O Primo Basílio

Luísa is a bored housewife in 19th-century Lisbon whose life is upended when her cousin Basílio returns from abroad and initiates a passionate affair. When her husband Jorge leaves for a business trip, the secret romance spirals into a nightmare of blackmail and social ruin. This classic of Portuguese realism exposes the hypocrisy and moral decay of the bourgeoisie.