Amália Rodrigues
Also Known As: Amália, Amalia Rodríguez
Biography: Amália, was a Portuguese fadista (fado singer) and actress. Known as the 'Rainha do Fado' ("Queen of Fado"), Rodrigues was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally throughout her career. Amália remains the best-selling Portuguese artist in history.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Deathday: October 06, 1999
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La revoltosa
Overview: Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always quarreling over trifles. However, she must marry with the fence Don Leo to help his father, a drunk player who has committed a robbery and has determined the family jewels.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-09
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The Betrothed
Overview: Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are two poor farmers who are in love, but they are hampered by the wickedness of the powerful Don Rodrigo, who secretly loves Lucia. The two run away from Lake Como where they live, and take refuge inland.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Overview: Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-04-25
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Vacations in Majorca
Overview: Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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Historia de una noche
Overview: After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spent an authentic fortune. His first meeting with the past is with Laura, an extraordinary woman with he had intense relationships. She is now married with Daniel Romero, a man dedicated to the business that, precisely in the last days, has had a money problem. Due to this matter, Daniel will have to ask Víctor for help because it knows that he can extract it of the difficulty, in spite of the fact that he does not have any sharm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-12
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Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
Overview: Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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Un rayo de luz
Overview: A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her career. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to Italy, where they live, but the flight has an accident and he dies. The man's brother goes to Spain to look for the body, and he discovers not only that his brother is married, also that his brother's wife is pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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La cumparsita
Overview: Set in the 1900s and filmed partially in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Barcelona, Madrid and Sevilla. A young lady of Spanish parents, raised in the neighborhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires, travels to act in Europe after winning a contest, she becomes famous and marries an Argentinian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Lovers' Net
Overview: Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form of gorgeous widow Francoise Arnoul. Alas, it turns out that Arnoul has a sordid past of her own, leaving our hero sadder but wiser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-18
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Fado, a Singer's Story
Overview: Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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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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Black Cloaks
Overview: The great fadista, Amelia Rodrigues, made her screen debut in Capas Negras, which took its name from the black capes worn by the students in the university city of Coimbra, where the film is set. The action begins in a tavern where a group of former students are reminiscing about their time at the university. One of the students, Jose Duarte then breaks into song, performing an impromptu fado in the local Coimbra style. The tavern owner's niece, the aptly named Maria Lisboa promptly retaliates with a fado of the Lisbon variety. The melodramatic plot then centers on the frustrated romance between these two characters, and the soundtrack is essentially a musical duel between these two different styles of Portugal's national song.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1947-05-17
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Sangue Toureiro
Overview: Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-03-07
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April in Portugal
Overview: Jackie Lane sightsees in Portugal.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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A Sapateira Prodigiosa
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-06-11
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Amália, Amá-la
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-06
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Amália
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-10-16
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Via Macau
Overview: An arms smuggler organization uses a pirate television station to spread dissention among representatives in an international conference in Portugal. A French diplomat travels to Macao, hoping to locate a sexy spy who had stayed in Lisbon.
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-22
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Vendaval Maravilhoso
Overview: The agitated and tragic life of poet Castro Alves, and his romance with actress Eugênia Câmara.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-12-05
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Las canciones unidas
Overview: Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Music of Always
Overview: Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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Vasco Santana: O Bom Português
Overview: A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-27
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The Art of Amália
Overview: Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances throughout her long career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Fado Corrido
Overview: A Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting the love of a teenager, recently arrived from Africa.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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I, Amália
Overview: A portrait of Amália by herself. Her personality, experiences, daring, songs, joys and sorrows and a journey that took her all over the world, are told here through moments when Amália crossed with the history of radio and television and public.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-07-23
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Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida
Overview: A five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-07-01
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Amalia Rodrigues Live In New York
Overview: A thrilling performance of the greatest modern singer of Fado, Amalia Rodrigues. Taped in 1990, before an excited and savvy audience at New York's Town Hall, the concert captures all the passion, romance, and power of both the Fado tradition and Amalia herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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