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João is the spiritual heir (the term he prefers to bastard) of Manuel Brandão, his dying godfather, and at the same time the political leader of a small party of a disintegrating governmental coalition.

Theatrical drama influenced by the Portuguese medieval poem of the same name, about an island promised to Lusitanian warriors by the Goddess Venus.

A look at jealousy in its many shapes through romances, riches and murders.

In Lisbon, during the feasts of St. Anthony, the cross breeders of politicians in black shirts and transvestites all dressed in pink. An exuberant allegory of freedom against dictatorship.

Nela Calheiros, a Portuguese designer on the peak of her career, falls for the daughter of one of her seamstresses, the mysterious Mila, and throws her into the world of fashion.

A portrait of the orientalist Portuguese author Wenceslao de Moraes.

A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.

The Portuguese director Paulo Rocha pays tribute to a mentor, Manoel De Oliveira, in this hour long TV documentary portrait.

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of Portuguese culture. The camera shows from a distance, or in minute detail, the monuments or art pieces considered, or even the texts discussed by the narrators, reenacted on stage or recited by actors.