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- DirectorAurélio da Paz dos ReisA large number of workers, mostly young women, leave by the front door of their work place at lunch time. The building has an impressive colonnaded facade, and is located at 181, Santa Catarine St., Porto - one of the city's main streets. A passengers' horse cart crosses from right to left of the screen, and a few seconds after an ox cart carrying merchandise crosses in the opposite direction. All the while, workers keep leaving the factory, giving a sense of a large work force.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsDuarte SilvaMaria das NevesAntónio ValeTo shorten the way, Bonifácio Mendes a small-minded muleteer decides to cross the Mafra cover.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsAlfredo HenriquesPato MonizDuarte Silva
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaría CamposJosé CardosoMaria de OliveiraBetween the elegant areas of Cascais and Lisbon, dangerous delinquent Barbanegra acts under the identity of the insinuating Marquis de Serpa.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsPato MonizAntónio PinheiroBrunilde JúdiceSimão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsMaría CamposMaria de OliveiraRafael MarquesAn interesting comedy (of Ads), in "unpretentious production".
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsErico BragaAurora CelesteSalvador CostaThe amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsPalmira BastosMaria Emília Castelo BrancoMaria ClementinaTraveling by car to Sintra, a mysterious lady, arriving in Lisbon by ship, is the victim of an accident.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaurice MariaudA. Castro NevesCastro NevesIn a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsAmélia Rey ColaçoRaul de CarvalhoAntónio DuarteLuísa, three years ago, Jorge's wife, who is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo, is aware of the arrival of his cousin Basilio, after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsFrancine MusseyErico BragaEmilia D'OliveiraModern version of the Cinderella story.
- DirectorRino LupoGeorge PalluStarsBrunilde JúdiceAntónio PinheiroMário SantosAna doesn't care for the pure love André devotes her, and turns her heart towards a noble man that is just lightly interested in her. Ana will experience the agony of being abandoned, and must contemplate the reclusion of a nun's life.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsFrancine MusseyAntónio PinheiroMario PedroFrankly, the Jewish banker Carlos Gold manages to transform into his criminal instrument a certain adventurer, who had tried to steal it after losing, in a gambling house, all the money he had.
- DirectorAntónio PinheiroStarsRafael AlvesMaria ClementinaMaria OlguimThe hilarious domestic hardships of Duarte Tinoco, a married man but of free heart.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsEduardo BrazãoSarah CunhaEmilia D'OliveiraLife and loves of Severa, a popular Fado-singer.
- DirectorAntónio PinheiroStarsAntónio PinheiroThe ordeal of Maria das Dores, a young woman who, to escape the ill-treatment of her drunken father, to the misery and horror of an equivocal situation, runs away from home.
- DirectorMaurice MariaudStarsMaria de OliveiraMaria HelenaArthur DuarteThe distinctive loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct morals of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana.
- DirectorGeorge PalluStarsAlírio AiresMaria ClementinaMario Pedro
- DirectorReinaldo FerreiraStarsMaria Emília Castelo BrancoAlves da CostaAlexandre AmoresThe story of this film is based on actual facts, the murder of actress Maria Alves, and the investigation that ensued, covered by Reinaldo Ferreira himself. Ferreira also wrote a novel based on the same facts.
- DirectorRino LupoStarsRafael AlvesCarlos AzevedoBeatriz CostaAninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the multitude that goes on a pilgrimage to the village where, ten years before, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three child sheepherders.
- DirectorRino LupoStarsCarlos AzedoJulieta PalmeiroMaria Emília Castelo BrancoDuring a period of social turmoil, when the police was blocked by the civil war between conservative and liberal monarchists, a gang leader became popular, as he started distributing to the poor what he robbed from the rich.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de Barros
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsMachado CorreiaJorge Brum do CantoMaria Do CarmoA surreal short film in which a young man embarks on a journey through villages and the countryside.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAdelina AbranchesChaby PinheiroAlves da CunhaCaleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port town - Lisbon, from the old district around Saint George's Castle down to the docks and the 'Sagres' on the Tagus river, to the new commercial districts.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRosa MaríaOliveira MartinsAdelina AbranchesFalacha is the captain of a fishing boat of Nazaré who lost part of his men in a shipwreck. Among them was the husband of Aunt Aurélia, who holds Falacha responsible for this tragedy. A few years later, Maria, Falacha's daughter, falls in love with Manuel, Aurélia's son, which makes the two young people the new Romeo and Juliet. As for Falacha, he succumbs to social pressure and commits suicide...
