Best Portuguese drama series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch drama shows from Portugal, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Vidago Palace (2017)
O Beijo do Escorpião (2014)
O Beijo do Escorpião (2014)
Doce (2021)
Doce (2021)
Series about one of the most iconic Portuguese bands, DOCE. Doce were one of the first "girls band" in Europe, opening the way not only in the musical world, but also breaking barriers and prejudices in traditional Portuguese society. The series is based on real events, following the band's entire journey from its appearance in 1979, until the end of the initial formation. Doce has outlasted all critics and left its mark on a generation and a country.
Tell Me How It Happened (2007)
Tell Me How It Happened (2007)
Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo.In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
Turn of the Tide (2023)
Abandonados (2022)
Abandonados (2022)
Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him.
Mrs. Hope (2020)
Mrs. Hope (2020)
Mrs. Hope is a charismatic octogenarian widow, living alone in a pleasant apartment in Lisbon along with her cat Baltazar, since her husband died, years ago.Mrs. Hope is not like some other older people. She likes ballroom dancing, aqua aerobics sports and from time to time visiting the neighborhood chapel to say goodbye to her old fellows who passed away letting escape some less orthodox comments that make laugh even the most serious.She had two sons, but only one is alive - Artur. He is married with Leonor and together they have a son Rodrigo, a wild teenager and the only Mrs. Hope grandson.Herminia is her best friend, but her truly fellow is Paulina, a bold Angolan woman, mother of the teenager Joyce that Mrs. Hope considers as her goddaughter.
Lines of Wellington (2013)
Lines of Wellington (2013)
In the autumn of 1810, the French forces of Marshal Masséna are invading Portugal and are temporarily halted by the Anglo-Portuguese army under Viscount Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco. As winter approaches, Wellington withdraws his troops towards the fortifications he has prepared in secret at the Lines of Torres Vedras. Using a scorched earth defense, he forces the inhabitants to evacuate the land, destroying all supplies that could be useful to the French. We see the effects on combatants, both regular soldiers and guerrillas, and on the civilian population.
Sweet Strawberries (2023)
Sweet Strawberries (2023)
When the school year starts at Barra Secondary school, a big artistic contest is launched to find the new talents of tomorrow. All students are excited, but a string of mysterious disappearances preceded by cyberbullying will disturb this cheerful excitement and divide the students. Everyone has something to hide, so everyone could be the next one to disappear...
Ouro Verde (2017)
Ouro Verde (2017)
Zé Maria Magalhães is an innocent young man who, suddenly, sees his dreams and family destroyed by a man's greed: Miguel Ferreira da Fonseca, a powerful banker. For 15 years, Zé Maria is forced to remain hidden, in a life of lies, in another country, imprisoned by the memories of the past, having to assume a new identity. Today, he is a great farmer, owner of the Ouro Verde empire, known as Jorge Monforte, and has become one of the richest men in Brazil. The course of time only fueled his desire for revenge, making him lose the sense of right and wrong and the ability to love. Fifteen years later, he returns to Portugal, ready to avenge the past and destroy Miguel Ferreira da Fonseca.
The Spy (2020)
The Spy (2020)
The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.
Quer o Destino (2020)
Quer o Destino (2020)
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.
The Delta Project (2023)
The Delta Project (2023)
Violeta is a young girl in transition from adolescence to adulthood. Suffering for years from a deep depression, she lives with her father, who spends most of his time locked in the attic of their house, in a small village.One night, Violeta has an unusually vivid dream about her father, where he says goodbye to her, whispering the cryptic word "LIRA".That morning, Violeta wakes up to the tragic news that her father was at hospital in a coma, after having jumped off a cliff.Violeta becomes obsessed with finding out what is behind her father's alleged suicide attempt, and the meaning of "LIRA".As she gets deeper and deeper into the Dream World, Violeta will find clues to what happened to her father, uncover ruthless government experiments, develop unimaginable psychic abilities, and come face to face with a mysterious and deadly dimension called the ‘Ether’.
Saber Amar (2003)
Saber Amar (2003)
Blue Lisbon (2019)
Blue Lisbon (2019)
How far can a father go to guarantee a world of happiness to his daughter? On the day when everything changes and the past emerges, a family adrift and its network of unlikely friends will be reunited in Lisbon. A Blue Lisbon, full of undoing knots.
Ninguém Como Tu (2005)
Ninguém Como Tu (2005)
Double Game (2017)
Double Game (2017)
The story of João and Margarida happens between Macao and Portugal. The young lovers were separated when they were teenagers and they find each other in Macao after many years. João has changed his life and he is now a rich mafia casino boss that, after the encounter with Margarida, decides to return to Portugal to reconquer her.
The Last Will (2025)
Subsolo (2018)
Subsolo (2018)
Five young people explore new perspectives and experiences in marginal Lisbon. As they seek to integrate into an established social structure, at night they walk on the ground where all their inner impulses flow.
Until Life Do Us Part (2021)
The Gipsy Heiress (2017)
The Gipsy Heiress (2017)
Duarte Alvarenga is a man with a model family and a great fortune, but who lost his wife and baby girl. Luz is an exotic beauty raised by a Gypsy family after she was kidnapped as a baby. When Luz inherits a large fortune, she gets mixed up in the world of drug trafficking, love, and mystery.
Sedução (2010)
Sedução (2010)
Os Filhos do Rock (2013)
Os Filhos do Rock (2013)
A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.
On Thin Ice (2019)
On Thin Ice (2019)
Filled with noble characters and locations, “Na Corda Bamba” strives for constant surprise and addresses a universal question: How far would you be willing to go to make a dream come true?
Value of Life (2018)
Value of Life (2018)
Artur and Carolina, who do not know each other, wake up on the same day from altered states of consciousness that left them out of life for many years. Both feel out of place in the world in which they wake up.
A Família Ventura (2017)
A Família Ventura (2017)
In Vale da Figueira, the Ventura prepare themselves for the first time to spend Christmas without the company of their children and grandchildren. But these plans change a few days before Christmas, when Francisco is taken to the hospital for emergency. This unexpected event will bring everyone inside the same house. Together, they renew their family spirit by accepting the changes that these days of coexistence have brought.
