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Hakim, 35, a friendly neighborhood cop, must infiltrate the Portuguese community for the purpose of an investigation. But can one become Portuguese in three days? Especially when we know that Hakim is a walking disaster at undercover operations. His clumsiness and bad luck turn his many infiltrations into cataclysms. The case is clearly too big for him. Quickly trapped between his feelings and his mission, Hakim, who lives alone with his mother, will discover a community, but also a family.

This program looks at the people, history, culture and geography of: Portugal.

The film takes place in a present-day small Hungarian village in the middle of nowhere. Strangers hardly ever come to this place, everything outside of it seems to be in another world for the inhabitants. But one day everything changes, when a stranger from Budapest enters the pub. He is on his way to a vacation in Portugal and wants to spend some days in this village. He soon starts a love affair with the pub owner's daughter. The ex-policeman of the village doesn't like this at all...

Karina and Martin are in a pleasent relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviours can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it’s this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question – is everything to be expected in life? This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost.

Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.

Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives in Lisbon and writes inviting him to go to Portugal.

Documentary on the Portugese Carnation Revolution and the following processes of self-organisation in military, factories, argicultural cooperatives and municipalities.

Jonatan, aka MC Xerelete, dreams of becoming a famous funk singer and so providing the comfortable life that he sees in the media for himself and his father. Till then, both of them work as fishermen at the Guanabara Bay. Together, they face the responsibilities and obstacles that life throws at them.

Picture a land of boulder-strewn shorelines, isolated mountaintops, and golden prairies. Here, packs of wolves stalk herds of ancient mustangs and tree-climbing carnivores keep entire forests on edge. Meanwhile, high above the crashing surf, a pair of storks attempts to raise a family on a narrow ledge atop a towering cliff. EUROPE'S WILD WEST is a place where survival is reserved for those with the keenest senses... and the quickest draw.

Documentation of different types, costumes and habits from Portugal.

Richard and Amira have long been friends. Together with their partners Livia and Martin and their children, they spend every summer holiday in the Algarve. But this time everything is different: Amira can’t get away because of her job – and Livia finds out that her husband Richard has a lover. Holiday together? Impossible! On the other hand: why should they all go without? So Livia und Martin head South with the kids. There they find out that they don’t really know each other and aren’t even really friends. Or are they in fact more than that?

When a celebrity chef walks off his show, prep cook Anna must step into the spotlight and make the show her own, with the help of her Aussie cameraman and Portuguese location scout.

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's interests. Pedro, cruelly hurt, pursues the single-minded purpose of avenging his lost love. He captures and kills the executioners, and compels the nobility to acknowledge Ines as his lawful wife and Queen of Portugal.

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interrogation, without any explanations. All this occurs because the authorities suspect that something illegal should be behind her trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.

Beautiful Jocelyn Lane goes sightseeing in Portugal accompanied by bandleader George Melachrino and his orchestra. Featuring Portugal's top singing star Amália Rodrigues and the world-famous Tagide Club Dancers of Lisbon.

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Little Portugal is located in the downtown west of Toronto and covers a solid community with social, cultural, commercial and religious institutions. In the 15th century Portugal was the main European country “discovering” the world by sea but it failed to colonize Canada. The first wave of Portuguese immigrants arriving to Canada occurred in the 1950’s, throughout the 60’s and 70’s the number increased. In 2001 more than 350,000 Portuguese lived in Canada and more than 95,000 in the city of Toronto. Portuguese immigrants shaped one of the most visible ethnic neighborhoods in Toronto, including people from Portugal mainland, the islands Azores and Madeira, and from former colonies Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. In 2014 the reason for Portuguese to emigrate remains the same: low standards of living and limited socio-economic opportunities.

Tó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal, the hand of a friend and Anita knows the drummer for who ends up falling in love.

Launch of a competition, organized by the newspaper O Século, entitled Statues of Portugal.

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realizes he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his work and shares his reflection on some aspects of his personal life.

A box with a 1992 VHS and some film slides from a friends trip to Sri Lanka.

Two married people fall in love and everything else breaks apart. A infidelities story told in a female voice.

All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations.

In Coimbra, law student José Duarte and the beautiful Maria de Lisboa experience an intense love story, but after finishing his studies and feeling betrayed, José Duarte abandons Maria and goes to Porto, seeking success as a singer of Coimbra fado. But, unknowingly, he leaves her pregnant with a child.

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

A band lets the pressure of their first concert get the best of them.

Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the elderly in an unstable world, seen through the eyes of their grandchildren.

Khalid, entrusted with the task of eliminating former soldier turned rogue Kabir, engages in an epic battle with his mentor who taught him everything.

Sanã is a 7 minute short film made by Lourenço Baptista and Miguel Teixeira.

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.

A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to drive a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.

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In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.

