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.
Mar Salgado is a story of a woman who had 2 twins and thought they died after the were born, but it couldn't be more far from truth, and now 16 years later she'll try to find them.
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Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.
Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
This is the story of a woman who fell in love and was betrayed. Her beloved was successful at the expense of a song that stole from her, while she was forced to fight for survival, far from her homeland. It is also the story of a girl forced to mature quickly, to raise her daughter, without knowing that, after all, it was not her daughter she was raising...
The life of the Menezes family changes radically after the disappearance of Elisa, the eldest daughter of Rui and Francisca Menezes. With the tragedy, the obscure secrets of every family member, every friend, every person around Elisa, are unraveled.
Freedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.
A Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.
Urban series that takes place between the Beach of the Shells and the new School of Arts that is being born in the palace of the Barahona family. Against the background of the mythical line of Cascais, this series has a plot full of strong emotions. Each episode combines different lines of stories that cross each other: the freshness of the summer novels, the rebelliousness of youth, the adventures and peripécias lived on the beach, the fight for fame, the generational conflicts and the reunions that can happen... when least expected.
A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.
Series about one of the most iconic Portuguese bands, DOCE. Doce were one of the first "girls band" in Europe, opening the way not only in the musical world, but also breaking barriers and prejudices in traditional Portuguese society. The series is based on real events, following the band's entire journey from its appearance in 1979, until the end of the initial formation. Doce has outlasted all critics and left its mark on a generation and a country.
Filha da Lei, a criminal series on a Chief Inspector, Isabel Garcia, and the investigation of the most important police case in Portugal in the last 20 years. Garcia is faced with the greatest challenge of her career when she is assigned to lead the Investigation of the violent serial murders that devastate the city. Samuel Lopes, Trainee Inspector with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins the Garcia Brigade where he will have to earn his place and the respect of the most experienced inspectors. The interaction with the Trainee Inspector helps Garcia to better understand his daughter Sara, a 16-year-old teenager who was married to the implacable journalist Jaime.
Daniel had a plan, a sort of journal of the future, written in a notebook. Sometimes he went back to rectify small things, but still, life seemed pretty easy and happiness too. But, all of a sudden, everything changed for the worse: Portugal collapsed and Daniel lost his job. He couldn't afford to pay the mortgage for his house any more. His wife, also unemployed, left with his children, searching for better opportunities.
A young cape-verdean fighter will have to enter a dangerous boxing match to try to save his father.
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.
