Monica Calle
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 05, 1966
Deathday: N/A
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Casa Conveniente
2019-01-01
Casa Conveniente
Overview: Mónica Calle is fighting with her theatre company to remain an actress, a woman, in a society where the place of art is constantly challenged. She draws this strength from Zona J, a district in the periphery of Lisbon, where she has set up her new place of creation, surrounded by former prisoners.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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The Murmuring Coast
2004-09-10
The Murmuring Coast
Overview: During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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The Convent Gardener
2023-10-13
The Convent Gardener
Overview: Based on one of the short stories from the "Decameron", "The Convent Gardener" mirrors the story of Young Gardener Masetto and presents, in two separate parts, the story of a young man and a young woman who pretend to be mute in order to get a job as a gardener in a convent inhabited by several women and several men, respectively. Because the young gardeners are mute and, therefore, assumably unable to reveal the secrets of the convent’s residents, all the women living there take action to sleep with the young man just as all the men do to sleep with the young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Maria
2018-11-27
Maria
Overview: Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with José, a married man who became her most faithful client but who couldn't help her to escape the hard life. Today this old prostitute continues showing off her body through the long city's nights, though the clients are almost gone. José is still there, but he failed at what she desired the most: a son. In a very intimate and raw portray of a woman, MARIA disclosures how love and getting older can feels like.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-27
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When the Waves Are Gone
2023-08-16
When the Waves Are Gone
Overview: Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, is at a deep moral crossroads. He is a first-hand witness of the murderous anti-drug campaign conducted by his force, his anxiety and guilt triggering a severe skin disease. As he tries to heal, a dark past haunts him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-16
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The Social Division of Labor According to Adam Smith
2011-01-01
The Social Division of Labor According to Adam Smith
Overview: Five workers on an assembly line at a large company based in an airport challenge the impossibility of changing the social division of labor, carried out in accordance with the classical principles of specialization and segmentation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Grey and Black
2015-10-27
Grey and Black
Overview: The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious and determined to avenge herself, she proposes to an Police Inspector, Lucas, to chase and to find David. However, David, on a visit to the island of Faial, falls in love with a local, Marina. Maria and Lucas look for David in the Azores, they cross with Mariana in Faial and the three will discover David in his house of the mountain, at the top of the Peak. In a final confrontation, as in a Greek tragedy, Mary and David adjust the accounts that fate has traced to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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Fado, Major and Minor
1995-03-29
Fado, Major and Minor
Overview: Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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Casa de Lava
1995-02-10
Casa de Lava
Overview: The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Insert
2010-01-01
Insert
Overview: The film INSERT was conceived has part of MEMOGRAMA by Filipa César, an installation that approaches the history of Castro Marim, a village in the southeast of Portugal, known for salt production and as a location for banishment and forced labour. The translation of sin into salt. The film INSERT creates staged images on the landscape of this place and offers a set for the announcement of a forbidden encounter.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Chuva
1999-01-01
Chuva
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Us
2003-11-28
Us
Overview: Francisco just got out of prison after a six year sentence and is now a free man. He wants to change, and after a few days sleeping in the subway tunnels, and some small jobs, he finally gets a room on a cheap hotel. He changes his looks, gets a job, lives his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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Boa Alma
2015-02-03
Boa Alma
Overview: Luís Mário Lopes wrote the solo A Boa Alma for Mónica Calle in 2015, based on the works of Bertolt Brecht marking the departure of Casa Conveniente from Cais do Sodré and their arrival in the new venue in zona J, Chelas. The original score is by JP Simões.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-02-03
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Antes Que o Tempo Mude
2003-01-01
Antes Que o Tempo Mude
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Disquiet
2010-09-28
Disquiet
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-28
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Veneno Cura
2008-10-23
Veneno Cura
Overview: In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Here on Earth
1993-09-09
Here on Earth
Overview: Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a great deal, and that make it impossible for him to bear human society. His wife (Jessica Weiss) is thoroughly put out by this radically changed behavior in her formerly good husband, but though she considers leaving him, she stays by his side. Deep in the mountains, Cecelia (Rita Dias), a devout, pure young cowherd, has been brutally raped by an old man. Her boyfriend (Pedro Hestnes) has killed the rapist, and fled the area. As a result of the rape, Cecelia is pregnant. One day, while driving in the mountains, Miguel gives Cecelia's boyfriend a ride. The two of them chance upon her sitting amid the rocks with her infant baby.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-09-09
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Far Away from Here
1994-04-29
Far Away from Here
Overview: Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s overly protracted opening has car’s drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until the roadster breaks down. Momentum picks up at sunrise with their attempts to fix the car. A retired mechanic-turned-beekeeper with a heart condition (Canto e Castro) does the trick and convinces Figueiredo to take him cross-country on a motorbike to look up an old friend. Cochofel and the mechanic’s alarmed niece (Maysa Marta) follow in pursuit. The old man dies peacefully on the road, but Figueiredo, having wholeheartedly grasped his deliverance mission, keeps going.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Morning Interim
2016-05-25
Morning Interim
Overview: The hidden agenda of a philanthropic organization is revealed through the transgressive behavior of those associated with it.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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Absurdistan
2008-01-20
Absurdistan
Overview: An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-20
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