João Pedro Vaz
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Porto, Portugal
Birthday: August 22, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blood Curse
Overview: An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Remains of the Wind
Overview: A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-22
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Young Mr. Cunhal
Overview: The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho’s camera, in a detective-minded film, in which the early years of the life of the historic leader of the Portuguese Communist Party are explored. In between, excerpts from his own books are staged for the spectator.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-05-01
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Overview: Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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A Passagem da Noite
Overview: Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Entre os Dedos
Overview: After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-22
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
Overview: 1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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Hotel Müller
Overview: An homage to Pina Bausch.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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A Sibila
Overview: In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-12
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Dialogues After the End
Overview: Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-31
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The Worst Man in London
Overview: In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of blackmail.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-08
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Soares é Fixe
Overview: 1986, just 12 years after the Carnation Revolution. The Left Wing is divided, while the Right seems on track for an easy win, which will give them both a President and a Government. The only one capable of stopping this victory is a man who fought his whole life against Estado Novo. Arrested dozens of time, deported and exiled, he was one of the first to arrive in Lisbon after April 25st. That man is Mário Soares.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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Blood'less' Revolution
Overview: In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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A pedra sonha dar flor
Overview: A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul Brandão.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-23
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Grand Tour
Overview: In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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The Englishman's Papers
Overview: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that occurred in 1923. Through his search, he embarks on an epic tale that goes from the turn of the 19th century to the end of the 20th, in the magnificent Angolan south.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-29
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O Dez
Overview: A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Letters from War
Overview: In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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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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Colo
Overview: Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Bunker
Overview: A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-06
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The Room You Take
Overview: We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains, the nose cap of an umbrella arises from a mount of sand. Oh, Happy Days! No need to stage anything! The bulldozer is a dinosaur whose teeth and gracious neck swings by a EU flag. In the boxes, we await the audience. Sometimes, nobody comes. Lost in a symbolic show of reality, I can only watch the world's end because all the endangered species perform and a reflecting labyrinth of life stories breaks through the glass of the Economic Eating Machine. Even when the sky is falling, theatre will always happen. So, choose the right place.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-04-24
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Nenhum Nome
Overview: After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care unit. K, a 30 year old nurse, will help X during his rehabilitation. K is also 6 months pregnant. This curious detail makes their apparent impersonal relationship stronger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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The Swimming Pool
Overview: The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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Surdine
Overview: In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-07-09
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Overview: The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Overview: Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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DotCom
Overview: A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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The Other Side
Overview: Ricardo is a transvestite. After a failed attempt of suicide, he has to come back to his roots and to relearn how to live with the inspiring help of his sister and, mostly, of his nephew Vasco, who has Down syndrome.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Stowaway
Overview: An old, rusty freighter enters the harbor on the morning of December 24th. A board brings a clandestine passenger who tries, at night, to jump into the country.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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A Imitação
Overview: An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Fifth Empire
Overview: Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-09
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Vanity
Overview: Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director's world – in a story about a depressed fashion designer who falls in love with the daughter of one her tailors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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