
Birthday:
03-12-1946
(78 years)
Birthplace:
Lisbon, Portugal
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My Name Is Bernadette
Act like Josephine Doucet
event2011 star_border 7.5
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Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
Um Filme em Forma de Assim
event2022 star_border 4.3
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Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
Três Crimes, Três Curtas
event2023
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S.Ó.S.”, by Bruno Soares, “Céu Aberto ou Espaço Limitado”, by José António Loureiro, and “Para Cá do Marão”, by José Mazeda, are three short films, all first works by their directors , shown as if they were a single film. What they have in common is the fact that they deal with crimes. Bruno Soares' film, with Marco Costa, Joel Branco and Carmen Santos, deals with a robbery in Lisbon, with the owner of the house confusing the robber with his son. The one by José António Loureiro, with Joaquim Nicolau, is about a man who leaves prison and has difficulty adapting. Finally, José Mazeda's, with João Lagarto, focuses on a dispute in Trás-os-Montes between a local and a Galician.
After Everything
Act like Aging Woman
event2023 star_border 6.9
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Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realizes he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.
The Marginalized
Act like Paysanne
event2023 star_border 6.6
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Michèle, in her fifties, is homeless and lives at Orly airport where she leads a hard and lonely life. Theo, a mentally handicapped young man, works at the airport and lives with his "Auntie" who has been overprotecting him since he was abandoned by his mother. When Michèle decides to find her son in Lisbon, Theo naively agrees to drive her there, but what she doesn't know is that he only has a car without a license... They then embark on an adventure on the country roads, making us follow people we don't look at, on roads we never take.
The Home Fairy
Act like Alice
event2022 star_border 6.4
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Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence and youth will clash with the authoritarianism and inhumanity of the director. For the elderly who live in the nursing home, Vera is a breath of fresh air that little by little will change their lives, becoming the true home fairy…
A Man is not a Cat
Act like Mimi
event2001
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A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that she cares.
O Meu Avô
event2012
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Young Francisco is having a fun time spending the summer with his grandparents until grandpa loses his wallet. Seeing the predicament this is causing, Francisco decides to help his grandparents out.
Fin de curso
Act like Dulce
event2005 star_border 5
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There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
Maria e as Outras
Act like Vitória
event2004 star_border 3
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Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be happy with their lives. One day though, everything changes. Maria is forced to take care of her father, victim of a brain accident. During these days of turbulence, Maria thinks she has found the perfect man, a mysterious Star, an habitué of chat channels on the Internet. The three friends find out that cense of humour can be the key for a happy life. Internet, romance, a bachelor party; marriage, dates and some adventures are Loving Maria. A film where love shows himself with the most different looks. Love arrives when you don't expect it and goes away when you think it is safe. It can even appear in the light of a mobile computer.
The Strange Case of Angelica
Act like Mulher do Fotógrafo
event2010 star_border 6.6
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A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.
Under My Skin
Act like Raquel Abecassis
event2011 star_border 6.4
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On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him.
Florbela
Act like Henriqueta
event2012 star_border 5
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Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
Behind the Clouds
Act like Irene
event2007 star_border 5.8
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Nine-year-old Paulo stumbles upon a photograph of Miguel, the grandfather he never met, sets out to track him down and eventually meets him, at which point the magic begins.
Querida Mãe
Act like Dona Elisa
event2001
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The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
Amadeo
Act like Lúcia (Anos 50)
event2023 star_border 6.6
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Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
event1979
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The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren’t included on the show.
Estrangement
Act like Costureira
event2014
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When an actor assists to the premiere of the experimental B-movie he stars in, film blends with real life, turning it into an actual thriller.
Lourdes
event2000 star_border 6.8
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The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Tentação
Act like Maria
event1997 star_border 6.6
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Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the "black sheep" of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.
The Great Kilapy
Act like Mãe de Joãozinho (voice)
event2012 star_border 7.3
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Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
Passagem por Lisboa
Act like Mary Espírito Santo
event1994 star_border 3.5
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Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of Windsor, Primo de Rivera, Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, Walter Schellenberg and Juan Garcia are often together in the luxury hotels and night-clubs. Espionage and crime go hand in hand, despite of, or encouraged by, the Portuguese secret police.
Aniversário
Act like Manuela
event2000
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The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
News from the Good Lord
event1996 star_border 7.3
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When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.
The Mystery of Sintra
Act like D. Carla
event2007 star_border 5.4
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Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
Fatima
event2020 star_border 7.2
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In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Incógnito
event2012
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Lúcia is a lawyer that works to help women whose the father of the relationship deny the paternity. A job she is very keen about since she doesn't know who her father is.
Why Do You Hate Your Brother?
event2020
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Clara and Vítor are two brothers with a troubled relationship, marked by disagreement about the direction to take in relation to the family relic. The relationship will be more shaken by the sudden appearance of an unexpected visitor called Luís.
No le busques tres pies...
event1968
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The lieutenant Miguel Aguirre's dream is to become a military pilot, but a dispute with a superior is about to make him abandon his studies, had it not been for the intervention of his mother and his girlfriend, Luisa. Miguel's first destination is Granada Air Base. There he meets an attractive young woman, Patricia, whom he takes for an American tourist.
The Uncertainty Principle
Act like Joana
event2002 star_border 5.2
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Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Operation Portugal
Act like Avo Lena
event2021 star_border 5
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Hakim, 35, a friendly neighborhood cop, must infiltrate the Portuguese community for the purpose of an investigation. But can one become Portuguese in three days? Especially when we know that Hakim is a walking disaster at undercover operations. His clumsiness and bad luck turn his many infiltrations into cataclysms. The case is clearly too big for him. Quickly trapped between his feelings and his mission, Hakim, who lives alone with his mother, will discover a community, but also a family.
Mulheres
Act like Quitéria Rodrigues (146 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.8
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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.
Para Sempre
Act like Natália Lampreia (146 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.5
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Pedro is an enigmatic man with only one goal: to get Clara back, his first and only love. However, this meeting is almost impossible. Above all, because she is engaged to his brother Lourenço, the man who Pedro will save. And what will Lourenço do when he realizes that his savior may, after all, steal everything from him?
Pai à Força
Act like Rosário (52 ep.)
event2009
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A bachelor is taken by surprise when he encounters some special children.
Os Nossos Dias
Act like Otília Gouveia (1 ep.)
event2013
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Os Nossos Dias follows the daily lives of its many characters. Among the typical soap opera-esque romances featured in the show, significant social-awareness issues have also been featured, i.e., domestic violence, living with HIV, and homophobia.
Doomed Love
(6 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.3
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A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Ballet Rose
Act like Dra. Manuela (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 8
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When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Nunca Digas Adeus
Act like Rosarinho (182 ep.)
event2001
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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.
The Spy
Act like Fernanda de Castro (8 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.5
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The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.
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