Henrique Viana
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: June 29, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 04, 2007
Popularity:
Known For:
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
Popularity:
Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
Hard Times
Overview: A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-08-29
Popularity:
Recollections of the Yellow House
Overview: Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-12
Popularity:
Trial
Overview: In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-10-11
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
A Portuguese Farewell
Overview: In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-04-16
Popularity:
Here on Earth
Overview: Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a great deal, and that make it impossible for him to bear human society. His wife (Jessica Weiss) is thoroughly put out by this radically changed behavior in her formerly good husband, but though she considers leaving him, she stays by his side. Deep in the mountains, Cecelia (Rita Dias), a devout, pure young cowherd, has been brutally raped by an old man. Her boyfriend (Pedro Hestnes) has killed the rapist, and fled the area. As a result of the rape, Cecelia is pregnant. One day, while driving in the mountains, Miguel gives Cecelia's boyfriend a ride. The two of them chance upon her sitting amid the rocks with her infant baby.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-09-09
Popularity:
Rosa Negra
Overview: Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-06-25
Popularity:
Duma Vez Por Todas
Overview: Lisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-07
Popularity:
Sinais de Fogo
Overview: The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-11-03
Popularity:
Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss
Overview: A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-06-06
Popularity:
A Bomba
Overview: A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-04
Popularity:
Ballad of Dog Beach
Overview: In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-03-12
Popularity:
Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Overview: Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-31
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Requiem for a Daffodil
Overview: Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Popularity:
House of Ghosts
Overview: Professor Hermes conducts a research on fear, for which he passes contract with a patient to live a supposedly empty mansion. He's counting on his assistant Chico Mota to play a phantom, but soon comes about that there are phantoms (plural) in there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-06
Popularity:
Clouds
Overview: Tomás is a young teenager who fights for the leadership of a small marginal group. One night, in the world that he cannot control, his fallout leads to the death of one of the group's members. Laura, the possible witness to the crime, becomes a threat.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-01-24
Popularity:
A Fuga
Overview: In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-09
Popularity:
April Captains
Overview: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
Popularity:
Blood
Overview: Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-12-07
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Longe da Vista
Overview: In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-02
Popularity:
451 Forte
Overview: Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is aware of Laura's relationship with her husband and constantly threatens them to tell Armando everything. Laura and Armando have a daughter - Sónia - whose greatest defect is greediness and the highest quality to cover up her mother's romance with her uncle. The fear of the two lovers increases and events precipitate when they receive the news that Armando is about to go on parole ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Overview: One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-12
Popularity:
No Dia dos Meus Anos
Overview: This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-08-21
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Guardian Angel
Overview: Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Popularity:
Eternidade
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-03-05
Popularity:
O Lampião da Estrela
Overview: When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-05-30
Popularity:
Goodbye Princess
Overview: Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-05-01
Popularity:
Antes a Sorte Que Tal Morte
Overview: Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-17
Popularity:
O Destino Marca a Hora
Overview: A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-02-11
Popularity:
A Luxury Crime
Overview: Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15:30 to Lisbon a coming emigrant from France with a five year old daughter in her arms and attacks Pontius in his stronghold, demanding recognition of the daughter of sin, Libertina that he had made her "bidonville» on the city of light. Bernarda hires a private detective to obtain evidence of Pontius's adultery with a curvaceous blonde, whose dream was to own butchers, fishmongers and vegetable places in a shopping center. Pontius who all deceived and this triangle (not Bermuda), weaves the web and bore's the head of the entrepreneur. A perfect luxury crime puts the police overtime. Time passes and only after the Seventh Day Mass is brought to light when the sky was given the eclipse of the moon ...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-19
Popularity:
Women
Overview: Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-17
Popularity:
O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Overview: O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-01
Popularity:
O Querido Lilás
Overview: Beladona was the greatest star, or so she thought. Careless of her rural property, she lived by night countless adventures. From one such nights in the arms of a stage and movie producer, she begot her dear Lilás. Alas, six minutes after birth, the boy was taken from her and declared dead - due to the intrigue of the producer, who didn't want to recognize the child as his. Taken into custody by a surrogate mother, twenty years after the child grew into a man, who starts his education in the very fado (folk song, also meaning destiny) tavern where his real mother is. Beladona is still an attractive woman - and drama is round the corner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-11-13
Popularity:
Malteses, Burgueses e às Vezes...
Overview: Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-04-11
Popularity:
A Maluquinha de Arroios
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-09-23
Popularity:
Amok
Overview: Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Asia. In this drama, based on a story by Stefan Zweig, Dr. Steiner (Andrzej Seweryn) was caught with his fingers in the till at a German hospital. Rather than prosecute him, they gave him the option of emigrating elsewhere. He chose to serve at a clinic in a remote part of Portuguese Goa. He has been on his best behavior for years, but when the beautiful wife (Fanny Ardant) of a diplomat comes to him asking for an abortion, he is tempted to ask for sexual favors in return, and his life swiftly goes out of control.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-10-09
Popularity:
La Lettre Volèe
Overview: Ruy Guerra's adaptation for French television of Edgar Allan Poe's short story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-07
Popularity: