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The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.

Anastácio 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.

After 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.

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

Zé Luís, a hard-working man of Madragoa (popular district of Lisbon), loves Clara, the daughter of his godfather, the rich merchant Santana. Santana is rich enough to impose Zé Luís to marry a girl of his low social condition, Margarida, and to terminate Luís' employment at his shop, forcing him to work even harder at the docks. Santana goes bankrupt, Margarida dies of a disease, the parents of Zé Luís return very rich from Africa, and Zé Luís can marry lovely Clara, and help his godfather out of debt.

In Coimbra, law student José Duarte and Maria de Lisboa lived a romance which ends when he goes away, achieving fame and fortune by singing. But she's pregnant and they will meet again when she's arrested by allegedly abandoning their son.

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.

When Lucas, an amateur theater director, tries to become a professional, ends up fighting with Lico, an amateur actor. Things get worse when Lico falls in love with Lena, Lucas's niece, dating her without her uncle's permission.

Lives of circus performers in times of decay.

Adriana Bento, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, falls pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Senhor Bento, kicks her our of home. What he does not know is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student. The latter becomes a lawyer and his first client is a young woman accused of having aborted after being seduced and abandoned. Which makes him think twice about his own attitude...

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.

Twenty years after her husband disappears in combat, Madalena is married again but fears the return of her first husband, as this would annul her marriage, his happiness and turn her daughter into a bastard. A classic of Portuguese cinema.

Ana Maria was a modest young woman who loves Júlio, her guitarist. But when she becomes a famous singer and Júlio, feeling abandoned by her, decides to go to the African colonies, she will have to choose between fame and true love.

Diana Delmar is a very successful magazine star in Madrid. One day, Diana receives a misleading telegram and, without telling anyone, gets on a plane to Lisbon to meet her correspondent at a hotel in Estoril.

Rosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home.

After a family disgrace Isabel needs internment in a mental residence. Her nurse will be her confident, the link to her husband and the outside world.

The 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.