Catarina Avelar
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: January 09, 1939
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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All Is Well
Overview: As the summer of 1980 ends, 16 and 17 year old sisters Maria and Alda flee to Lisbon from Angola?s civil war. In the hands of fate, they must learn to live without money in a foreign city. On the edge of the law, the two have to grow up and become women. When the problems are already overwhelming, news comes that makes them unbearable. This blow, however, will give them the push to decide their futures: Alda is going to France and Maria back to Angola in search of her roots.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-12-10
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The Curse of Marialva
Overview: A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-11-14
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My Fair Lady: Minha Linda Senhora
Overview: The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, at the head of a luxury cast of more than 70 actors, singers, dancers and musicians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Blood'less' Revolution
Overview: In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Paraíso Perdido
Overview: Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Histórias de Alice
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Overview: In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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Vidas a Crédito
Overview: Sofia is a big spender so she frequently abuses of the credit card. When her husband is fired, she is forced to change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-29
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Gigola
Overview: George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-06
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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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A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses
Overview: The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-24
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Aqui D'El Rei!
Overview: At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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As Ruínas no Interior
Overview: During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-21
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Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator
Overview: Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the longest-serving fascist dictator, falls from his chair and suffers a stroke. Returning to his Palace to recover from illness, he is no longer President. No one reveals this him: neither his loyal housekeeper, nor his hard-working maids, nor his doctor. Does Salazar want to overcome death and perpetuate his power? How can he stay sane in that hallucinatory Palace?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-02-04
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