Pedro Efe
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Elvas, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: November 07, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Jaime
Overview: A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-03-14
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The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
Overview: Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Fátima
Overview: 1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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O Tenente
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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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
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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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L'homme au double visage
Overview: At gunpoint, a plastic surgeon must operate on a criminal to escape the police. But when the criminal returns for treatment, the doctor plans to take revenge on his unfaithful wife.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-08
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A Man is not a Cat
Overview: A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that she cares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-13
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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 Meu Avô
Overview: Young Francisco is having a fun time spending the summer with his grandparents until grandpa loses his wallet. Seeing the predicament this is causing, Francisco decides to help his grandparents out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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O Mal-Amado
Overview: The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short lived because his female boss makes him her lover. He longs for the coffee shops, and the companions of old, but he doesn't get true love from anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-05-03
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Voltar
Overview: Voltar is the short story of a man that returns from prison to find the woman that he used to love. The movie was made for RTP (the Portuguese National TV).
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Laços de Sangue
Overview: Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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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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Impossible Love
Overview: Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-12-24
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The House of the Spirits
Overview: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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The Killers
Overview: "Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of spies.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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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
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Operation Autumn
Overview: A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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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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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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A Estrangeira
Overview: The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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Pereira Declares
Overview: Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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4 Hearts
Overview: Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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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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Past and Present
Overview: This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-02-27
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The Jew
Overview: The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-16
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Bad
Overview: Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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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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Runaways
Overview: Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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The Great Mystical Circus
Overview: The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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Five Days, Five Nights
Overview: Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-04-25
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Matar Saudades
Overview: Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Liberdade para José Diogo
Overview: The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor driver, kills his boss, Columbano Líbano Monteiro, after being dismissed from his job, when he claimed his right to work. He is imprisoned in Beja, Alentejo, and he is freed until prossecution. The courts are reluctant to judge him, because of the social unrest and the political aid Diogo is receiving from trade unions and political parties. A crowd will disrupt the court, in Tomar, and conduct a popular judgement in the hall of the tribunal, deciding to free Diogo, and condemning the boss, posthumously, for dismissing his employee and attacking him. The case became a law case study since then.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-02
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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
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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
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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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Lives
Overview: Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-11
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Fuga
Overview: Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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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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A Noiva
Overview: A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-06-27
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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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Land of Storms
Overview: Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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In the White City
Overview: Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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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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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
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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
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Pax
Overview: Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only knows that the recipient's name is João. When she meets an old prostitute, Esmeralda, the two join forces and begin cruising the town at night, across the streets and the local bars, meeting Lisbon's unconventional night fauna, to try to find João.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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