Alexandra Lencastre
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexandra Lencastre (born Maria Alexandra de Alencastre Telo Teodósio Pedrosa on September 26, 1965) is a Portuguese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: September 26, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Corruption
Overview: A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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The Mutants
Overview: Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Traffic
Overview: Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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The Immortals
Overview: Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-11-07
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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
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Gesto
Overview: Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community to which he belongs. At the same time, she lives her first love with Irina, a deaf young woman who doesn't understand why he wants to leave school and his country so much. For the first time in his life, Anthony's world is falling apart. But it may be worth losing the world to conquer the universe where deaf and hearing listen in the same gesture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-23
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End of Conservation
Overview: A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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O Capacete Dourado
Overview: The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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O Delfim
Overview: A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-03-13
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Lovely Child
Overview: Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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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
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Xavier
Overview: Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Poor George
Overview: One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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Outside
Overview: Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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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
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O Leão da Estrela
Overview: The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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The Dancer Upstairs
Overview: A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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The Orange Grove
Overview: After the news of his father's death, young designer Jorge inherits the country house where he grew up in northern Portugal. Influenced by his girlfriend Ana, a successful writer, and because they have to decide the fate of the property, the couple agree to stay for a while, never imagining what that trip will trigger between them. Bereaved, Jorge is confronted with his traumatic childhood and his troubled parental relationship. Ana faces a creative block, facing the futility of her early success.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
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Live and let live
Overview: The world is not enough to cover all the misfortunes that afflict Lucas. An orphan, a loner and a troublemaker, Lucas is a moving target for all sorts of misfortunes. But things are never so bad that they can't get worse: Lucas loses his job and is about to be evicted from his home. When all seems lost, he receives a phone call from a childhood friend asking for his help. He has to entertain two influencers for a weekend in a luxurious mansion. It is in this veritable technological trap, guarded by a mysterious Englishman, that Lucas will discover unexpected secrets about his past and, more importantly, it is there that he will discover love. Danger, suspense and cocktail recipes! Romance, eroticism (to die for) and impossible snooker shots! Secret weapons, fast cars and scooter races! LIVE AND LET GO is a romantic action comedy with a licence to kill... with laughter!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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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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2 Minutos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-18
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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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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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Parque Mayer
Overview: Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Mario Pintor (paintor) is writing a play in which a new actress (Deolinda) will star as the main role, while an already famous actor named Eduardo tries to seduce this recent arrival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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Cold Land
Overview: In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-06-22
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Twist of Fate
Overview: Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-12
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Three Palm Trees
Overview: Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Um Passeio no Parque
Overview: Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife with another woman, and their son becomes seriously hill.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-12
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Meia Noite
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Quero-te Tanto!
Overview: A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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To the Bitter End
Overview: Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Eternidade
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-03-05
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Agosto
Overview: Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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A Última Viagem
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Match
Overview: Artur is an actor in decline preparing for an audition that will determine his career. Throughout the process, he finds an escape in his fleeting relationships on Tinder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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