Brazilian Band - MTV Live in Ouro Preto is the sixth album and first live work of Brazilian pop rock group Skank, released in 2001. Recorded in Tiradentes Square in the historic city of Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais), on 7 and 8 July 2001, the show has its repertoire consists primarily of songs included in voting by fans through the band's website. Besides the songs voted as Pacato Citizen Response, See You, It's A Football Match and Alms, the album features two new compositions: "En Tus estare Trapped Fingers" (Spanish version for "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police, recorded for an album tribute to the band) and "Under the Sun" (included on the trail of the novel the Daughters of Mother, Rede Globo). A song Maquinarama disc, "Ali", was not played on the show, but was included on the disc. The only special interest is Chico Amaral, the band's usual partner, who plays guitar on the song "Answer".

Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.

Jockey Club. Rio de Janeiro, August 7th. Hats circulate through the halls of the Brazilian Grand Prix.

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke.

Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.

When talented young singer, Roxie Santos, meets music producer, Eddie Marz, he promises her an amazing new lifestyle and a future record deal. All he needs her to do is first lend her voice to a celebrity with no singing talent. However, when things go too far and it looks like she might lose her “voice” forever, she sets off to prove the truth.

What do you do when you're a radio station D.J. without any listeners? If you're KRZY, the craziest radio station around, you stage the wildest, most outrageous contest ever - with a $10,000 cash prize! And when the toughest competitors are three of the most titillating ladies in town, you don't even have to win, as long as you score!

Three cousins (primos) separated as young boys during the civil war in El Salvador, journey to Las Vegas due to their grandfather's failing health. Now the reunited cousins must overcome a love triangle, a lethal gambling debt and familial revenge. Powered by a diverse cast including Henry Darrow (High Chaparral, Zorro), Eloy Mendez (Bread and Roses), Andrea Grano (Planet of the Apes, 24), and Ilia Volok (U-Turn, Air Force One, Alias). Shot on location in El Salvador and Las Vegas, Primo is a daring and emotional Latino family saga!

On a snowy and cold Christmas Eve, Santa Claus accidentally steals the family Dog. So begins an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas as the family ventures to the North Pole to get their beloved canine back.

We all remember the time we first fell in love. Adolescence is an important time in our lives, especially when it comes to our first love. Bruce challenges the local villain in order to win over the heart of Louisiana, but ends up discovering, sometimes winning is losing. It's a story about love, ninjas and the beauty of children's imagination.

Created by Ricardo Ghiorzi ("The Curse of Sanguanel", "Beyond the Grave"), HISTÓRIAS ESTRANHAS (Stranger Tales) is a suspense/horror/fantasy collection of eight segments produced by independent film companies and directed by the most promising filmmakers of the Brazilian fantastic genre today.

Brazil, 1981. Rodolfo sees his private and social life clashing when young Alberto is employed at the office of his little town.

Tarot, Chaos Magick and the universal archetypes of the Collective Unconscious act over the troubled stage set inside of a playwright's mind struggling with his Love relationship. The consequences will reach the physical world.

A photographer, Isaac, is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.

Documentary about the not-likely-legendary Portuguese art group from the 1980's.

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace.

A ten year-old boy faces up to the struggles of life in a summer camp. It’s not easy to be ignored by the girl of his heart or seeing his dormitory vandalised by adolescent thugs. Fortunately, in the forest, the wild haggis insists on remaining out of sight.

What is the influence of Jazz on Brazilian music and the influence of Brazilian music on Jazz? The documentary Zuza Homem de Jazz draws a parallel between the two universes, featuring the renowned Brazilian musicologist Zuza Homem de Mello as the protagonist. It offers an intimate look at the writer and music journalist and highlights his long connection with Jazz, that dates back to the 1950’s, when Zuza was a student at the Julliard School of Music. The film was also shot in New York, where Zuza meets old friends in the jazz circuit and revisits memorable stories.

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Everyone knows that being a teenager is not easy, especially when you are a demigod with unlimited powers and risking being crucified at any moment, this is the life of Jesus Christ in his new school.

Jesus, who's hitting the big 3-0, brings a surprise guest to meet the family. A Christmas special so wrong it must be from comedians Porta dos Fundos.

In this biblical "Hangover" spoof, the apostles awaken to find Jesus is missing and must piece together events of the previous night's wild Last Supper.

twenty one pilots perform brand new reimagined, versions of catalog favorites Stressed Out, Tear In My Heart, House of Gold/Lane Boy, Shy Away, Ride/Nico and the Niners, Car Radio/Heathens in a special MTV Unplugged. This is MTV's most plugged Unplugged.

David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.

Ever since the Astrodome's grand opening night on April 9, 1965, when the Astros hosted the legendary Mickey Mantle and the New York Yankees in an exhibition game, baseball under glass has produced exciting times and great memories. The Astrodome revolutionized baseball and the game hasn't been the same since. Take a fun look back at the early years. Relive the excitement of the 1980 and '86 playoff series, then review the 1989 season as the Astros' young guns came of age, ready for the 1990s. All of these moments and more are captured in this video tribute to the Astros and their 25 years in the "Eight Wonder of the World." Written and produced by Houston sports journalist and Astros broadcaster Bruce Gietzen.