Catalog - Volf Entertainment

Films

Series

Conspiracy Theories

2019
Crime, Drama
18x45’

Synopsis

Maria Amado, an investigative journalist, faces a crisis amid political and financial scandals. Her complicated relationship with Judiciary Police investigator José Madeira is haunted by her past. Meanwhile, attorney Pedro Soares Teixeira, adept in both power and crime, works to thwart their discoveries. A series of events, including a bank bankruptcy and political cover-ups, shakes the country’s political and economic structure, defying conventional explanations.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT)

Director:

Manuel Pureza

Shot and Fall

2019
Comedy
78’

Synopsis

Eddie and Manecas, best friends with galaxy-sized stupidity, live under their wives’ rule in “Cambodja.” Leading secret double lives, they receive a coded message for a mission in Viana do Castelo. Staying in a strange hotel, a mysterious woman assigns them to eliminate two targets aboard the Gil Eanes Ship. As their wives follow their tracks, will Eddie and Manecas succeed like professional snipers, or is this a hilarious satire of Portuguese society?

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Master Dream (PT)

Director:

Ramón de los Santos

Brother Country

2017
Comedy
18x45’

Synopsis

Facing a potential scandal, the Portuguese Government devises a wild plan: co-produce the most spectacular soap opera ever with Brazil, to distract the public. José and Luís, a father-son duo with a troubled past, dive into the chaotic world behind “Tropical Court.” They navigate actors, religious fanatics, manipulative politicians, idle elders, and their own issues. In “País Irmão,” reality proves stranger than fiction.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT)

Director:

Sérgio Graciano

Daughter of the Law

2017
Crime, Drama
20x45’

Synopsis

Chief Inspector Isabel Garcia faces her biggest challenge: leading the most crucial police case in 20 years involving violent serial killings. Trainee inspector Samuel Lopes, with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins her squad, striving to earn respect from experienced inspectors. Working with Samuel helps Garcia better understand her 16-year-old daughter, Sara, from her failed marriage to ruthless reporter Jaime.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT)

Director:

Sérgio Graciano

Adrift

2017
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
95’

Synopsis

A weekend cruise turns disastrous when friends take a swim without lowering the yacht’s stairs, leaving them stranded in the ocean. Unable to climb back on board, they float miles from shore. As exhaustion sets in, their hope of survival fades. What began as a joyful reunion becomes a desperate fight for survival.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Master Dream (PT)

Director:

Sérgio Graciano

Someone Like Me

2017
Comedy, Romance
87’

Synopsis

Helena, a 30-year-old woman, decides to be single, intelligent, and unavailable. However, she meets the one person she didn’t want to: The One. Her planned year of personal enrichment turns into a chaotic test of her IQ. Asking God for help, she unexpectedly gets a capable man and a woman, leading to a sort of ‘three-way’ relationship. Is Helena prepared for this?

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Gullane (BR)

Director:

Leonel Vieira

Lisbon’s Song

2016
Comedy
110’ 3x40’

Synopsis

Vasco Leitão lives off the allowance that his aunts, who live in Oporto, give him. They think he is a dedicated student. Yet Vasco prefers the bars and the pretty ladies, particularly Alice, a talented musician and the daughter of the candidate for Prime Minister José Caetano. All hell breaks loose for Vasco when on the same day he flunks yet another oral test, his aunts send him an email announcing they are going to see him in Lisbon very soon!

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Skydreams Entertainment (PT)

Director:

Pedro Varela

The Lion of Estrela

2015
Comedy
110’ 3x40’

Synopsis

Anastácio, a humble public employee, values his family—wife Carla and daughters Branca and Joana—and his neighborhood football club, “Os Leões de Alcochete.” With a crucial match in Alentejo approaching, Joana crashes his car. Miguel, a mechanic involved with his niece, offers an 8-person taxi. They must pretend to be wealthy to stay at Joana’s Facebook friend Eduardo Barata’s villa. An absurd plan that might just work.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Skydreams Entertainment (PT)

Director:

