Adriano Luz
Also Known As: Adriano Manuel Vieira da Luz
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Porto, Portugal
Birthday: April 09, 1959
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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Respiro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Jogos de Enganos
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-10
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Traffic
Overview: Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Overview: The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Gesto
Overview: Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community to which he belongs. At the same time, she lives her first love with Irina, a deaf young woman who doesn't understand why he wants to leave school and his country so much. For the first time in his life, Anthony's world is falling apart. But it may be worth losing the world to conquer the universe where deaf and hearing listen in the same gesture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-23
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Black Shoes
Overview: In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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Aljubarrota
Overview: A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-11
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Blackpot
Overview: A reorganization within a crime syndicate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-14
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Quarta Divisão
Overview: The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Demain?
Overview: The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-16
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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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Lobos
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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Tarde Demais
Overview: A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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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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Lovely Child
Overview: Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Get a Life
Overview: During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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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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The Left Behind
Overview: In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair and the desire to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-01-26
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Weekend
Overview: A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-07-06
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Uma Noite Inesquecível
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-09
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Pê
Overview: Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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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 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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Lines of Wellington
Overview: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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O Mergulho
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Until Tomorrow, Comrades
Overview: Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-07
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Overview: Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. These are stories based on whatever will be happening in Portugal during the production time of the film. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events. This film will be about the reality of a disgraced country, Portugal, under the effects of a global economic crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-24
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Janelas Verdes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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John From
Overview: Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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Lost in Fuseta: Spur der Schatten
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-04
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Your Face Will be the Last
Overview: Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Banzo
Overview: 1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Before Tomorrow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-25
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Arabian Nights
Overview: Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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Camarate
Overview: In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-04-30
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The Fatalist
Overview: The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-06-26
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A Bomba
Overview: A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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Cold Day
Overview: A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that develops through characters who have for their antagonist life itself, with nothing (and everything) heroic about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Overview: In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-29
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Yvone Kane
Overview: After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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A Falha
Overview: Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Night Train to Lisbon
Overview: Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Saint George
Overview: In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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451 Forte
Overview: Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is aware of Laura's relationship with her husband and constantly threatens them to tell Armando everything. Laura and Armando have a daughter - Sónia - whose greatest defect is greediness and the highest quality to cover up her mother's romance with her uncle. The fear of the two lovers increases and events precipitate when they receive the news that Armando is about to go on parole ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Rage
Overview: Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Overview: One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Alex
Overview: The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-02-16
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O Rebocador
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-28
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Querida Mãe
Overview: The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-03-29
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Bruno Aleixo's Film
Overview: Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-23
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Field of Blood
Overview: The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-06-23
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A Yellow Animal
Overview: Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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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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Equinox
Overview: I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-19
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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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Que Mulheres Serão Estas?
Overview: A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro Cabeleira (By Flávio), which proposes different possibilities for being a woman nowadays.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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