João Bettencourt

Quer o Destino

A story of love and revenge of a woman who, as an adult, returns to the place where she was raped and where she will be surprised with her ability to overcome.

A Protegida

In the heart of the Alentejo countryside, Mariana and José Diogo are two children whose backgrounds could not be more different: she is the fruit of a loving relationship; he's an orphan. She has a safe haven in her family to run to when she gets hurt; he can only run to her.

3 Women

A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.

Lucia of Fatima

Lucia of Fatima takes us back to the beginning of 20th century, allowing us to trace the whole journey of the girl behind the religious figure. During her childhood, the Fatima prophet was arrested, submitted to cruel interrogations, taken away from her family and denied the right to her own identity. Lucia resisted it all and kept her story alive. She was the guardian of the secret.

The Medalists

The trail of clues that thickens the plot... Diana is a promising national athlete. After dropping out of the High-Performance Center (CAR) a year ago, she is now back to the place where she’ll reconnect with her brother Sérgio a high-ranking Judo player. Diana dreams of following her brother’s footsteps, whom she sees as an idol, and win a spot at the Olympics, but an accident puts Sérgio in a coma. Aside from trying to reach her Olympic goals, Diana is now driven to find out what made her brother be put between life and death. Despite the police report stating that the accident was blameless and unexpected, Diana will follow the clues that will lead her to believe that her brother might have been the victim of attempted murder.

Prisioneira

Timeless Love

Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by love.

Leading Role

At the center of this story is Aurora Guerra, a popular actress who became a star in the teen series "The Chosen Ones" at an early age. Irene and Julio, Aurora's parents, signed her up for a casting several years ago and the matriarch, realizing that the decision was between her and another girl, managed to play the casting director in Aurora's favor. Lúcia has the same dream: to be a successful actress and decides to apply for the casting as well, but she soon realizes Irene's scheme and decides to confront her. After a violent argument between the two, Lúcia ends up having an accident that almost took her life and killed her chance of becoming an actress, due to the physical disabilities she was left with. Twenty years later, Lucia is determined to take revenge. The young woman wants to get back what she believes Aurora has taken from her, far from imagining that she is just a victim of Irene's evil deeds.

Life Is Life

Ana Margarida Rosa Lobo, a 70-year-old actress at the end of her career, discovers she has Alzheimer's and without explaining to anyone, she decides to end her five-decade marriage with Sérgio and move to another house to enjoy her lucidity while she can. This decision causes an upheaval in the professional and personal lives of her four daughters. Faced with this situation, the family will be tested to the limit and the four women change their way of looking at life, questioning their love relationships that they have also built.

Blood'less' Revolution

In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.