- DirectorHenrique CostaStarsHeloisa ClaraMaria do Ceu FozAntónio PinheiroNaples, 1799. During the reign of Ferdinand IV, which consubstantiated the tyranny of the Bourbons and the British, the Portuguese Leonor da Fonseca Pimentel (1752-1799) became suspect to the henchmen of the Junta de Estado.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsDina TeresaAntónio Luis LopesAntonio LavradioThe (too brief) life, the (ardent) loves and the (too early) death of Maria Severa Onofirana (1820-1846), better known as "A Severa", a beautiful gypsy who, besides being a prostitute, sang in the taverns of the Mouraria area in Lisbon, and is said to have created the "Fado" style.
- DirectorJosé Cottinelli TelmoStarsVasco SantanaBeatriz CostaAntónio SilvaAfter flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroMax NosseckStarsNita BrandaoOlly GebauerMariana AlvesA love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsJoaquim AlmadaMaria MatosAntónio SilvaAdaptation of a novel by Júlio Dinis, depicting the romantic and rustic life in Portugal, circa 1863.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsRaul de CarvalhoTarquinio VieiraMaria Helena MatosBocage is a former navy officer, a cultured gentleman, a passionate man, and a poet. He lived in the second half of the 18th century, and he goes through a number of relationships, writing love poems to his Three Graces: his colleague Márcia - a wild girl - and her two sisters, Anália, who loves God more than men, and Canária, a sensual Brazilean 'canary' who lives to love...
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsNascimento FernandesBeatriz CostaProcópio FerreiraJosé Maria, whom they always confuse with someone, ends up convincing himself that he is like everyone else, enjoying the pleasure of getting settled in the lives of others.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsMaria ClaraEmilia D'OliveiraAlexandre de AzevedoA man with communist beliefs falls in love with a woman with salazarian beliefs. The most well known portuguese fascist propaganda feature.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsMirita CasimiroAntónio SilvaEduardo FernandesA humble country girl moves to the city to work as a maid, eventually finding love and adventure.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsElsa RuminaBarreto PoeiraÓscar de LemosIn Porto Santo, a small island next to Madeira the drought rages and Gonçalves, a local farmer, tries to overcome the catastrophe, with the help of Bastiana, whom he dearly loves. João Venâncio, who refuses to share the water of his field, tries to steal her heart. One day Gonçalves decides to fight for his beloved, beating violently Venâncio in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsMaria LalandeElsa RuminaOliveira MartinsThe ill-conceived loves of Rosa, a modest seamstress, and Fernando a doctor, leaving in the shadow the fateful passion of António (a liberal) for the young woman.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsSilvestre AlegrimHenrique CamposTeresa CasalThe amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, simultaneously, the warm connection of the other son of D. Luís, Maurício, with the devoted cousin Gabriela.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsOliveira MartinsMadalena SottoNoé de AlmeidaMadalena and Eduardo are in love, but their future is at risk when he accepts to follow a competitive cycling career, and she rejects to be a stage actress. He will be acclaimed during the Portugal Tour, and she becomes jealous, knowing that he is having an affair with Dina, a stage actress in Lisbon. Madalena braves to leave her peaceful town of Alcobaça, accepts a humble position as chorus girl in the same theatre where Dina works. Soon Madalena ascends is more popular than herrival Dina. She is not happy yet.
- DirectorChianca de GarciaStarsBeatriz CostaManuel Santos CarvalhoJosé AmaroThe story of how Gracinda, a young washerwoman, tries to revitalize her decadent business with the help of Chico, for whom she's in love, and her uncle, who has a fiery rivalry with Quitéria, owner of another laundry business.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsLuís de CamposIsabel TovarAlves da CunhaLuís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, he will find true love, and also learn to value his country and its colonial grandeur.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsÓscar de LemosMaria DomingasAntónio SilvaJoão Ratão is a Portuguese soldier in the Flandres battle-front,
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsVasco SantanaFrancisco RibeiroLeonor MaiaFrancisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
- DirectorFrancisco RibeiroStarsMaria das NevesVasco SantanaAntónio SilvaThis classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsIlidio Rocha SilvestreElsa Bea-FlorJoão MoçoIn a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Unfortunately they belong to two different fisher castes and the community as well as their respective families condemn their love...
