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- From the middle of an amateur boxing match to its dramatic technical knock-out, the camera follows the quick ballet of the boxers. The action is followed by a variety of spectators, some wild and vociferous, some suffering in silence form what they see; men and women, poor and rich... Then, one sees the amateurs next day, as they work in their true professions, mostly humble ones: street-sweepers, butchers... The end is the beginning: the training, and the warming up until another boxer goes up a spiral metal staircase to another match in another derelict boxing arena.
- During a revolution, the people won't wait for lengthy judicial procedures.
- Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again, and he must be by himself in the far woods. Bathing in olive oil, as suggested by an old woman, proves ineffective. Now, he becomes violent, expressing his anguish against those who expelled him from the village.
- The Seara Velha is one of the most secluded mountain villages in Trás-os-Montes, at a time when the Napoleonic troops are already being routed, and trying to pass the high mountains towards Spain. Sporadic shots in the distance testimony that there is some opposition conducted by the local men, ambushed in the hills, against the retreating Napoleonic army. The village, a mere handful of houses roughly built of granite, is deserted. Well, almost. There are the two young French soldiers who have deserted their army, and decide to vent their anger, and hunger, on the chickens and sheep without a shepherd that run about in the main street. A short widow, hidden in the church, sees the rude behaviour of the two miscreants towards the icon of Santiago, of which they break the head off. She could prevent them from desecrating the church wine, by instructing her teenage son to bury the bottles in the cemetery, aided by two younger children. Then, she shows herself at the tavern, and induces them to feel confident to the point of drinking a little too much. When they try to have their way with her, and even with her son, the good Christian feels no qualms to dispatch them with a flick-blade. When the peace returns to the village, she shows the priest where she buried the head of saint Inacio - and the French soldiers' bodies.
- Basanti is a brave working class teenage girl whose father Shankar is respected in the village for his honesty. Bhavani Shankar wants to force him to support his puppet candidate in the next election, but his brother, Basanti's father, supports another good man, Aftab Ahmad Khan. Bhavani Shankar's henchmen kill Basanti's father and Aftab Khan in front of the girl's eyes. After listening to her father's last words, the girl takes a solemn oath to rebel against all oppressors. A few years later, she becomes a good shooter and fighter, and joins the mountain outlaws. Together, they rebel and fight Bhavani Shankar, and his corrupt administration.
- Recent population growth in the capital leads to an ambitious development plan, involving public and private initiative as documented here, pinpointing over 60 locations (streets, roads, parks, schools) being modernized or built anew. The narrative and soundtrack are grandiloquent, in the propaganda style required by the Producer (the Municipal Council of Lisbon, then directly dependent of the national government), but the images and data are now of historical relevance.
- Three college graduates travel through the country in a van, recalling changes after the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, and how it affected some traditional rites and religious beliefs. Stopping at a few places, they hear and exchange views on the Koran, the ways to perfection, Wahhabism and Sufism, and see some folk rites and dances with religious meaning ingrained in the people's culture dating back to the 13th century.
- Miguel 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.
- A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only company she has is the radio, tuned to a station of popular music hits that the audience can ask for by telephone. There is a single hint that she may have breast cancer. Then, she sets the table for a large dinner - for one - including a champagne bottle. She commits suicide by pills overdose, before she utters a word.
- Hungarian director Laszlo Kovacs (László Szabó) goes to Hollywood, where his compatriot Agi (Ágnes Bánfalvy) tries to get him started on a film document about the late movie director Orson Welles. She sends him the issue #82 of American Film magazine, November 1983, with several pages marked on controversial statements of Wells and other personalities. He gets curious, meets the young woman Agi, and she suggests a number of people to interview, who had known the late film director. Like his model, he is engulfed in the world of movies, alcohol, sex, film stardom and unfinished or inconclusive movies. A docudrama told in the style of Wells himself, with interviews presented and re-enacted so that ambivalence prevails over what is true and what is fake.
- In Rome's notorious gay club, the Alibi, men date, love and quarrel. Meanwhile, on stage, the classic drama of Salomé is played but with surprising variations, In the end, a clown goes out through the city's streets saying a monologue that explains it all, while satirizing the bourgeoisie.
- After many years of imprisonment, Miguel (Ronnie Ricketts) is finally freed. On the day of his liberation, Miguel promises himself a clean and honest life to win back the family he has lost during his incarceration. However, nobody wants to take in an ex-convict, his steadfast resolution finally breaks, and to find urgent money Miguel joins his former partner Roy (Chuck Perez) in his latest venture. Miguel does not realize, however, that Roy's company actually involves a criminal activity which implicates Miguel in an abduction and ransom crime. Even worse, Roy's gang is competing against Castro's gang, so Miguel's life, and his family's, are put in constant danger.
- Michoacan, is a land of law abiding men and wild women. In the villages of El Sauce El Alto and El Sauce el Bajo, the men have left, and now the women have come to compete for political power. When it comes to settling differences between these modern amazons, methods vary from an all out brawl, visiting the justice of peace, another brawl, music, dancing, and love.
- A 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...
