In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

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Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

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Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...

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Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a rom...

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This is a continuation of Friends Games. Now the group of friends realises they have fallen into thi...

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there...

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her ...