João Guedes
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 03, 1921
Deathday: February 19, 1983
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Francisca
1981-12-03
Francisca
Overview: The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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A Bee in the Rain
1972-04-13
A Bee in the Rain
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
1976-08-20
The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Enchanted Isles
1965-03-15
Enchanted Isles
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-03-15
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Change of Life
1967-04-20
Change of Life
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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Trails
1978-05-19
Trails
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-05-19
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The Siren's Song
1983-07-13
The Siren's Song
Overview: Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-13
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O Defunto
1981-01-28
O Defunto
Overview: Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-28
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A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
1983-07-27
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-27
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Silvestre
1982-05-06
Silvestre
Overview: A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-05-06
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Dirty Laundry
2020-06-04
Dirty Laundry
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-06-04
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Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
1982-06-25
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico
1963-06-01
Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Circle of Passions
1983-07-06
Circle of Passions
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-06
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Velhos são os Trapos
1981-03-13
Velhos são os Trapos
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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