Voltar e Voltar

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous journey across the uncharted Pacific, where his fleet faces starvation, mutiny, and the psychological toll of endless seas. Upon reaching the shores of Cebu, Magellan is pulled into a fatal conflict with the natives by his drive to spread Catholicism, culminating in his tragic doom.

Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he flees into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, the free-spirited Molly-amused by his moves-follows in pursuit, embarking on a globe-trotting cat-and-mouse chase.

Álvaro and Jaime, two childhood friends in their twenties, share a particularly critical view of the functioning of society in all its dimensions. Spending much of the day as a video club clerk in order to get some financial income and get around the difficulty they feel in entering into the game of professional careers and status - a refusal that is a personal commitment for them - the two main characters they are plotting a suburb diary. While they understand the nonsense of the existence of a videoclub, at a time when the proliferation of the Internet facilitates access to the contents available there, the two main characters engage in a parallel business selling the herb, using the establishment like facade. The process passes without the knowledge of the owner of the video club, an individual at the end of middle age with a total disinterest for cinema.

In the town of Entroncamento, violence, misfortune, greed, and loyalty rule the streets. Laura arrives there to rebuild her life, but the irresistible pull of quick money and crime immediately draws her back into a troubled past. For those she meets at this crossroads, every day presents the choice between who they were and who they might become.

Manuel, an elderly deaf and mute man who had suffered a stroke, has just arrived at a nursing home and establishes a tender relationship with a nurse, rejuvenating his troubled relationship with his father.

Eva and Sónia, orphans in their twenties, with very different backgrounds from each other, are in a romantic relationship held only by a van in which they live in and travel across the country.

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.

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.

Marta is passionate about her new hobby: bird-watching. Before her big audition to become a professional dancer, she tries to gather courage to tell her mother that she doesn't want to dance anymore.

An unusual celebration combines Dinis' birthday party with his grandmother's funeral. The birthday boy is, in this embarrassing context, bombarded with inopportune questions by his family while he processes the loss of his grandmother.

Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.

In a world where men have never existed,women leave the city when it is time to give birth. Zeza and Olivia arrive at Celeste's house,a midwife and keeper of an ancient secret. Zeza's body carries, however, somethingthat should not exist: a male child. Celeste knows the signs. For generations, midwives have kept this secret within the earth, passed down through prayers and rituals known to no one else. As the birth draws near, Celeste prepares to fulfil what has been entrusted to her.

July 1956. Álvaro Cunhal arrives at Peniche Fort and is placed in the most modern and secure prison wing, considered escape-proof. Despite the tight control exercised over the prisoners, Álvaro and his comrades manage to organize a small commune and provide support to the most vulnerable detainees, while looking for a way to escape.

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence and youth will clash with the authoritarianism and inhumanity of the director. For the elderly who live in the nursing home, Vera is a breath of fresh air that little by little will change their lives, becoming the true home fairy…

And only the Man remains immune. Consumed by desperation, in an attempt to save the Woman and protect his Son, the Man goes looking for help and travels through the village where nothing is as it seems. During a surreal and hallucinating night, the Man, haunted by memories of another life, begins to lose track of reality.

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

A reserved student joins a radical organization in early 1980s Portugal and is shot and lynched following a bank robbery, while a filmmaker leaves the group to pursue guerrilla-style cinema.

A group of friends is invited to a party, where Afonso reencounters his last love. After consuming a large amount of drugs, he is confronted by an hallucinogenic trip where he confronts his fears.

An environmental activist Denver Blake has decided to expose a cosmetics corporation that he believes is exploiting the insecurities caused by societal beauty standards. However, when he falls in love with Renée, a former ballerina obsessed with constantly improving her beauty, he becomes drawn into a mesmerizing underworld of plastic surgery.

The fascination with the last inhabitant of a remote village leads young Bia down unexpected paths and reflections.

Uncertain whether his bus will arrive, a hesitant and anxious young man begins to question the point of waiting. As he stands at the bus stop, his interactions with those who arrive lead him to reflect on the passing of time and how he should face it.

A family is evicted from the home they have lived in for almost 20 years. Teenage Sara experiences the change as her parents fight during the moving process.

Burlesque history, which summons various references to cinematographic genres, much in vogue in the 50s and 60s, such as comedy, horror film, police, war film, among others. Two detectives and a special agent try to solve a difficult case, but in the end they are "swallowed" by the intrigue itself.

Four pre-teenagers investigate the kidnapping of a schoolmate until they reach a witch, Romanova, who takes another friend before disappearing. Fifteen years later, Romanova reappears and one of the survivors must rally the rest to put an end to her.