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.

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat fru...

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

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

The burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his ...

Chandran, a circus performer, and Thankam are in love. The circus team borrows some money from Thank...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrific...

Portugal had been recovering after the reforms following the end of “The Great Cyber War” years prio...

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

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to con...

Katlin is a high school student whose obsession with gambling leads to her accumulating a mountain o...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...

The various faces of youth and people in an enclosed space of a convenience store for 12 hours.

Eternal daydreamer Mel can't wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: P...

Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1...

Ex Con Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) returns to home a changed man looking to take over his father's ...

Forced by her poor father to live with a well-off man, a young girl must find a way to escape her ne...

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h...