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Birthday:
07-03-1921
Deathday:
02-19-1983 (61 years)
Birthplace:
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Francisca
Act like Marques
event 1981 star_border 7.4
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The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
A Bee in the Rain
Act like Álvaro Silvestre
event 1972 star_border 6.3
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This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
event 1976 star_border 5
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Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.
Enchanted Isles
Act like Faial
event 1965 star_border 6.9
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A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
Change of Life
Act like Inácio
event 1967 star_border 7.3
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After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
Trails
Act like The Lord of the Lands
event 1978 star_border 7.2
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Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
The Siren's Song
Act like Tio Cabaça
event 1983 star_border 5
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Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
O Defunto
event 1981 star_border 5
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Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
Act like Professor Antena
event 1983 star_border 5
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The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
Silvestre
Act like D. Rodrigo
event 1982 star_border 6.3
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A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Dirty Laundry
event 2020 star_border 5.3
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Two millennials: Richard, a film studies student, and Ethan, a music producer preparing to launch his own startup—share a flat in Macau with a cherished washing machine, affectionately named R3D2. When they suddenly need to dispose of it, though, the two Westerners embark on a nine-minute journey of desperation, misdemeanors, and language barriers that folds the history of Macau into a dryly funny take on the myth of Sisyphus.
Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico
Act like Dr. Valença
event 1963
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João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.
Circle of Passions
event 1983 star_border 3
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An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Velhos são os Trapos
event 1981
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Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.
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