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In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Remédio Santo is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 18 May 2011.
The search for love and redemption... Helena is a former secretary of António Fontes Morais’s who cunningly managed to get married to her boss, thus earning the title of a trophy wife. Together, they had two children: Tomás and Camila. Their firstborn is a playboy who has been living in the United States and Camila is a spoiled young woman who spends her days spending money and on her phone. The family enjoys a lavish lifestyle, but António doesn’t go without a driver and armed security since his brother Fausto was murdered, leaving his son Miguel under the care of his aunt and uncle. Helena’s hatred for the Rocha family has grown as much as the cousins Tomás and Miguel's love for Laura. So, without realizing, the nurse sees herself in the middle of a love triangle that will undermine the harmony between the Fontes Morais and Rocha families. Still, Verónica, who is totally in love with Tomás, and Helena will resort to any means necessary in order to get rid of Laura.
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Nanda dies after giving birth to twins, Francisco and Clara. Marta, the maternal grandmother, agrees to keep the boy, but gives the girl, who has Down syndrome, up for adoption. Helena, the doctor who delivers the baby, becomes attached to the child and secretly adopts her. Years later, Leo returns to Portugal and discovers he is a father. In an attempt to regain custody of the children, he relies on Marta's opportunistic support. But Helena is determined to fight him for Clara's guardianship. Remake of the Brazilian telenovela of the same name.
Cuba Libre tells the story of Annie Silva Pais, the daughter of the last PIDE director, Silva Pais. At the age of 30, Annie Silva Pais left her husband, family and country and left for Cuba, becoming involved in the Cuban revolution. In addition to other events, there is also a romance with Che Guevara.
Twins who have never seen each other find out they were torn apart at birth. A crime was behind the disappearance of one of them. A romance can keep them from being a family. A secret will bring them together again.
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?
The world is at war. While Portugal seems like an oasis by the Atlantic, its glamorous casinos and secret hideouts become the stage for a network of daring women spies, trading information that could turn the tide of the conflict.
The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.
Early 80’s. A group of criminal’s spreads terror across the Algarve with more than 20 bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they call "The Doctor" and a carpenter who earns the nickname of "The Cowboy". Captured and sentenced to 18 years in prison he becomes the protagonist of the bloodiest escape in Portuguese prison history.
A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.
Lisbon, 1980s, Rosa, a woman joins a group of young people disappointed at the post-Revolutionary Portugal. Part of a far-left clandestine armed organization, they share political views and a daily life that makes them grow closer. But their idealism collides head-on with a changing country and a large-scale police operation targeting them. Fleeing on a road with no return and no way forward, their existence is made up of bank robberies, bombs, friendships, prison, love and death. Trapped, their only choice is to keep on the run until they get arrested or killed.
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
