Adelaide João
Also Known As: Maria da Glória Silva
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisboa, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: July 27, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 03, 2021
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Three Crowns of the Sailor
Overview: Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Contrato
Overview: Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-15
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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Overview: Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-21
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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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No... Just Passing By
Overview: Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-16
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O Recado
Overview: Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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Blarghaaahrgarg
Overview: Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest, most horrible monster ever.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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Manhã Submersa
Overview: Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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Portugal... Minha Saudade
Overview: Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives in Lisbon and writes inviting him to go to Portugal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-04-13
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A Cama
Overview: A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until they reach a beach - where, exhausted, they end up falling asleep.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
Overview: With a strong documentary element, "Nós Por Cá Todos Bem" mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling the story of a small film crew in a village living day to day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-03-04
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Impossível Evasão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-10-12
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Oxalá
Overview: A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-05-08
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No Trace of Sin
Overview: A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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Fin de curso
Overview: There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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Terra Nova, Mar Velho
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Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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The Real Bargain
Overview: The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-09
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O Desassossego de Pessoa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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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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A Noite de Walpurgis
Overview: A Noite de Walpurgis is a fantastic tale by Hugo Rocha, admittedly inspired by Goethe's Faust. The narrator-protagonist reveals a story told to him by a third person. Here the third person is an old peasant woman that the protagonist finds in a walk through the mountains, and that tells a story that in turn would have been told to her by the grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-20
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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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O Visconde
Overview: O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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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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Alta Fidelidade
Overview: Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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The End of the World
Overview: In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-06-10
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The State of Things
Overview: On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-22
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The Circle
Overview: A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters financial difficulties and finds herself involved with shady characters, a situation that leads to a mysterious murder. The net closes around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Doomed Love
Overview: A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-25
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The Holy Alliance
Overview: In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Marie
Overview: Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-31
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On the Edge of the Horizon
Overview: Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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The Donkey-Eared Prince
Overview: In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-08-29
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Just Pedro
Overview: Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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Saint-Tropez Vice
Overview: A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-06
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The King's Trial
Overview: At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Françoise had acquired through artfulness what Afonso had lost in anger in the kingdom. She had him imprisoned ( November 1667 ) and quickly obtained a papal bull from Rome to confirm her virginity and bless her marriage to her brother-in-law Pedro. Portugal's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-19
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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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A Falha
Overview: Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Ensaio Sobre o Teatro
Overview: This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-13
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Repórter X
Overview: A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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Um Campista em Apuros
Overview: While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that contains... 200 thousand dollars worth of jewelery stolen by the two girls in Marbella.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-05
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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 Diabo Era Outro
Overview: Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-11-05
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O Viajante
Overview: Abílio is a travelling salesman with as much ability to sell as he is inconvenient. He makes a stop Mrs. Etelvina's pension for business and something more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-26
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A Vida É Bela.?!
Overview: Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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The Jester
Overview: Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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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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Um Funeral à Chuva
Overview: A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In fulfilling his last dying wish, the group goes on a journey of self discovery about the true essence of friendship and life. However they haven't been together in 10 years...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara
Overview: How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Overview: Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Young Toscanini
Overview: A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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In That Neighbouhood
Overview: Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One of her neighbors, an old lady keeps on asking her: “Maybe you could get pregnant?” “Maybe…” she answers. After going through medical exams, Ana makes her choice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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Family Matters
Overview: Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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April Showers
Overview: April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-26
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Ruy Blas
Overview: Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-27
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Meus Amigos
Overview: Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten years later, they have lost all their ideals. With Lisbon on the background they discuss politics, love, culture; each of them has reached a deadlock. The camera remains still while it registers the dissolution of their dreams.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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Exit-exil
Overview: A drama of passion and social conscience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-02
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O Vestido Cor de Fogo
Overview: José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but José begins to have doubts about the "honesty" of such intense feelings of love, feelings which are too intense (or hot) to him . If Maria Eugénia is like this with him, will she be the same with other men?In the meantime, the Revolution takes its course. José, who previously had been persecuted because of his opposition against the old regime, now feels "left behind" and frustrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-09-07
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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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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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Luísa e os Outros
Overview: The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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The Fault
Overview: Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the killing of two men (a soldier and a native) by his sounding of the alarm during one given night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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Dom Roberto
Overview: João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-05-30
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The Beggars
Overview: This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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A Moura Encantada
Overview: A 1985 Portuguese language drama film directed by Manuel Costa e Silva, starring Luis Varela, Teresa Goucho and Vitorino Salomé. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1988.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-12-17
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