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsNascimento FernandesVital dos SantosAntónio PalmaThe story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsBarreto PoeiraGraça MariaOliveira MartinsHaving abandoned his family, due to religious incompatibility, Dr. Silveira had settled in Coimbra, where he dedicated himself to the sick, avoiding reconciliation, despite the intervention of Dr. Meneses.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMaria MatosMilúThe unlikely love between Luisinha, a humble girl who lives on a small pension in Lisbon, and Daniel, a wealthy aristocrat who decides to fight for the girl who loves against the prejudices of his family.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsIgrejas CaeiroEunice ColbertEmilia D'OliveiraThe fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAntonio VilarAlicia PalaciosMaría Dolores PraderaDom Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, is married to a Castilian princess but falls in love for his wife's maid. In addition to sin and scandal, can they survive the political implications of their romance?
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsMaria MatosAntónio SilvaMaria EugéniaGeninha and Fortunato are couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them.
- DirectorBárbara VirgíniaStarsBárbara VirgíniaJoão PerryAlfredo RuasBefore assuming her post in an isolated village, a teacher must leave for three days with the town priest to confront the violent lord of the hill.
- DirectorArmando de MirandaStarsVirgilio TeixeiraAdelina CamposJuvenal de AraújoThe legendary life of José Teixeira da Silva, José do Telhado, married to his cousin Aninhas, defeated his father's resistance, due to the fame of his heroism during the civil war.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsSilvestre AlegrimCarlos AlvesEmilia D'OliveiraThe story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher.
- DirectorSantos MendesStarsÓscar de LemosErico BragaBarroso Lopes
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsAntonio VilarJosé AmaroIgrejas CaeiroThe adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsBarreto PoeiraEunice MuñozLinda MariaAfter the brother's death by a bull, the "Bezoiro", Manuel refuses to succeed him as mayoral, the very day he marries Maria Loba.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsMaria da GraçaLeonor MaiaBrunilde JúdiceJoão Lacerda does not like that his fiancee, Clara, sings in public.
- DirectorAlejandro PerlaStarsHortense LuzÓscar AcúrcioTeresa Gomes
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsTeresa CasalMaria EugéniaAlfredo MayoThe Duke of Gomara plays at high stakes in the casino, trying to impress his companion Estela. He loses all, and would have commited suicide, if it was not for Maria Eugénia, a beautiful girl who is there with her father - a banker. Out of jealousy, Estela tells the girl's father that the Duke is an international thief, to cover up for her lover - who is actually that. Things get pretty bad for the Duke, who is so unfortunate he has been given room 13 at the Casino's hotel.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMilúMaria EugéniaAnastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
- DirectorJoão MoreiraStarsJosé AmaroMaria DomingasEunice Colbert
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsJoão VillaretAntónio SilvaArmando FerreiraWhen a businessman's car crashes and burns, inspector Moisés of the criminal brigade is given the case, as the body has been stabbed. He'll try to reconstruct the financier's personality by the mirrored impressions on those who knew him.
- DirectorArmando de MirandaStarsAmália RodriguesAlberto RibeiroArtur AgostinhoIn Coimbra, law student José Duarte and Maria de Lisboa lived a romance which ends when he goes away, achieving fame and fortune by singing. But she's pregnant and they will meet again when she's arrested by allegedly abandoning their son.
- DirectorHenrique CamposAníbal ContreirasRafael GilStarsMaruchi FresnoAntonio VilarLuis PeñaA virtuous Spanish princess becomes Queen of Portugal, then troubled by social struggles and court intrigue. She negotiates a truce between the king's and his son's factions; and performs a miracle, by changing bread into roses, to appease the king's ire, as he had forbidden her to distribute bread to the poor peasants. After her husband's death, she enters a convent, resting her crown at the tomb of Santiago, in Compostela.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsAmália RodriguesVasco SantanaAntónio SilvaAna Maria was a modest young woman who loves Júlio, her guitarist. But when she becomes a famous singer and Júlio, feeling abandoned by her, decides to go to the African colonies, she will have to choose between fame and true love.
