在19世纪中叶传统的贸易小镇波尔图，自傲的富家公子奥古斯托是作家卡米洛的朋友，他爱上了英国军官的小女儿范妮。面对周遭阻挠和几场分分合合之后，他们终于得以结婚。但婚后，奥古斯托因范妮与卡米洛通信而冷落范妮。之后，范妮因肺结核病倒，在压抑孤独的婚后生活中走向死亡。奥古斯托因命运的磨难，很快就跟随了芬妮的步伐。本片是奥利维拉登峰造极之作，以静止大胆的手法讲述时代变迁社会风起云涌之际贵族间的毁灭式的爱情，以及贵族男所特有扣逼唯美人格。

这是一部介于剧情片和纪录片之间的电影。奥利维拉借助这种混合了纪录与虚构的手法，重塑了葡萄牙的著名城市同时也是他的故乡的波尔多。影片中穿插着照片、过去拍摄的电影片段，以及今日的真实场景和奥利维拉虚构的往日景象。在其中个人和历史之间的界线在这样一种追忆中消失掉了。街头的任何一角都如奥利维拉所说的“时间的艺术”——电影的一部分。它们是灵魂的闪现。影片结束处，镜头驶向了入夜之中的波尔多的大海，灯塔的灯依然...

迈克尔（约翰·马尔科维奇 John Malkovich 饰）是一位专门研究莎士比亚的美国学者，某日，为了得到一份珍贵的资料，迈克尔带着妻子海伦（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰），从巴黎前往阿拉碧达修道院拜访，在那里，夫妻两人结识了修道院的管理人波塔（路易斯·米格尔·辛特拉 Luís Miguel Cintra 饰）。
刚一见面，波塔就被优雅而又神秘的海伦深深吸引，为了能够得到海伦，波塔特意安排了年轻性感的女孩皮耶黛（雷奥勒·希尔维拉 Leonor Silveira 饰）作为迈克尔的助理。波塔的这一招果然奏效了，海伦因为迈克尔整日埋首于学术之中而感到大为的不满。

An indirect autobiography of Paulo Rocha, through the character of a father, that explores family, opportunity, immigration and identity.

讲述20世纪初派驻缅甸仰光的大英帝国殖民官员爱德华在未婚妻莫莉到来当日仓皇落跑后的奇妙旅程。

Mário, an 8-year-old boy abducted in central Portugal during the spring of 1999, resurfaces 12 years later in a Parisian jail. This period of disappearance hides a terrible secret and all the complexities of this mysterious character.

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.

A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.