José Pedro Gomes

Zé, a 50-year-old alcoholic, works in the port of Lisbon where he loads and unloads containers. Zé never left his neighborhood and is hiding his savings so that one day he'll be able to board one of the huge cruise ships he sees everyday. When his jealous wife steals his money, Zé will do everything to fulfil his dream.

An adult movie director is recruited by a shady producer to finish the latter's overambitious and over budget epic. Hijinks quickly ensue as he brings his peculiar style and even more peculiar team along to the very serious production.

Peri works as a debt collector for a loan shark in downtown Rio de Janeiro. One day, after making a serious mistake at work, he is sent out of Brazil. It is during his journey to his new country, Portugal, that he meets Abgail, a woman who helps him calm down. In Lisbon, Peri starts working for “The Tailcoat Collector”, a curious debt collection company whose job is to follow debtors dressed in tailcoats, intimidating them into paying their debts. Peri is always very successful until the moment he is called to collect from Abgail, the woman he met on the plane and with whom he will fall madly in love.

When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.

Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be actors, instead of the ill-reputed 'Good-Night Pension' (just across the narrow street), where gigolos, whores, and criminals of all sorts may go for a quick encounter. However, not all is well among the ten residents of 'Little Star Pension': each dialogue line from every hotel guest is evidence that he, or her, has a reason (actually, more than one) to hate Neves - to the point of wishing him dead. Carelessness (or devious intention) by one party will provide the means; another, will create the propitious moment; yet another, and then the rest of them will create the festive New Year's Eve occasion - to do with Neves forever! Obviously, only the famous world private-eye Hércules Pirôt can solve the crime... for which he is called by phone, even before the deed is done.

At gunpoint, a plastic surgeon must operate on a criminal to escape the police. But when the criminal returns for treatment, the doctor plans to take revenge on his unfaithful wife.

Vanessa inherits an old Portuguese Revue theatre after the death of a distant aunt. Her agent, Tozé Leal, tries to convince her to sell it, but she decides to restore it to its former glory with the help of her friends Joana and Ribeiro. But her dream will not be easy to achieve: Armando, the owner of a neighbouring theatre, will do everything he can to stop Vanessa.

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.

Three brothers are confronted with an imposing father who avail them the heritage, identity and emotional intelligence: seven weeks is the deadline for each of them find the respect and love of a woman.

The world is not enough to cover all the misfortunes that afflict Lucas. An orphan, a loner and a troublemaker, Lucas is a moving target for all sorts of misfortunes. But things are never so bad that they can't get worse: Lucas loses his job and is about to be evicted from his home. When all seems lost, he receives a phone call from a childhood friend asking for his help. He has to entertain two influencers for a weekend in a luxurious mansion. It is in this veritable technological trap, guarded by a mysterious Englishman, that Lucas will discover unexpected secrets about his past and, more importantly, it is there that he will discover love. Danger, suspense and cocktail recipes! Romance, eroticism (to die for) and impossible snooker shots! Secret weapons, fast cars and scooter races! LIVE AND LET GO is a romantic action comedy with a licence to kill... with laughter!

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.

New years special aired on RTP on 1991

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.

The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, the richest man in town, to raise her. But the death of his wife leads António to marry Berta for the second time, and it soon becomes clear that the large family home is too small to accommodate both Luizinha and her stepmother. At the height of the conflict, António defends his daughter and Berta files for a contentious divorce. Shortly afterwards, she is found dead and António is accused of murder. But the truth that the court seeks to uncover may not be the most obvious one.

After having an "apocalyptic vision" in a peep-show cabin, Zezé decides to enter in the Order of the Caracolários Descalços. Tóni visits his friend, that is in a monastery. The reencounter of these old friends makes them go back in time and remember their adventures...

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla with him. However, the reality the two teens are in complicates their plans...

Seen by more than 200,000 spectators, the show sold out every venue where it was staged. With updated texts and images, and the duo António Ferio and José Pedro Gomes, it continues the everyday conversations about everything and nothing! Show recorded in July 2003, at the Recreios Coliseum, with over 2h30m of pure entertainment.

Gender equality is bullshit, but that's going to change! Or is it? If until now this was a club for smooth-talking gentlemen, the film marks the debut of Détinha (Ana Bola), the legendary wife of Zezé (José Pedro Gomes). Decades of life together remembered as best as possible: their children's antics, the neighborhood where they always dumped their trash, the wedding that only those who were there forgot. From polyamory to fitness, from prostate "prostheses" to uterine "ovens," this couple has no taboos. But Zezé and Détinha have some secrets from each other... Unfortunately (or regrettably, Zezé would say), the Portuguese will have to find out. What a load of crap.

In the past, life was a jungle. Now, life is a selfie. All the bullshit has spread and grown on social media, and experts have had some difficulty finding genuine bullshit conversation. But those who are alive always die, and they also always reappear. Nothing is lost, everything is transformed—the genetic code of Bullshit is reborn.

Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana Zanatti) goes to have dinner with her daughter (Beatriz Batarda). Terrorised by the possibility of being turned into Chop Suey, the dog passes a frightening night, running through the restaurant and hearing the telenovela-like conversations taking place at the different tables. With the camera placed in the dog’s perspective, this short film acts as an amusing panorama of Lisbon society at the end of the 20th century.

Entangled in crime since childhood, Zeca Mouro experienced probation, reform school, and jail through expediency and marginality. His life is thus defined by crime and atonement.

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

A family by force... Paulo and Susana have been together for a few years now and decide to take the next step in their relationship by moving in together. But, as they're signing the deed to the house, her father, who was supposed to bring the check, ends up delivering the bad news that there is no money for the house, thus ending this young couple’s dream. However, Artur doesn’t want to come off as a bad parent, so he offers his attic to them so that they can start their life together. So, Paulo’s dream turns into an absolute nightmare, as their life as a couple is, in fact, shared with seven other people who are all very different from them and will start controlling their every move in a permanently tense environment. The Mata family, as it turns out, is all insane, the only exception being Susana. And even her will have a hard time convincing the rest of the family to accept and welcome their new member.

When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.

Herman encyclopedia is a sketch comedic show with every episode centered on a theme, The host (Herman) and other actors play many characters spoofing Portuguese TV shows, famous Portuguese people and other Portuguese related stuff.