Best Portuguese soap series

Morangos com Açúcar was a Portuguese Teen drama. It was broadcast daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI between 30 August 2003 to 15 September 2012. It has also been broadcast in Angola, Syria, Brazil and Romania.

Twins who have never seen each other find out they were torn apart at birth. A crime was behind the disappearance of one of them. A romance can keep them from being a family. A secret will bring them together again.

Ana Margarida Rosa Lobo, a 70-year-old actress at the end of her career, discovers she has Alzheimer's and without explaining to anyone, she decides to end her five-decade marriage with Sérgio and move to another house to enjoy her lucidity while she can. This decision causes an upheaval in the professional and personal lives of her four daughters. Faced with this situation, the family will be tested to the limit and the four women change their way of looking at life, questioning their love relationships that they have also built.

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.

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.

Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.

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.

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.

On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

This is the story of a woman who fell in love and was betrayed. Her beloved was successful at the expense of a song that stole from her, while she was forced to fight for survival, far from her homeland. It is also the story of a girl forced to mature quickly, to raise her daughter, without knowing that, after all, it was not her daughter she was raising...

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?

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 village in the interior of Portugal is preparing the best village festival ever, in the year that marks the centenary of its greatest benefactor. Everyone does their best in organizing the party always with something in mind: the inheritance of the elderly woman.

"Amar Depois de Amar" tells the story of four great passions and the crime they unleash between the Macedo family and the Oliveira family.

An airplane disappears mysteriously; on board was Verónica, the twin sister of Vitória, the victim of a fraud by a millionaire. Presumed dead, Verónica assumes the identity of her sister and plans to avenge herself on the entrepreneur's family, finding a strong opponent in his wife Diana.

The story of stories... Nazaré is happy in her life with Duarte and their children, Alice and little Zé. But her world is suddenly turned upside down when police finds drugs inside the fish she’s transporting and counterfeit money in the cold storage at Geliré. Behind all this is Verónica, who was rescued at sea and is back to settle the score. Nazaré is certain that it was her husband’s aunt that framed her, who she sees in a car while she's being arrested. With Toni's help, Nazaré then turns into a fugitive. By disguising herself and taking on a false identity, Nazaré is now Carla Isabel, at least until she manages to prove her innocence. While on the run, Nazaré gets in the High Note tour bus and is forced to leave Duarte and her children behind. As she manages to gain the trust of Mel, Leandro and Sandra, besides the label’s bus driver, she also lends a hand as a bodyguard for Romeu’s daughter.

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.

It is possible to start over even after experiencing hell. An unexpected inheritance and a crime give an unjustly treated woman the opportunity to change her life.

Maria Rita is a pastor in the Covilhã area who goes to Aveiro in search of her origins, and where she falls in love with David, a lawyer who has a relationship with Vera. Vera is the daughter of Henrique, a man blinded by the business he inherited from previous generations, and he does not look at the means to achieve his ends. She gets involved with Arthur, who helps her with her antics, while obsessing over her boyfriend David.

Maria Miguel é uma jovem de 21 anos que perdeu a mãe há três, vítima de cancro, e nunca conheceu o pai, razão pela qual se vê obrigada a batalhar diariamente pelo seu sustento. Antes de ficar órfã, Maria preparava-se para terminar o 12.º e ir estudar canto para Londres, mas o dinheiro que juntou acabou por ser usado nos tratamentos da mãe, acumulando ainda uma avultada dívida. Três anos depois, a viver em casa de uma mulher septuagenária e a trabalhar na pizzaria Quatro Estações, Maria continua a ser uma jovem otimista e alegre, mas a quem a vida ensinou a viver um dia de cada vez, sem grandes planos. A sua vida muda drasticamente quando, a caminho de uma entrega de pizzas, procura evitar o atropelamento de dois jovens, lançando-se de motorizada contra um carro que seguia a grande velocidade.

"Alma e Coração" is a story about the impossibility of escaping from who we are and our past. The plot portrays the need to love and be loved, as well as the black man of human nature, the power of self-preservation and the awareness that we are able to do for revenge.