- In the second year of the Republic of China, Shanghai is a prosperous city, full of rich businessmen - and their respective bodyguards. One of these, Tih Wu Ching, is a murderer who later, repents and abandons his low life. Yu Chiang and Yu Chin, brother and sister of the man he killed, are after him, although they only know his nickname, rather common: Chief Wang. The brother and sister team come across different Wangs, who give them trouble and fights. Yu Chin ends up by finding and fighting the real Wang she had been looking for. The girl seriously wounds the man, who gives her the name of the man who actually killed her brother Kao Yu Wei, following the orders of their rich boss. She goes after the man - Siao, a man she had reasons to trust before. He confesses, but before he gives her the name of the man who ordered the killing, the girl is killed by a dagger thrust by an unknown.
- Modern adaptation of the classic operatic drama, with a few twists. Micaela, José's Mother, and Mörd (Death) are played by the same dancer. The action is reduced to a single act in 13 scenes. The love scenes are played to a minimum and the working women's fight is adjourned to the last scene [and cut from some DVD editions] that concentrates all the pathos announced throughout by the eerie music.
- Mary Foster is a luso-american who decides to settle in Portugal, where her father had once come from. She is genuinely interested in the development of the place when she buys a large tract of land and a farm to breed bulls, but she'll hurt people's feelings, and menaces a traditional marriage. She will find that in the Tagus' valley, not only the bulls are wild.
- The 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.
- Avram, an Hassadic hippie; Hassan, an Arab inventor; and Tex, a nonchalant Jew, with so different backgrounds and characters, share a liberal view about sexuality. In a world abiding by the strict moral derived from the Dybbuk (sacred book), the three men will go through a number of tribulations concerning marriage.
- The past and present of ladies bodybuilding.
- Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and justice. Her opponent is the State Town's Inquisitor himself, who set her father's up to escape his own crimes.
- Ignazio is a depressed businessman after he suffers heavy losses in the financial markets. His wife Helena soon finds distraction elsewhere. Germano lives a double life. Leandro, the gamekeeper of the rich and powerful, soon uses his knowledge of the masters to dominate them - and their wives.
- Terrifying story, based on a fact occurred in Buenos Aires, early 1967, and reported in "La Nación" and all the other newspapers, after the death of a woman interned at the Instituto de Detención para Mujeres (Detention Centre for Women). Doctor Vallejos, the magistrate in charge of the inquest, gets enmeshed in personal intrigue, organized corruption, lust and vice in which apparently all the penitentiary personnel and an organized gang of dangerous inmates are involved, operating withing the prison itself.
- A man, a wife, and his lover generate too much stress, and a number of stress crisis that lead to as many suicide attempts. Fortunately for him, now society is organized to deal with it through as SOS STRESS service. Only, this time, the SOS assistant lady dispatched to help him not to jump off the window, has a car that breaks down mid way. That leads to more stress for everyone. At the end of the day, it's the SOS assistant who asks for help, from the SOS Car Assistance...
- After an introduction about the history behind some of London's monuments and buildings, between the City of London and the City of Westminster, the Presenter conducts a biographical interview with a woman who allegedly has been selected, and recruited by the Illuminati society, for her extra-sensory powers.
- Tó and Pedro are cyclists from rival clubs, sponsored by small, highly competitive local companies: Famel (bicycles) and Caves (wines). Their competition extends to girls. Clara, the school teacher, ends up by marrying Tó, after he suffers a nasty accident which Pedro was involved - or that may have been Pedro's fault. 1 year later, it's again competition day when Clara gives birth to a son, and a similar head-to-head race finish...
- Over the course of a single day, from 8 AM to 8 PM, twelve film crews followed several men and women for whom Memorial Day is unavoidable. Each interview is cut with long silences, during which the suffering wrinkled faces bring back memories of the unspeakable days of youth lived in 1940, when the Netherlands were invaded by the German army, and Dutch Jews were taken away from their families and friends, to a certain death elsewhere. The document closes on the parade to the Memorial Monument, and the cameras show us again - lost in the mass of people - the handful of faces whose biographies one knows by then, thus multiplying by hundreds and thousands the force of the words and silent, hidden emotions imprinted on those human faces.
- Long underwater documentary, and sort of a scientific diary, with a group of scientists, sportsmen and journalists, filmed at the Red Sea around the Dahlak Islands, the Egyptian coast, Sudan and Eritrea, the deserted Brother and Zabargadh islands, the calm waters of Gubbet Mus Nefit Bay and the coral forest of Shawdan. Sharks, barracuda, venomous fish and deadly mantas add excitement to the sharp black and water photography.
- Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not love him, and accepts a seductive airplane pilot who proposes to her. One day, she discovers that the funny man is just a front behind which there is a serious Didier. She will try to make up and live with him - but the gap between them is already too large.
- A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
- Manuel 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.
