Custódia Gallego
Also Known As: Custódia Galego
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beja, Portugal
Birthday: March 21, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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True and Tender is the North
Overview: Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-30
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Forget Everything I've Told You
Overview: A tragic-comedy over a dysfunctional Portuguese family. The story of six people who love, hate, split up and meet again - Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician; Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy; Joana, the daughter and her boyfriend, almost famous and the grandfather Tobias, a shepherd, almost imortal. Six characters, six stories, one film: Forget Everything I've Told You.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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The Fascination
Overview: An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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The Murmuring Coast
Overview: During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Bela America
Overview: Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the President.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Nocturna
Overview: A middle aged woman is desperately wondering in the streets looking for her daughter. A man finds her before she does.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-28
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Clear Nights
Overview: Two siblings face their problems and undergo a profound inner transformation at a time when they both rediscover themselves. Lidia struggles to cope with her newborn baby: she can’t handle the expectations, doesn’t recognize her body, and distances herself from home and her boyfriend. Her brother Lauro works in a funeral agency. Divorced with a son, he grapples with accepting his bisexuality. Though the siblings rarely saw each other, their shared challenges bring them closer on a journey of rediscovery and profound inner transformation. The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t an illusion; the tunnel is.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-14
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The Best of All Worlds
Overview: Lisbon, 2027. Marta and Miguel are both researchers that are part of a scientific group and a couple in their private lives. Their relationship will be put to the test on one decisive night when the parameters that Marta is analyzing point to the very high probability of a major earthquake hitting Lisbon. The group splits, debating whether or not to warn the population of the possible impending tragedy.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-30
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Solda
Overview: A fine arts student struggles to finish his master's thesis while dealing with his father, an experienced blacksmith, who after visiting a contemporary art museum, decides to become a sculptor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-06-30
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Room in Lisbon
Overview: Maria always lived alone. One day she needs to rent her own room to a student. But living with another person will only add to her own loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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Father's Room
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-02-08
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Depois do Silêncio
Overview: A desolate woman struggles to accept her husband's unexpected death, but is confronted with his recurrent return to the waking world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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Adam and Eve
Overview: Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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3 Anos Depois
Overview: A woman returns. Now that the night has fallen, a storm approaches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-19
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The Dead Queen
Overview: Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-25
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O Espelho Lento
Overview: The story of Carla and Marta, the daughter who is seriously ill. In Barcelona, Carla discovers a special mirror, which is an open door to the past: it keeps the reflection for several years instead of returning it immediately. Carla offers her daughter the mirror and it will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-01
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Solo de Violino
Overview: Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Posfácio at the Clothing Factory
Overview: Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-11
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Jaz Morto e Arrefece
Overview: Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Art of Dying Far Away
Overview: Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing all their assets, Arnaldo e Barbara still have one decision to make before they formalize their separation: what to do with the turtle? Amongst hesitation and failed solutions, unintended burglaries, police stations, plastic natures and misunderstandings, a single turtle fate is postponing this couple's separation. Because they know that, when they give the turtle back to its natural habitat, their relationship will be over. Are they ready for that last step?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-08-31
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O Protagonista
Overview: With Don Quixote, by Cervantes, as a background the play is set in the backstage of a theatre house focusing on the routine of a young actor that's more of an extra - dreaming more than achieving, closer to failure than to talent he dreams of a life of glory and recognition. We watch romantic, artistic and social adventures and misadventures of a generations profoundly inept against another that simply gave up on being. A comedy about the fear of rejection with double edged swords and the tale of the knight of underachievement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-25
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The Lone Wolf
Overview: One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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A Família Ventura
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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