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Middle-aged Maggie must find a way to get enough money for her grandson's lifesaving medical treatment and lift the dwindling hopes of her only son Tom and his wife Sarah. Desperation leads the respectable widow to work in a sex club.

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...

After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul (Romain Duris) sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father (Guy Marchand) and aimless brother Jonathan (Louis Garrel) but refuses to get out of bed. One night, Paul rises from his torpor and makes a fateful visit to the Seine.

An Anglo-Portuguese army led by General Wellington retreats to the fortified lines of Torres Vendras after a battle with Napoleon Bonaparte's army in 1810.

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

A group of people try to flee from a dictatorship government.

Sonia, seeks a better life in Europe. She gets a job in Germany but is kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery, being trafficked across countries. Her resistance leads to suffering and degradation.

The socialist mayor of Saint-Juire has set his heart on building a cultural and sports complex in the village meadow. He's a well liked by the local people and has managed to raise the loans needed for the complex thanks to his contacts.

Salvador knew Constança and Santiago. he did not know but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constança did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constance and Salvador. In a sense, each one lives in a state of mild amnesia: the inevitable 'who I am?' widens, is transfigured and echoes in a plural and disturbing 'do not know who you are?'

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

Martin Frost writes a story featuring a mysterious woman, Claire Martin, who appears in his life; their fates intertwine with the tale he writes, blurring reality and fiction in an intriguing mystery exploring the artistic process.

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect portrait of anguish. This film traces the collapse of a man littered with the diversions of sex and sin and the lost ability to tell a true original from a fake.

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.

After her husband was murdered a decade ago, Judith lives in exile in Marseille with her children. But now she is invited to a wedding in her homeland, and she decides to accept the invitation and return for a short time.

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.

Ricardo is a drag queen. After a failed attempt of suicide, he has to come back to his roots and to relearn how to live with the inspiring help of his sister and, mostly, of his nephew Vasco, who has Down syndrome.

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

"It's almost Christmas. I'd really love it if he arrives in time for Christmas with all the gifts I asked him to bring me. I hope he stays longer this time and that he doesn't get mad at my mother..."

Rodrigo comes out of his 5 year coma induced by a close range gunshot wound. Haunted by images of a woman shooting him he tries to carry on with his life with succumbing to the lure of drugs.

Joaquim left the house of his brother. The niece supplicates runs behind him. There was a crime with unclear outlines and an escape from the house where it all happened. They sleep in abandoned houses and love each other.

When João Lucas meets Maria and follows her home, he would have never guessed that she would lock him in a room without letting him out.