João D'Ávila
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 25, 1934
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Portugal S.A.
2004-01-16
Portugal S.A.
Overview: The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Fátima
1997-10-10
Fátima
Overview: 1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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President's Target
1989-06-23
President's Target
Overview: The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-23
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Maria's Hours
1979-04-03
Maria's Hours
Overview: Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of Fátima. Turned over by Angela, her aunt, into the care of Dr. Firmino, an imposing doctor, she will suffer moments of despair, grace, and fear, among beliefs, phantoms, and revelations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-04-03
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Crime em Nova Iorque
2015-05-28
Crime em Nova Iorque
Overview: On January 8, 2011, journalist and social columnist Carlos Castro, 65, was found dead in a hotel room in New York City (USA). The killer, Renato Seabra, was a young model who had a love affair with him, admittedly in exchange for favors. In December 2012, after confessing to the crime, Renato Seabra was sentenced to between 25 years in jail and life in prison. Using this case as a starting point, director Rui Filipe Torres builds a story about obsession and power between António and Rodrigo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-05-28
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Tordesilhas - O Sonho do Rei
1995-01-02
Tordesilhas - O Sonho do Rei
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Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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A Fachada
1996-03-02
A Fachada
Overview: Short film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-02
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1st Time 16mm
2010-11-13
1st Time 16mm
Overview: Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-11-13
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The Immortals
2003-11-07
The Immortals
Overview: Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-11-07
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O Princípio da Sabedoria
1976-11-01
O Princípio da Sabedoria
Overview: In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Operation Autumn
2012-11-22
Operation Autumn
Overview: A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Nights
2000-09-22
Nights
Overview: The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a couple lost in drugs. Nights can be seen as the story of people who made mistakes in life, but who still continue to seek happiness. It is about the despair of hopeless lives. The characters are, from the beginning, thrown into an empty and sterile world of indifference. In this true no-man's-land, João and Teresa are confronted with their precarious existence. They are broken pillars of a love that has become silent and painful, they share everything: the house, the drugs, the emptiness and the deprivations of their lives. To make the situation even more dramatic, Teresa falls ill. João does everything to help her, betting on his love for her. He, too, an addict, knows how to ease the pain of his beloved. But unfortunately this help also requires extra money, which forces João to prostitute himself, accelerating his process of destruction and his path to a tragic end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
1993-01-15
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Overview: Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Kiss and Cry
1995-11-10
Kiss and Cry
Overview: Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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One Foot in the Algarve
1993-12-26
One Foot in the Algarve
Overview: The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-26
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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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The Last Nazi Hunter 2
2015-01-01
The Last Nazi Hunter 2
Overview: After a hard life of chasing nazis, Jacob Cohn is on his death bed. Recently, he found that one of the most bloodiest nazis, who almost killed him in a concentration camp, is hiding in Portugal. Friederich Haas was known also as the Dachau Dentist for pulling the teeth of the prisoners mouth, one by one, just for fun. Without alternatives, being to weak to go after him, Jacob sends his pacifist and shy grandson, Jean Luc to finish his last mission. Jean Luc has to go to Portugal and bring Friederich Haas' teeth to his grandfather.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Fuga
1999-04-25
Fuga
Overview: Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
2003-12-25
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Overview: France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Lourdes
2000-05-29
Lourdes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
2005-01-10
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Overview: Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
Genres: Romance Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-10
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Cold Land
1992-06-22
Cold Land
Overview: In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-06-22
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Fernando Lanhas - Os 7 Rostos
1988-01-01
Fernando Lanhas - Os 7 Rostos
Overview: Documentary dedicated to the plastic artist Fernando Lanhas
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fatima
2020-08-13
Fatima
Overview: 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..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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Off Season
1992-09-23
Off Season
Overview: The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Behind Doors
2019-04-20
Behind Doors
Overview: In the small town of Reguengo Grande, Portugal lives Bênção, known as the living saint. People come from all over the world to be emotionally touched by this saint. The only problem is that Bênção isn't sure if all this power people believe in, is real anymore and starts questioning everything.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-20
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O mistério da boca do inferno
1989-03-09
O mistério da boca do inferno
Overview: The secret history of a curse upon an astrologer and esoteric initiate, who was a Portuguese poet and essayist: Fernando Pessoa.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-03-09
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