João Nicolau
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Biography: João Nicolau was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He works as a film director and editor and, sometimes, as an actor and musician.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Male
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Canticle of All Creatures
Overview: An interpretation of the life of Francis of Assisi.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-07-08
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The Face You Deserve
Overview: Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-23
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Friends after Dark
Overview: In the year when cinema was paralyzed in Portugal due to lack of funding, a group of friends embarks on a mysterious expedition to see wolves in their natural habitat, but ends up being trapped in a house without much to do. The night goes by and the expedition’s main goal seems increasingly compromised until the biologist who promised them adventures shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-04
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Christmas Inventory
Overview: A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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Uprise
Overview: In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Grey and Black
Overview: The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious and determined to avenge herself, she proposes to an Police Inspector, Lucas, to chase and to find David. However, David, on a visit to the island of Faial, falls in love with a local, Marina. Maria and Lucas look for David in the Azores, they cross with Mariana in Faial and the three will discover David in his house of the mountain, at the top of the Peak. In a final confrontation, as in a Greek tragedy, Mary and David adjust the accounts that fate has traced to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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Lupo
Overview: The Italian Rino Lupo directed some of the most important silent films of Portuguese cinema. Pedro Lino develops, in Lupo, an investigation about the director, discovering one of the mysteries that surrounded him, the year and place of his death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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Alpha
Overview: What starts as an animal lab experiment leads, in the future, to the development of artificial beings capable of carrying out the most varied and complex of tasks. Before being delivered to their customers, the manufacturer develops a kind of final quality control test, supervised by a technician, where certain skills (like learning the customer’s language) are improved. This part of the process invariably occurs in a closed environment, usually a house with key characteristics of the customers home. Alpha is one of such artificial beings. He and Beta are a couple only a few weeks away from being shipped to their future owners in Japan.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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