
Birthday:
11-15-1958
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Lisbon, Portugal
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Corruption
Act like the president of the referees
event2007 star_border 3.9
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A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Five Days, Five Nights
Act like Acácio
event1996 star_border 5.6
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Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
Alice
Act like Zé
event2005 star_border 7.2
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In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Act like Pvt. Salvador / Lusitanian Warrior / Alcácer Warrior
event1990 star_border 6.2
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Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
The Divine Comedy
Act like Raskolnikov
event1991 star_border 6.8
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In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
O Delfim
Act like Padre Novo
event2002 star_border 5.9
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A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.
Lovely Child
Act like Gigi
event1990 star_border 6.2
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Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
Blind Man's Bluff
Act like Man
event1994 star_border 6.8
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A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
The Fascination
Act like Sousa
event2003 star_border 5
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An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss
Act like Almada Negreiros
event1988 star_border 6
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A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.
The Portuguese Falcon
Act like General Gaivota
event2015 star_border 6.6
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A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".
Bloody Night
Act like Óscar Carmona
event2010 star_border 7
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A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…
Poor George
Act like Engineer Lopes
event1993 star_border 5.1
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One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Outside
Act like Pimente
event2004 star_border 5
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Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.
The Fifth Empire
Act like Truão
event2004 star_border 6.4
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Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
The Courtyard of the Ballads
Act like Evaristo
event2015 star_border 5.2
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A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.
When It Thunders
Act like António
event2000 star_border 5.5
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The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back and lets himself drown. From the woods come Violeta and Gaspar, two strange beings, a mixture of fairies, demons and guardian angels, who help António overcome his depression. With the thunders the two characters return to their domains. And life goes on.
O Leão da Estrela
Act like Anastácio
event2015 star_border 6.1
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The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?
Duke
event1988 star_border 6
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Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder.
A Song of Lisbon
Act like José Caetano
event2016 star_border 5.6
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How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?
Malvadez
Act like Manuel
event1990 star_border 7
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Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers
Four
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2014
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A look at the art of two pairs of brothers, plastic artists: João Queiroz, Jorge Queiroz; Pedro Tropa and Francisco Tropa.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Act like Faleiro
event2009 star_border 6.2
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On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
The House of the Spirits
Act like Soldier
event1993 star_border 6.9
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A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Low-Flying Aircraft
Act like André
event2002 star_border 5.6
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Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.
Disquiet
Act like Homem da Gramática
event2010 star_border 5.7
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Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.
The Heart's Root
Act like Oscar
event2000 star_border 5.7
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Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.
88
Act like Rui
event2002
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A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.
Abraham's Valley
Act like Motorcyclist
event1993 star_border 7.5
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Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Parque Mayer
Act like José
event2018 star_border 5.7
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Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Mario Pintor (paintor) is writing a play in which a new actress (Deolinda) will star as the main role, while an already famous actor named Eduardo tries to seduce this recent arrival.
Dead Man's Memories
Act like Der Polizist / Pinto
event2003 star_border 4.4
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A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
On the Edge of the Horizon
event1993 star_border 5.6
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Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Até Amanhã, Mário
Act like Waiter
event1994
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Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.
Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
Act like Velho
event2019 star_border 6.9
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The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve.
A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus
event2007
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Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick".
Ao Sul
Act like Cheirinhas
event1995
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Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
The Secret Agent
Act like The Professor
event2015 star_border 8.5
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An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution.
Aqui D'El Rei!
Act like Lopes
event1992 star_border 5.8
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At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty.
Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Word and Utopia
Act like Padre José Soares
event2000 star_border 5.5
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The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
O Lampião da Estrela
Act like Voice
event2000 star_border 5.5
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When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.
Assim Assim
Act like Manuel
event2012 star_border 7
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Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.
Foreign Land
Act like André
event1996 star_border 7.1
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During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
event1991
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New years special aired on RTP on 1991
The Last Bath
Act like Padre Manuel
event2020 star_border 5.4
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A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.
Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
Act like O que quer fugir para a Suécia
event1987
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Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...
Next Door: Hope
Act like Mário
event2021
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Cellist Helena is married to Mário, who criticizes her as an artist and a woman, leaving her insecure to the point of leaving the stage and becoming isolated and dependent on her husband.
Alta Definição
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 9.5
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In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Humor de Perdição
Act like Betinho de la Salette (12 ep.)
event1988
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"Humor de Perdição" was a humorous television program, broadcast by RTP in 1987
Conta-me Como Foi
Act like António Lopes (156 ep.)
event2007 star_border 8.7
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Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese 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.
Sim, Chef!
Act like Vítor Guerreiro (20 ep.)
event2017 star_border 10
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Vítor Guerreiro, the authoritarian and eccentric Chef of the uber-chic Lisbon restaurant “Divina Comédia” hires Manuel, a bumbling interviewee from Braga, in order to irritate the manager Kika.
O Fura-Vidas
Act like Quim Fintas (39 ep.)
event1999 star_border 10
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The misadventures of the two Fintas brothers Joca and Quim who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
A Herdeira
Act like Sancho Villalobos (122 ep.)
event2017 star_border 3.9
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The story of a girl created by the gypsy community but who in fact is heiress of a great empire. The woman who robbed her in the past now sees her future threatened. The return of the Heiress unleashes struggles of power and affections and a love to withstand anything.
Princípio, Meio e Fim
Act like Velho Lobo do Mar (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8.5
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Every week, five friends get together for dinner. But what these five friends don't know is that they are fictional figures. What they say and do is not up to them. With each episode, we witness a different version of that same dinner.
Último a Sair
Act like Júlia/Teresa (37 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.8
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An original and unique parody to reality shows. In Portugal, different celebrities, from different artistic areas, "live" together in a house where everything looks real, but it's not. Pure comedy and social satire.
Sara
Act like Vicente (8 ep.)
event2018 star_border 8.7
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Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.
Herman Enciclopédia
Act like Várias Personagens (26 ep.)
event1997 star_border 8.5
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Herman encyclopedia is a sketch comedic show with every episode centered on a theme, The host (Herman) and other actors play many characters spoofing Portuguese TV shows, famous Portuguese people and other Portuguese related stuff.
Thieves Like Us
(8 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5
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During an eclipse in 1984, an iconic gang of armed robbers is dismantled after robbery of the Banco de Portugal. Part of the group is arrested, the other is murdered. Two members are left together. This event is the result of an anonymous call. Who denounced them? “Racing Horses” tells this gang's story, emphasizing the individual motivations that led each member to choose this way of life. As a backdrop, the bathing area of a Portugal about to enter the European Economic Community.
South
Act like Dário Monteiro (9 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.8
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The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal.
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