Acting
Across several generations, groups of young Portuguese people navigate school life and summer holidays while dealing with friendships, first loves, rivalries, family conflicts and decisions that shape their future. Each season introduces new protagonists, schools and challenges, exploring themes related to adolescence, identity, responsibility and belonging. Sport, music, dance and other forms of expression accompany their journeys of growing up, marked by dreams, choices and ever-changing relationships.
Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.
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An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.
Stories that make us reflect on how we live and on what is the value we give to life. It reinforces the importance of living in the present rather than in the past, an error in which Artur and Carolina fall as soon as they wake up on the same day after years of absence.
The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.
A Spanish diplomat falls from the top of the Aqueduct. The police investigate with the help of a Spanish inspector. It quickly becomes clear that there is a serial killer in Lisbon, inspired by the legendary "Aqueduct Killer" of the 19th century: Diego Alves. When the police seem close to solving the case, a twist reveals that the psychopath is still at large, this time driven by personal revenge.
The pilgramage of 11 women in 9 days and 400km to Fátima.
Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.
Portugal, 90s. The famous architect Tomé Serpa lives between professional success and a secret life of sexual relations filmed without the consent of the participants. Married and a father, he maintains a relationship with Carolina, an actress that believes to be his only lover. When she discovers the truth, she allies herself with Elsa to take revenge before the inauguration of his major project.
Olívia, Marta, and Carlota are three friends leading normal lives, until a moment of panic changes everything: an unexpected confrontation with Jaime, Olívia’s ex-boyfriend, ends tragically when he dies accidentally. Consumed by the fear of losing their freedom during the best years of their lives, the three make a radical decision - to hide the body and conceal what happened that night.
During an eclipse in 1984, an iconic gang of armed robbers is dismantled after robbery of the Banco de Portugal. Part of the group is arrested, the other is murdered. Two members are left together. This event is the result of an anonymous call. Who denounced them? “Racing Horses” tells this gang's story, emphasizing the individual motivations that led each member to choose this way of life. As a backdrop, the bathing area of a Portugal about to enter the European Economic Community.
