Top Cast
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Anabela Moreira
Josefina Antunes
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Martim Canavarro
Alexandre Antunes
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Margarida Moreira
Ângela Antunes
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Miguel Guilherme
Padre Manuel
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Eva Tecedeiro
Irmã Júlia
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Ângelo Torres
Edgar
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Lourenço Mimoso
Rafael
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Paulo Calatré
Notário
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Filomena Gigante
Adelaide
Overview
A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.
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Sleepwalking
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
You Can Count on Me
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
Novitiate
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
Jolene
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Dead Man Walking
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The Cement Garden
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
The Indian Runner
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
Eve's Bayou
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.
My Zoe
Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.