Balada da Praia dos Cães is a 1987 Portuguese-Spanish police film directed by José Fonseca and Costa. Fonseca and Costa also sign the feature of the feature film, with Pedro Bandeira Freire, José Antonio Larreta and the dialoguer Shawn Slovo, adapting the homonymous police novel written by the writer José Cardoso Pires. The narrative accompanies a complex police investigation in the 1960s led by Brigadier Elias Santana (played by Raul Solnado) to determine the origin of the murder of a political prisoner. Balada da Praia dos Cães premiered commercially in Portugal on 12 March 1987 and in Spain on 24 April of the same year.