Movies: Tomás Alves

Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984....

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive....

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pre...

On one side, a bunch of crooks. On the other, two sisters. Nothing unites them except an idea: to relieve the bank account of an old man, who happens to be the sisters' father. The crooks devise a plan to gain his trust and swindle him. The sisters m...

On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. Th...

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup....

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children...

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives....

What if, at the end of World War II, an economic crisis had spread to every nation, including those that had not directly taken part in hostilities?...

A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life...

1907. The Porto Chamber has just been won by the Republicans, in full monarchy, three years away from the revolution. Republican ideas are taking hold and monarchical institutions are beginning to be shaken. However, the Sociedade Gastronómica de Lis...

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and ...

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David is a freelancer living with his girlfriend and their sick son. Problems arise when they don’t have money for his medication....

Marta comes home after her mother's funeral. Having devoted the last years of his life to take care of her, it's time to learn how to live with that void. For the first time she will think about the future, but an unexpected visit will force her to t...

Three teenagers, a young couple and a middle-aged man meet on a night that will dramatically mark their lives....