Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.

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An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

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Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man ...

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Mille...

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In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...