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- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsDiogo DóriaLuís Miguel CintraRicardo TrêpaDon Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.
- DirectorJoão BotelhoStarsCláudio da SilvaCassiano CarneiroPedro InêsA remarkable imagining of the historic voyages of 16th-century explorer and writer Fernão Mendes Pinto, one of the first Europeans to sail to and travel the Orient-- India, Japan, and places in between. Choral renditions of Portuguese singer-songwriter Fausto's progressive 80's pop album "Por Este Rio Acima" add inspiration to a lush period drama.
- DirectorHumberto MauroStarsAlvaro CostaJoão de DeusManoel RochaThe Armada of Pedro Álvares Cabral discovers Brazil.
- DirectorCarla CamuratiStarsMarieta SeveroAntonio AbujamraThales Pan ChaconA hot blooded Spanish princess plots to conquer her enemies and become queen.
- DirectorGuel ArraesStarsSelton MelloCamila PitangaDeborah SeccoDiogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
- DirectorAlain FresnotStarsSimone SpoladoreOsmar PradoCaco CioclerThe story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
- DirectorLuís Alberto PereiraStarsCarlos EvelynAriana MessiasDarci FigueiredoOn the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsJosé WilkerLuiz LinharesPaulo César PeréioA film version of the Minas Gerais Conspiracy, a separatist movement that took place on the year 1789, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.
- DirectorOswaldo CaldeiraStarsHumberto MartinsPaulo AutranCláudio Corrêa e CastroThe story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged.
- DirectorGeraldo VietriStarsAdriano ReysCláudio Corrêa e CastroChico MartinsEnsign Joaquim José da Silva Xavier disseminates the ideal of making Brazil independent. The movement, called Inconfidência Mineira, ended after Silvério Reis's betrayal and the consequent hanging of Tiradentes.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsTarcísio MeiraGlória MenezesDionísio AzevedoThe dream of Brazilian independence, under Dom Pedro I, is expressed in the cry of "Freedom or Death" (O Grito de Independencia ou Morte), since cries were the only way to rally up support against colonial oppression. Dom Pedro I (played by Tarcisio Meira) heads Brazil's break from his own parent's homeland, Portugal. A classic Brazilian historical costume drama epic.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsRicardo TrêpaLeonor BaldaqueManoel de OliveiraA true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.