Ricardo Aibéo
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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True and Tender is the North
Overview: Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-30
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Love Torn in a Dream
Overview: A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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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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Second Hand
Overview: Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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E o Tempo Passa
Overview: Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger actors. After all, they all ask the same question: where does happiness lies?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-10
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Peixe-Lua
Overview: The story of a family of bull fighters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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Bobô
Overview: Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-04-23
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Rending
Overview: A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Lent
Overview: David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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Gloria
Overview: Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed. Its stationmaster, Vincente, is preparing to retire. Many young people have moved out, leaving the children to be brought up by the elderly, including thirteen-year-old Glória and her friend Ivan. Glória's life suddenly changes with the arrival of Vincente's younger brother, Mauro, who has just come out of prison and has some old issues to settle. Mauro begins to charge around the station on his motorbike, while Glória's friendship with Ivan is put to test on account of her attraction to older Mauro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-11-03
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How Do I Love Thee
Overview: It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of me, smiling, radiant, pregnant. And there’s me, who thought he was cured of you.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Hands in the Fire
Overview: The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her thesis on “Reality in Cinema”. Maria has an unlimited confidence in what is visible. Her candour and her naivety allow her to see the bright side of life – such as the beauty of the landscape and the authenticity of the place, or what’s left of it. But when Maria enters the final manor house on her list, she soon realises that something is going on in this house that is not as innocent as it first seemed. The manor is truly a house of horrors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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The Flight of The Crocodile – Ruy Cinatti’s Timor
Overview: “I am totally in love with Timor!”, said the Portuguese poet, anthropologist and agronomist Ruy Cinatti upon arriving on the island. From 1946 to 1974, he led a nomadic experiment, building a lasting relationship with Timor-Leste’s people and territory. The cultural identity he sought to protect is threatened by colonial oppression and the decline of the Portuguese Empire. Rejecting these circumstances, Cinatti reaches out to the people and its tribes, documenting rituals, filming, photographing and even making blood oaths with tribal chiefs to gain access to sacred places and become a Timorese.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-16
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O Dez
Overview: A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Andre Valente
Overview: An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a curious and somewhat moving friendship between the child and a Russian migrant worker who in a certain way replaces his estranged father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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The Strange Case of Angelica
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-12-29
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Ramiro
Overview: Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his faithful drinking companions and his neighbors: a pregnant teenager and her grandmother recovering from a stroke. He would gladly continue living this quiet and somewhat anachronistic routine if events worthy of a soap opera did not invade his bubble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Apparition
Overview: A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-03-22
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Overview: Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Dom Fradique
Overview: A path for tourists on their way to the Castle of São Jorge, the Pátio Dom Fradique was once a popular courtyard where around sixty families used to live.Today, ruins of their houses are the unique remains.There, the erased memories of the old city history and the frenzy of the new Lisbon give way to a contemporary urban tale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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Bloody Night
Overview: 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…
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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Cinerama
Overview: Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus
Overview: Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick".
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-27
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Chuva
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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A Arte da Luz Tem 20.000 Anos
Overview: Documentary about Vale do Côa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-15
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Minus 9
Overview: This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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Antonio, a boy in Lisbon
Overview: A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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From Now On
Overview: Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Lines of Wellington
Overview: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Love Love
Overview: Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno's sister and Marta's best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge's friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will imprison him and, convinced that his love and his lover's desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Overview: The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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Pilgrimage
Overview: Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human palpitation of one of the greatest historical adventures of man.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Colo
Overview: Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Demain?
Overview: The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-16
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Black & White
Overview: A short-film in 35 mm, black > white stages a day in which the main character discovers that she stopped seeing in color. Written as photographer’s film, it was shot on several locations in Lisbon. It is the only purely fiction work by the author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Venus Velvet
Overview: When almost everyone in their senses (or in their powers to do so so) has left a Western European Capital of millions of people under the threat of a colliding commet, a bar stays open in defyance. Two lovers are too self absorbed but not so much so that between drinks they cannot realise the barmen's infatuation with the lost girl who thinks she's just his last plaything and keeps playing jukebox songs (American/French-Italian/American) to that effect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Silêncios do Olhar
Overview: The story of the making of "O Bobo" by José Álvaro de Morais, that lasted 10 years from start to finish.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Everything's OK
Overview: A father's journey to save his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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