Raul Solnado
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Biography: Raul Augusto de Almeida Solnado (19 October 1929, Lisbon - 8 August 2009) was a popular Portuguese actor and comedian. He was born in Lisbon's Madragoa neighborhood, and first appeared on stage there. In his long career, he developed many comic pieces that have become classics. His humour was, at the time (especially considering Portugal was still under the dictatorial Salazar regime), both unexpected and fresh. It included a lot of nonsense, and stories making fun of daily life. He often played an ingenuous poor man, whose life was neither good or bad. Solnado hosted Portugal's first talk show, in 1969, alongside Carlos Cruz and Fialho Gouveia. The show, called Zip Zip is still considered a landmark in the history of Portuguese television. He died on 8 August 2009 of heart disease.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: October 19, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 08, 2009
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Call Girl
Overview: A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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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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Dom Roberto
Overview: João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-05-30
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Na Minha Aldeia, Cerveja a Copo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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Sangue Toureiro
Overview: Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-03-07
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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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O Milionário
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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O Tarzan do 5º Esquerdo
Overview: Luisa and Manuel begin the existence of married, having only their dream and hope. He judges himself a Tarzan in the jungle of life, able to face all the threats, next to his companion.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Ar, Água e Luz
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Duke
Overview: Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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O Meu Raul
Overview: A Documentary about Raul Solnado's work and life.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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Façam o Favor de Ser Felizes
Overview: Documentary about Raul Solnado's Life.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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América
Overview: In a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who stops talking—see the newcomers alter the dynamics, relationships and aspirations of the house's residents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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Facas e Anjos
Overview: In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-03-14
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Vasco Santana: O Bom Português
Overview: A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-27
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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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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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Requiem
Overview: What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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A Garça e a Serpente
Overview: Melancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both women already married, and his life marred by problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-05-27
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Martes y trece
Overview: Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
Overview: The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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