In 1984, two sisters, Inês and Marta, fall into the strong currents of a river while fighting each other over a doll. Their father manages to save Inês, the oldest of the two, but Marta is nowhere to be found and is presumed dead. Their mother, pregnant of a boy, witnesses everything, and grieves the death of her husband (who died rescuing his daughters), and supposedly, of her youngest daughter. In the current day, Inês is a strong, kind person, who owns the M restaurant with her mother. She's in love with João, a doctor that constantly volunteers to partake in humanitarian causes. When he returns from one of those campaigns in the Amazon, he realizes how much he truly loves Inês, and proposes to her, to which she says yes. However, their happyness is ruined by multiple tragedies going on in their lives, such as João's grandfather suffering a stroke and, during their wedding announcement dinner, João's sister being fatally shot in the sequence of a robbery. Meanwhile, Marta, Inês' missing and presumed dead sister, lives her life as Diana, a pretty but power-hungry lady that pities her vulgar life. After the accident with her and Inês, - whose resulting shock made her lose her memory about her past - she was found, adopted by a new family, whom, moments before finding her, had been mourning their own dead child. Diana doesn't know anything about her real family, until she hears a conversation between her adoptive parents that reveals the secret. She then remembers everything, and searches for her biological family, which she eventually finds and swears one thing: revenge. Particularly on Inês, whom she promises that she'll take everything away from her (from her material goods, to her own boyfriend João) and live the life that she believes her sister stole from her.

The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.

The life of the Menezes family changes radically after the disappearance of Elisa, the eldest daughter of Rui and Francisca Menezes. With the tragedy, the obscure secrets of every family member, every friend, every person around Elisa, are unraveled.

Pedro’s life has always been shrouded in mystery. He was abandoned as a child and grew up in a church. The only thing that has ever made sense to him is his first love; Clara. Clara comes from a high-class family. Her father cannot accept her relationship and sets a trap that will tear them apart forever. A tragic accident will force Pedro to flee without explanation. But destiny will bring them back together. Clara has to rebuild her life and returns to her childhood city. Pedro wants to find the answers to his biggest existential questions; who is his family and why was he abandoned? When he arrives in his native city, he meets Clara and discovers that she is engaged to his biological brother. No matter the cost, Pedro will try to get her back and discover the truth about his past.

50 minute weekly show covering show business from Hollywood movies, to Brazilian "novelas" and Portugal's film, theater and music scenes with interviews and reports made all over the world. Hosted by Felipa Garnel (1996-2001), Margarida Pinto Correia (1996-1997) and Paulo Pires (1997-2001) at SIC Television in Portugal

After spending 18 years in imprisonment for killing his wife to spare her the suffering from an incurable disease, Carlos is finally released during a prison riot. At first, he refuses to leave, because his freedom means facing a painful past. Meanwhile, Margarida, who lives in Castelo Branco with her grandmother, moves to Lisbon to study veterinary medicine. She starts exploring her unknown mother's past, without knowing that she and Carlos are more connected than she could imagine.

Meu Amor is a Portuguese telenovela which aired from October 19, 2009 to October 23, 2010 on TVI. The show won the 2010 International Emmy award for best telenovela.

What side is love on? Vera and Rodrigo are absolutely passionate about each other and get married, having João as the product of their love. But, like any other marriage, their relationship has its ups and downs between intense passion and their differing life views. Vera is a up and coming lawyer and Rodrigo an agronomy engineer. She's an urban woman who doesn’t do well in a rural environment while he loves the country and bulls, not too keen on city life. To make things worse, along comes Eduardo, Vera's boss and a brilliant but vicious lawyer. He hopes to prevent any possibility of reconciliation between Vera and Rodrigo and ensure that Vera keeps full custody of their son João. He wants this because, when he was deployed in Angola as a military, Eduardo swore to Rodrigo’s father João Maria, that he’d have his revenge.

The collapse of a great national bank triggers the clash of two realities and the conflict between two families — Luís Miguel, a young engineer from a conservative family who seeks to grow in his career in Angola, and Mara, a nurse from a wealthy family who saves Luís from near death.

Remédio Santo is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 18 May 2011.

Eva Lemos lives a stable and seemingly happy life, until Marco, her husband, disappears suddenly after knowing that she is pregnant. Marco steals all her money, leaving her homeless and without a job, while Eva learns that Marco was only with her out of interest and lives a double life with Maria. Hatred and revolt take Eva into a journey that transforms her deeply... and not for the better.

Vera de Almeida Barreto highlights her choices as a woman dedicated to family, sacrificing herself to support her husband's career and raise their three children. Upon discovering Lourenço's affair with lawyer Daniela Lopes (Rita Salema), a younger woman, Vera reevaluates her life, questioning her role as a woman and facing a lack of support from her children in this challenging situation. The plot becomes even more complex when Vera falls in love with a younger man, challenging societal norms and exposing the double standards surrounding age differences in relationships.

Dancin' Days is a Portuguese soap opera which began airing on SIC in June 2012.