Known for Acting
The story begins in a time before the Carnation Revolution. We meet two men: one is fleeing the country, and the other helps him escape. As they run, they speak about their lives and their struggles, using music to capture each moment. Through 13 songs, we journey across the country, encountering various stories and characters, ending in the ambiguity of contemporary Portugal, 50 years later, in a reflection on the achievements and ongoing challenges.
The mother is dying, the relationship hangs by a string, the new job is at risk. Marco's only chance to avoid the tragedy is to find three unicorns before the day's end.
On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.
An involuntary road trip through the vast and mysterious landscape of a worldwide human trafficking ring.
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
Violeta is a young girl in transition from adolescence to adulthood. Suffering for years from a deep depression, she lives with her father, who spends most of his time locked in the attic of their house, in a small village. One night, Violeta has an unusually vivid dream about her father, where he says goodbye to her, whispering the cryptic word "LIRA". That morning, Violeta wakes up to the tragic news that her father was at hospital in a coma, after having jumped off a cliff. Violeta becomes obsessed with finding out what is behind her father's alleged suicide attempt, and the meaning of "LIRA". As she gets deeper and deeper into the Dream World, Violeta will find clues to what happened to her father, uncover ruthless government experiments, develop unimaginable psychic abilities, and come face to face with a mysterious and deadly dimension called the ‘Ether’.
Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?
Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.
Mrs. Hope is a charismatic octogenarian widow, living alone in a pleasant apartment in Lisbon along with her cat Baltazar, since her husband died, years ago. Mrs. Hope is not like some other older people. She likes ballroom dancing, aqua aerobics sports and from time to time visiting the neighborhood chapel to say goodbye to her old fellows who passed away letting escape some less orthodox comments that make laugh even the most serious. She had two sons, but only one is alive - Artur. He is married with Leonor and together they have a son Rodrigo, a wild teenager and the only Mrs. Hope grandson. Herminia is her best friend, but her truly fellow is Paulina, a bold Angolan woman, mother of the teenager Joyce that Mrs. Hope considers as her goddaughter.