Leonel Vieira

The Courtyard of Songs

2015
Comedy
108’ 3x40’

Synopsis

At Evaristo’s Courtyard lives the delightful Rosa, a discrete woman admired by two men. Narciso, a hardworking polyglot tourist guide, is always available for the tourism. Evaristo, the owner of a new gourmet grocery store, has a wild temper and a burdensome teenage daughter, Celeste, aspiring to be a soap opera star. With the Santo António holiday approaching, temptations of the flesh loom at the Courtyard.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Skydreams Entertainment (PT)

Director:

Leonel Vieira

The Duel

2015
Comedy, Drama, Romance
109’ 3x40’

Synopsis

Adaptation of the book “Home is the Sailor” by the baiano Jorge Amado. The quiet village of Periperi, a seaside resort situated near a major port city, is agitated by the arrival of a picturesque stranger, Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão, long haul captain. At sixty, he comes to stay, seeking rest after a long life of adventure across the world.

Credits

Production:

RTP (PT) Itaca Films (MX) Stopline Films (PT) Total Entertainment (BR)

Director:

Marcos Jorge

Road 47

2013
Drama / War
107’

Synopsis

During the Second World War in December 1944 in the coldest winter morning that Europe had lived until then, a platoon of the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB), entrenched in the foothills of Monte Castelo in Italy, has a collective panic attack. Cold, hungry and fear, the platoon just panicked down the mountain and lose themselves in the middle of snow and despair.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Três Mundos (BR) Primo Films (BR)

Director:

Vicente Ferraz

Final Time

2010
Drama, Thriller
6x50’

Synopsis

A 6-episode mini-series based on the Argentinean hit “Tiempo Final,” featuring isolated episodes unfolding in real time. Each hour-long story, set in one location with up to four characters, delivers unpredictable twists and relentless suspense, often as police dramas. The series combines great suspense, doses of humor, and surprising endings that keep viewers guessing until the last second.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT)

Director:

Leonel Vieira
Pedro Varela
Yuri Alves

The Ten

2010
Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Telefilme / TV Movie 100’

Synopsis

A fictional series with an incursion into the fantastic, based on a Portuguese legend of ten women who found ten Roman coins in a cave. Together, the ten coins revealed a secret so important that the women decided to separate them and keep them in their families.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT)

Connection

2009
Action, Crime, Drama
2x90’

Synopsis

“Conexão” is a fictional show inspired by a true story. It begins with the Portuguese police seizing a trawler loaded with Moroccan hash. The case goes to two morally dubious Criminal Police inspectors. A classic rise-and-fall tale of success and corruption, with parallel drama plots converging in the end. “Conexão” explores the drug market, from users to major businessmen, small traders, and high-potential young entrepreneurs.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Continental Producciones (ES) Prodigius Audiovisual (ES)

Director:

Leonel Vieira

The Art of Stealing

2008
Action / Dark Humor
103’

Synopsis

“The Art of Stealing” is an action comedy about two amateur thieves that will try to pull their biggest hustle: still an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the most unsuspected place of all, a mansion in the middle of nowhere.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Fado Filmes (PT) Nadie Es Perfecto (ES) CCFBR Produções (BR) Cinemate (PT) Galavis Films (ES) SIC Filmes (PT)

Director:

Leonel Vieira

Judgement

2007
Thriller / Drama
98’

Synopsis

Three men were tortured by the police of the dictatorship. Now they meet up with the torturer and decide to kidnap him and judge him. Trial lies on the borderline between justice and vengeance, right and wrong, in a crescendo of tension that puts friendships, relationships and convictions to the test.

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) TVI (PT)

Director:

Leonel Vieira

Bullcrap Movie

2006
Comedy
90

Synopsis

After the giant success both on television and theatre stages, the adventures of Zezé and Toni arrive to the cinema in 2006, turning into one of Portugal’s biggest box office successes. A script loaded with humor and satire, full of puns and gags, that lets us know these two characters a lot better, as well as their surroundings, families and friends, unknown to the audiences until now

Credits

Production:

Stopline Films (PT) Pedro & Branko (PT)

Director:

José Sacramento