- DirectorCarlos PorfírioStarsEmilio CorreiaPestana de AmorimMaria ElsaPeople leaving in an isolated mountain village near the frontier are as rude as the land - and often resort to smuggling to make ends meet. Any disloyalty is to punished, not by the law, but tradition. Now, when Francisca, a wild gypsy girl, esteemed by all, pays attention to more than one man, trouble erupts.
- DirectorArmando de MirandaStarsVirgilio TeixeiraAlmeida AraujoLeonor MaiaTwo young men try to survive in Lisbon, but their talents as writers is not recognized. Their intervention to defend Dionísia from her uncle's harassment is not appreciated by him. As he is the pension's owner, the three are put in the street. The girl returns to her home village; the two friends end up winning a lottery for a life insurance. Their dilemma is who shall be sacrificed for the other to get rich, and get the girl?
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsVirgilio TeixeiraEunice MuñozVasco SantanaIt is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the arenas of bulls.
- DirectorFernando GarciaStarsÓscar AcúrcioSilva AraújoRaul de CarvalhoA thin thread of fiction, linking inserts of non-original documentary footage of Portuguese cod-fishers off the rich coasts of Newfoundland and Groenland. Heroic fights against raging seas and winds, deep fog and cold, plus a fire aboard. A man's world, where sometimes a woman in male dress does her share of work like a man...
- DirectorArmando de MirandaStarsEduardo ColomboEmilio CorreiaJuvenal de AraújoThe return of José do Telhado and his adventures to free his brother from the group of Jose Pequeno, another famous bandit of that time, and the bloody fight between both.
- DirectorArthur DuarteAlfredo EchegarayStarsNani FernándezTony LeblancTeresa CasalMiguel is a fire-brigade chief, married with a much younger woman, do Amparo. When Miguel's younger brother, João, returns from America penniless, Miguel sugests he joins the fire-brigade to help with his sustenance. People are talking on Miguel's back, suggesting there more between João and Maria then friendship. Misunderstandings and jealousy bringthe two brothers to an explosive confrontation when it least welcome: when they were jointly fighting down a blaze.
- DirectorJosé BuchsStarsManuel Dos SantosLeonor MaiaAnna PaulaManuel da Cruz, a young apprentice in the saddle, is discovered by the cattleman João Gama, who marvels at his skill, deciding to make him a great bullfighter.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsPaulo MaurícioAmália RodriguesBarreto PoeiraCastro Alves is the great poet of the black slaves' liberation, in 19th century Brazil. Eugenia Camara is the wild actress who crosses the Atlantic and finds herself torn between two loves, in a whirlwind of passion.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsAlberto RibeiroDeolinda RodriguesLuísa DurãoAlberto, singer of vocation, is opposed by his father who wants him employed in his shoe store, and by the stepmother who influences the progenitor, in favor of his own son, Luis.
- DirectorAntónio Lopes RibeiroStarsMaria SampaioMaría DulceRaul de CarvalhoTwenty years after her husband disappears in combat, Madalena is married again but fears the return of her first husband, as this would annul her marriage, his happiness and turn her daughter into a bastard. A classic of Portuguese cinema.
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsAntónio SilvaMilúFrancisco RibeiroWhen Mr. Elias discovers that his aunt, who lives in Brazil, comes to visit him, he decides to temporarily occupy the house of a wealthy neighbor who's away so that she doesn't discover that he's not as rich as he told her.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsAntónio SilvaLaura AlvesEmilio CorreiaThe Silva family aspires to have a home. The inheritance of an aunt, who died in Argentina, comes to realize this desire, but raises new problems.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsMaria OlguimHelga LinéArtur SemedoLives of circus performers in times of decay.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsVirgilio TeixeiraHelga LinéArtur SemedoThe sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. The film tells the story of António and his family, where no dreams are allowed. There is also the mourning of the woman in black wailing silently on the beach or waiting for their children lost in the sea.
