Luís Esparteiro

Ana Isabel is an ambitious and opportunistic young woman who has always lived beyond her means. On the day her partner, Zé Tó, is arrested,...

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the...

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on...

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her,...

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from...

Lara is a irresistible beautiful bar-woman who seduces men, takes them into her bed and kills them - that's her way of getting pleasure. One day...

Teresa finds out in Africa that her husband, Xavier, was lost in child prostitution. She flees to South Africa where she meets the maid's daughter,...

In a small Portuguese village in the late 1960s, a young priest sides with the population in their struggle for better living and working conditions....

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and...

Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and...

Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find...

A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father...

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

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...

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...

In a time preceding the Carnation Revolution, we meet two men: one young, one old. One is fleeing the country, and the other helps him escape through...