António Melo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: March 13, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
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The Art of Stealing
Overview: Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-06
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Amália
Overview: You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth. The story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-12-04
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Filme da Treta
Overview: After having an "apocalyptic vision" in a peep-show cabin, Zezé decides to enter in the Order of the Caracolários Descalços. Tóni visits his friend, that is in a monastery. The reencounter of these old friends makes them go back in time and remember their adventures...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Zona J
Overview: Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla with him. However, the reality the two teens are in complicates their plans...
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-12-08
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Amor Perdido
Overview: A story about two people (Clara and Tó), from different economic backgrounds, who love each other, but whose love is not accepted by everyone, especially by the father of Clara, who will do everything he can to stop their love. Things go even worse when Clara becomes pregnant.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-12-24
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Do outro lado do mundo
Overview: Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the fatal attraction that she causes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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A Vida Privada de Salazar
Overview: Na fase final da vida de Salazar, o estadista recorda a sua vida, as suas opções, as decisões que tomou e as que podia ter tomado. Dar a conhecer o homem por detrás de quem governou Portugal durante 40 anos foi o grande desafio: Salazar, enquanto estadista, é conhecido do grande público. O mito do estadista estóico, convictamente religioso e assexuado tem o contraponto neste filme.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-02-08
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Uma Aventura na Casa Assombrada
Overview: The "Spirit World", a red diamond with supernatural powers, stolen five centuries before, of the hands of the last Aztec emperor, is the center of this adventure in a cursed house in the wilds of the Sintra hills. The heiress of the house, Filipa, enlists the help of our heroes in search of the precious stone, but there are many obstacles to overcome. Facing ghosts of Indian warriors, statues that come alive, bats, trap doors, secret passageways and a German fearsome killer seeking revenge, our heroes will have to gather all their strength and wits to reach the mythical diamond before it is too late.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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Submission
Overview: Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to force her husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, into Court. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-16
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Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó
Overview: Follows the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their precious Necklace of São Cajó, that's been in the family for over 3500 years and hides secrets, curses and a mythical cod recipe.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-08-03
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Inferno
Overview: Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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The Forest
Overview: Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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In the Shadow of the Vultures
Overview: Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-23
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Tudo Isto é Fado
Overview: Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Sangue Frio
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-28
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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
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Além do Sol Posto
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-05
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Orphan of the Past
Overview: After being sentenced to community service, Sara begins working with Artur, a lonely septuagenarian in a wheelchair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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The Drunk
Overview: Contemplating the failure of his life, Rogério drinks until losing control of his actions and involves himself in a bar brawl. His alcoholic drift takes him to the city port, where he falls asleep while watching passing ships. When a young woman appears in the night, seemingly running from something, Rogério offers to help and enters a nightmare he never imagined it could become his.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-30
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In Evil Hour
Overview: The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-02-02
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The Mystery of Sintra
Overview: Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-03
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Kiss Me
Overview: This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-04
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O Inimigo Sem Rosto
Overview: A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and public institutions.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Uma Vida Toda Empatada
Overview: An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Mário de Carvalho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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