- DirectorArmando Vieira PintoStarsSilva AraújoManoela ArriegasAlves da CostaA man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter the navy. A girl accepts to show a fake love interest in him as part of the plan, and ends up really enamoured.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsMilúAntónio SilvaEugénio SalvadorWhen Lucas, an amateur theater director, tries to become a professional, ends up fighting with Lico, an amateur actor. Things get worse when Lico falls in love with Lena, Lucas's niece, dating her without her uncle's permission.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsDeolinda RodriguesErcilia CostaHelga LinéZé Luís, a hard-working man of Madragoa (popular district of Lisbon), loves Clara, the daughter of his godfather, the rich merchant Santana. Santana is rich enough to impose Zé Luís to marry a girl of his low social condition, Margarida, and to terminate Luís' employment at his shop, forcing him to work even harder at the docks. Santana goes bankrupt, Margarida dies of a disease, the parents of Zé Luís return very rich from Africa, and Zé Luís can marry lovely Clara, and help his godfather out of debt.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsMariana VillarArtur SemedoManuel Santos CarvalhoAdriana Bento, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, falls pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Senhor Bento, kicks her our of home. What he does not know is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student. The latter becomes a lawyer and his first client is a young woman accused of having aborted after being seduced and abandoned. Which makes him think twice about his own attitude...
- DirectorArthur DuarteStarsTeresa CasalCarmen DoloresRogério PauloManuel is a bank clerk, melancholic and atheist, torn between two Ana Maria, a quiet, religious girl, and Albertina, a fiery, daring art-model. His bank opens a branch in Africa, and he works there a couple of years. When he comes back, both girlfriends are married. Manuel falls prey to economic problems and faces moral dilemas, eventually finding a priesthood vocation.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsAlberto RibeiroMariana VillarAlves da CunhaRosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home.
- DirectorPerdigão QueirogaStarsIlda AndradeEmilio CorreiaGrece do CéuA young priest from the North, finds himself isolated in the hot prairies of the South. He resists temptation in the form of the daugh
- DirectorConstantino EstevesStarsAntónio SilvaCremilda de OliveiraManuel Santos CarvalhoRidiculous prejudices of the urban middle bourgeoisie at the end of the 19th century, through the reveries of the Counselor Faustino who, dominated by his wife Maria, gets revenge by having affairs with the maids.
- DirectorJorge Brum do CantoStarsArtur SemedoLourdes NorbertoMaria Emília VilasFrom the military planning to front-line operations of discover conquest of Mozambique by the Portuguese, to counter the Vatuas insurgency of 1894, when they were led by Gungunhana, a cunning strong African leader. Against the background of Marracuene, Coolela, Manjacaze, Chaimite and Macontene historical battles, two soldiers fight for the love of a coloni st's daughter.
- DirectorHenrique CamposStarsMariana VillarCurado RibeiroAlves da CostaPassion and ambition interplay to bring dissention and tragedy into the home of an old fisherman married to a much younger woman.
- DirectorFernando GarciaJosé César de SáStarsMilúAlzirinha CamargoMaria CristinaFilming of the magazine "Agora É Que São Elas", performed only by women, taken to the scene at Teatro Avenida.
- DirectorJoão MendesStarsVasco SantanaLaura AlvesCostinhaWhen Amadeu discovers that his uncle, Mr. Costa, is returning from the Portuguese colonies in Africa, he panics. He wasted all the money he gave him so he will try to create an illusion for his uncle not to realize that he's broke.
- DirectorManuel GuimarãesStarsMilúEugénio SalvadorMadalena SottoMeia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doesn't care for Ana or for the child they had together. He lives with the beautiful Marlene who dances in the bars. Gull spends her whole days lulling a doll in her arms, and she waits for her love that will rise from the depths of the sea. The deaf musician Sparrow watches over her, in his despaired love and long-held wish of becoming a sea captain. There is a dispute down the piers, there is a crime that might be just an accident, there is a bad conscience that turns sour, there is a boat full of poor wretches like a rocking lullaby, a baby that passes from arms to arms, a clumsy beggar that finds some work, a courthouse of tramps... From this expressionist account that has unexpected comical moments, the censors from Salazar's regime cut away 20 minutes that were never to be found again.
- DirectorArtur SemedoStarsVasco SantanaAntónio SilvaIsabel de CastroManuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his carefree ways, and commits a robbery. Manuel knows the robber is Pedro, but he learned it in Catholic confession. To keep his vows as a priest, he is prepared to be arrested.