direction Jorge Queiroga

Cast Diogo Morgado · Soraia Chaves · Héléna Noguerra · Ana Padrão

Synopsis 2 episodes. A look into the romantic life of Portugal's dictator António de Oliveira Salazar with the French writer Christine Garnier in the summer of 1951.

Direction Eduardo Brito

Cast Maria João Pinho · Joana Ribeiro · Sandra Faleiro · João Pedro Vaz

Synopsis The adaptation of the eponymous novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís portrays the relationship between a young writer and her aunt, vibrant characters inspired by real people, living in the northern Portuguese countryside in the mid-20th century.

Direction Mário Barroso

Cast Tomás Alves · Patrícia Franco · William Brandão · Catarina Wallenstein

Direction Fernando Vendrell

Cast Maria João Bastos · Soraia Chaves · Victória Guerra · Fernando Luís

Synopsis Based on the lives of Natália Correia, Snu Abecassis and Vera Lagoa, major players in the cultural revolution that preceded the fall of the dictatorship that ruled Portugal for more than 40 years.

Direction José Fonseca e Costa

Cast Paulo Pires · Sinde Filipe · Vítor Norte · Mário Moutinho

Synopsis In the 1940s André escapes from prison and is forced to leave the country illegally. In Oporto some friends arrange him a man, Lambaça, who knows the border of Tras-os-Montes (village in the north of Portugal) with Spain, thanks to...

Direction Bruno de Almeida

Cast Michael Imperioli · Ana Padrão · David Proval · John Ventimiglia

Synopsis A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be.

Direction Rita Nunes

Cast Joana Ribeiro · Américo Silva · Ana Padrão · Miguel Nunes

Synopsis Luísa, 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.

Direction Bruno de Almeida

Cast John Frey · Ana Padrão · Marcello Urgeghe · Eduardo Brito

Synopsis An American writer visits the old Portuguese town of Guimarães for a lecture on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. What would seem like a nice little trip goes terrible wrong when his own paranoia takes over the events that...

Direction Carlos Saboga

Cast Joana Ribeiro · Paulo Pires · Judith Davis · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Synopsis Year 1942, Portugal. In a country ruled by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, two French refugees, Boris and Laura, are arrested. Inspector Vargas is instantly attracted to the young woman and decides to hide both refugees in his house, an...

Direction António Borges Correia · Carlos Dante · António Martinho · Jorge Humberto

Cast Vera Kolodzig · Diogo Amaral · Sofia Nicholson · António Capelo

Direction Patrícia Sequeira

Cast Ana Nave · Ana Padrão · Fátima Belo · Maria João Luís

Synopsis Following Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. The night becomes a long, mazelike journey through their interconnecting friendships, ultimately leading to deep self-revelations...