Cristina Carvalhal Movies

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of...

Two families affected by cyber bullying. The feelings of shame, rebellion, and guilt of the actors in the story, Vasco and Raquel, and the difficulty...

Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child,...

A middle-aged musician speaks of various themes - innocence, friendship, seduction, fascination, love, death - immediately portrayed in paintings,...

The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.

Rui Esteves is a thirty-something provincial doctor, praised for his human qualities towards the elderly and needy in a village where loneliness and...

When her husband dies, Dora Rosário, a woman trapped in the dark years of the Estado Novo, begins to live only for her daughter Lisa and for...

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I...

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.

A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and...

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and...

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most...

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the...

A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstition, and is devastated when it comes true. She...