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The fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary- navigandum est.
In a small hill near the village of Gerês, called Penedo da Freira, lies a tombstone that appears to mark a site of passion between a Portuguese nun and a Spaniard soldier near the end of the 18th century. The legend described in the stone becomes a target of obsession for a young director as he plunges two actors into reliving its words.
Four friends gather for dinner, but the absence of a fifth lingers in the room. While Maya longs to return to the past, the evening reveals that everything — the friends, the town, and even herself — has irrevocably changed.
1986, just 12 years after the Carnation Revolution. The Left Wing is divided, while the Right seems on track for an easy win, which will give them both a President and a Government. The only one capable of stopping this victory is a man who fought his whole life against Estado Novo. Arrested dozens of time, deported and exiled, he was one of the first to arrive in Lisbon after April 25st. That man is Mário Soares.
Based on one of the short stories from the "Decameron", "The Convent Gardener" mirrors the story of Young Gardener Masetto and presents, in two separate parts, the story of a young man and a young woman who pretend to be mute in order to get a job as a gardener in a convent inhabited by several women and several men, respectively. Because the young gardeners are mute and, therefore, assumably unable to reveal the secrets of the convent’s residents, all the women living there take action to sleep with the young man just as all the men do to sleep with the young woman.
The extraordinary and compelling story of how John Darwin faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy will be told in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. The drama relates how Anne Darwin's husband, a prison officer, came up with the hare-brained scheme to defraud insurance companies, unbeknownst to their two sons.
Jaime, an introverted young man, suffers from the humiliations his schoolmates inflict on him. The father, director of the school, distant and of absolute power, treats him with indifference. With the support of his mother, Jaime finds in a painting, a boy with a drum in front of the troops in battle, the inspiration and the example of courage that will transform him into an unlikely hero in the fight against oppression.
The Good Girls Club is a drama series that follows the capital's night, where sensuality and sex mix with politics, security, business and glamour, and which will accompany the story of 3 characters: the security guard, the owner and the new girl.