- In the night of November 2, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini allegedly was with Pino Pelosi, then 17-year-old, in a parked car, when he was brutally beaten by five men, and then run over by a car. Thirty years later, still imprisoned as the single person condemned for being an accessory to murder, a camera visits Pelosi. Speaking straight to the camera, the man answers straight questions, sometimes with faltering voice. He accepts having had an intimate relationship with Pasolini, and being the last person who saw him alive (besides the Mafia-related Borsellino brothers, and three undisclosed men), but denies his story to the police. The camera also shows the documents (Pasolini's and Pelosi's clothing the night of the murder; crime scene still photos) kept in the criminal court's archive.
- A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
- An eccentric penniless Marquis plans a swindle on a life-insurance company: a killer will pay him now the insurance prize, will kill him in six months time, and receive the clean money then. Meanwhile, the Marquis will live his final six months of high-life. He receives the money, starts spending it in scenic Lisbon and its surroundings, and meets a beautiful girl for whom he changes his mind. Only, his plan was so perfect that there are no links between him and the killer...
- Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime happens, and the relations amongst this sad family become even worse.
- Madalena 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.
- A making-of of Pina Bausch's ballet piece "Masurca Fogo" (1998), for the EXPO 98, from the first workshop in Lisbon until the avant premiere in Wuppertal, Pina Bausch's city, all moments dated on screen. The ballet master presides behind her work desk to the creation of steps by different dancers, as varied a mix as the African, Latin American, Fado and jazz music to which they swirl, representing the spirit of that world event. Not by chance, the camera shows prominently a photo-book on the gypsies close to Pina's ashtray. The ballet's premiere was in Germany, and the documentary's premiere was at the EXPO 98 in Lisbon.
- A man who married a very rich woman wishes to help his brother-in-law who is having financial problems, so he starts a business as a women's wrestling promoter--a business that involves suffering but also has its enjoyable side. His side business begins to go well too: selling oxygen pumps to older male spectators who can't stand too much excitement without help from a breathing apparatus. To enhance the popularity of the matches, the masked vs bikini wrestler matches are announced as no time limit, best 2 of 3 falls, the loser to drop either her mask or her bikini in the center ring. With so much at stake, the crowds grow at the ticket office.
- A week in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, seen from a perspective unlike the touristic banalities.
- Simão 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.
- Mariana and Joana are drawing sheep in elementary school; the teacher chooses Mariana's as the best, and pins it to the wall; then, the pleading stare of Joana leads her to make yet another choice, and pins Joana's sheep to the wall, too. Mariana and Joana seem to emulate and spy on each other all the time, and Joana happens to see how, after class, Mariana rips Joana's drawing from the wall exhibit, but in so doing, she drops an ink bottle on the floor. Joana does not say a word, but after Mariana leaves, she takes her rival's drawing off the wall, too. Next, the teacher demands that the culprit for the ink bottle to accuse herself. Mariana doesn't - and Joana comes forward, does taking the punishment she didn't deserve. Or did she? In a child-like ambiance, the very adult themes of envy, spying and fault.
- A young man with a dysfunctional family becomes the bodyguard of his best friend, a rich, hot headed, young man who lives in excess, he will soon find himself immerse in a life of sex, crime, sleaze and deadly bets.
- A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be short-lived.
- A man is too busy to care and show his affection to his wife, and she founds solace and happiness in the arms of a younger man. The husbands sets a detective after proofs of her infidelity, but he sets up a jealous revenge plot before the detective confirms his suspicions.
- Zé 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.
- The director creates a parallel of thirty years of her life (mid-1980s to 2012) and the evolution of her country, Greece. The loss of her lover, revived in archive photographs and 8 mm movies, is the background for her despair facing contemporaneous Greece, seen by her in the streets and viewed on television broadcasts from American and Russian channels.
- While serving time in prison, an Argentinean gangster tries to unify the members of an Italian gang known as the "Mariachis" with the objective of making future robberies more fruitful then the past ones. To that end, he delegates authority to an Argentinean and a Mexican gang members who are outside for them to make the necessary contacts. By mistake, one of them contacts a musicians group instead, with unexpected results.
- This short film follows Melvin Rivers, an ex-con freshly released from prison, as he struggles to find a place to live, get a regular job, call in favors from friends, and in general, try to avoid slipping back into the criminal behavior that put him in jail.
- Vicente a simple and honest shopkeeper, who is desperate as he can't pay a letter of credit the next day. He humbly asks a few people he knows are well-off to lend him the money, and one by one they all refuse, with lame excuses. Later in the day, Vicente considers suicide: anything but dishonor. And then, one by one, people he wouldn't turn to, interrupt his dark thoughts to offer him money: his daughter's fiancé had been saving money for the marriage; his wife had a secret nest-egg... Vicente is a man reborn.
- Ray is a Rambo-like Manila cop who travels to Hong Kong on assignment. He searches for his girl friend Lina, and finds her - addicted to drugs. Heung Lan, his ex-partner, is an undercover Hong Kong cop investigating weapons smuggling. She provokes the smugglers by intercepting several shipments in Hong Kong, leading to several good, although brief fights. The drug smuggler kills Lina, and Ray swears vengeance. The head of the gang then returns to the Philippines, and with him, the action shifts back to the Philippines. The lady cop gets more than what she hoped for.