Best Portuguese family series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch family shows from Portugal, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
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.
74Mrs. 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.
73Inspetor Max 2004
"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.
58Filipa's Notebooks 2021
Filipa Gomes is back at 24Kitchen with her new cooking project: “Cadernos da Filipa”, a program where she shows us the recipes of her life, full of memories and stories to tell.
65Floribella (PT) 2006
55Vale Tudo 2013
58O Pai Tirano 2022
60Instaverso 2020
52Rebelde Way Portugal 2008
The series follows the lives of the students, their parents and their professors, and it also features the regular use of English language and phrases by the upper class.
45Timeless Love 2023
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.
41Eléctrico 2019
Recorded live and in high definition at Teatro Capitólio, "Eléctrico" brings together two bands per program, who play their songs alternately. Vanessa Augusto and Henrique Amaro are responsible for bringing live music into your home.
42Jogo de Todos os Jogos 2019
The Portuguese version of "Ellen's Game of Games": the biggest, most dynamic and fun contest on television.
40Depois do Adeus 2013
35Nós os Ricos 1996
30A 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.
30Portal do Tempo 2013
In the bloom of adolescence, Jaime is bequeathed an ancient timepiece by his grandfather, a venerable artifact infused with the remarkable power to journey through time. At first, the young lad remains oblivious to the profound capabilities of the aged heirloom, deeming it inconsequential... until he is suddenly thrust into the embrace of the future. Upon sharing this enigmatic revelation with Laura and Daniel, his unwavering confidants, the trio embarks on a wondrous odyssey, brimming with extraordinary adventures destined to irrevocably reshape the trajectory of their existence.
30Anjo Selvagem 2001
Mariana de Jesus (Paula Neves) was born and raised in a convent. On the outside she is a tomboy. But she loves to dance, escaping in the middle of the night with her friend São (Teresa Tavares) to go clubbing. In one of these trips, Mariana meets Pedro (José Carlos Pereira), son of Álvaro Salgado (Alexandre de Sousa) and Helena Brandão Salgado (Manuela Carona), owners of Quinta de Nossa Senhora do Carmo. This farm had once been the scene of forbidden love. Álvaro, the only son fell in love with the housekeeper, Rosário (Sílvia Balancho) and she got pregnant. His father joins in business with Vicente Brandão, to save the farm arranging to marry his daughter Helena with Álvaro. Rosario finds out and runs away on a stormy night. Years later Álvaro started to take care of the business. Despite the children Pedro and Marta Brandão Salgado (Sara Moniz), the marriage to Helena, an alcoholic, is a disaster. Álvaro has an affair with Andreia Barroso (Vera Alves), the secretary.
20Dráculabelha 2020
"Draculabelha" shows the life of Rafael, a vampire of the Euglossini race, who in the past, after being bitten by a vampire, turned into one. Since then, he has successfully managed to save himself from the hunters, always having his faithful girlfriend Estela and Danny, his nerdy friend, with him.
20Palavras Cruzadas 1987
10Estrada Larga 1987
10Os Serranos 2005
10A Ferreirinha 2004
The life of Antonia Ferreira (popularly known as "Ferreirinha") from her widowhood to her death, including her role in the production and marketing of the Port wine.At the same time it's told the love story between Camilo Castelo Branco and Ana Plácido.
10Anabel 2005
10Super Pai 2000
10Nico d'Obra 1993
10Diário de Maria 1998
10João Semana 2005
10Old Friends 2011
Freedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.
10Alhos e Bugalhos 1996
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