Hand-Picked Alternatives for Fans of A Rosa do Adro: Cult Guide

Dir: George Pallu

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Cláudia perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Madame Fidias suffers with jealousy of all those young women who pose for her husband's sculpture work. She fights to get Phi-Phi's (her affectionate name for Fidias) attentions back, using her feminine charms and cunning.

Dir: George Pallu

Modern version of the Cinderella story.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La vierge du rocher perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: George Pallu

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: George Pallu

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Amor de Perdição perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Simão loves Teresa whose father wants her to marry cousin Baltazar instead. The two lovers meet secretly; Baltazar pays a thug to kill his rival, and Simão is badly wounded. Teresa is forced into a convent. Mariana - who secretly loves Simão - treats him, and helps him to escape. SPOILERS AHEAD Baltazar intervenes, and this time the two rivals fight, and one of them dies. The love story will end tragically to the survivors. Simão is sentenced to prison in India - which amounts to a death sentence. Mariana goes with him, but neither will survive the voyage. Teresa dies in her convent, after receiving a last love letter from Simão.

Dir: George Pallu

Reconstruction of Bernadette Soubirous's life (1844-1879), a 14-year-old girl that catholics believe had eighteen visions of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in a grotto near Lourdes, France. The place became a peregrination centre since then.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La vie merveilleuse de Bernadette perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: George Pallu

The amorous sacrifices of the daughter of Tomé da Póvoa, Berta, with the gentleman Jorge and, in parallel, the warm connection of the other son of Dom Luis, Maurício, with dedicated cousin Gabriela.

Dir: George Pallu

Frankly, the Jewish banker Carlos Gold manages to transform into his criminal instrument a certain adventurer, who had tried to steal it after losing, in a gambling house, all the money he had.

Dir: George Pallu

Luísa, three years ago, Jorge's wife, who is about to leave on a mission to the Alentejo, is aware of the arrival of his cousin Basilio, after a long stay in Brazil, where he seems to have made a fortune.