Paulo Pires
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: February 26, 1967
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Male
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Second Life
Overview: Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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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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Last Call, Rio!
Overview: Pedro, Kiko and David, three friends in their late thirties, travel to Rio de Janeiro to pick up the lifeless body of Mateo, their best friend from high school, who has died under mysterious circumstances. But when you arrive in Brazil, nothing is what it seems. Mateo, "the dead man", has fled, his house is upside down and one of his ex-girlfriends is desperately looking for him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Maria e as Outras
Overview: Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be happy with their lives. One day though, everything changes. Maria is forced to take care of her father, victim of a brain accident. During these days of turbulence, Maria thinks she has found the perfect man, a mysterious Star, an habitué of chat channels on the Internet. The three friends find out that cense of humour can be the key for a happy life. Internet, romance, a bachelor party; marriage, dates and some adventures are Loving Maria. A film where love shows himself with the most different looks. Love arrives when you don't expect it and goes away when you think it is safe. It can even appear in the light of a mobile computer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-29
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Do outro lado do mundo
Overview: Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the fatal attraction that she causes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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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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Bairro
Overview: Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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The Miracle According to Salomé
Overview: Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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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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A Soft Scent of Cinnamon
Overview: Valia is a young woman used to observing others as part of her work, and so reality is becoming a canvas where characters live out a kind of life. She records the same shot with a small video camera: the street in front of her apartment where there is a restaurant. Some days later, she meets Guido, the owner of the Italian restaurant. Guido is her antithesis, perfectly adapted to daily life and conscious of his own social dimension. Valia, on the other hand, lives in this two-dimensional world, separated from what is actually happening and what she observes. Valia's life changes when she discovers a small lump on her breast and she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With Guido, Valia recovers her otherness while facing her end.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-06-02
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Ein Sommer in Portugal
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-09-29
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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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Tita Cervera - La Baronesa
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Genres: Romance Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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At an Uncertain Time
Overview: It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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O Agente de Filipe II
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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Doomed Love
Overview: A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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May I Speak with the Enemy?
Overview: Madrid, Spain, 1936. The young Miguel Gila lives happily with his grandparents in a humble attic; but the outbreak of the Civil War forces him to go to fight.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-12-13
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The Death of J.P. Cuenca
Overview: In 2008, a corpse identified by the police with the birth certificate of the writer João Paulo Cuenca was found in an occupied building in Lapa. Inspired by this fact, the movie investigates the theft of the author´s identity in a ghostly Rio de Janeiro and in deep transformation. If in fiction and in crime sections of newspapers it’s common to read about people who steal the identity of someone dead to start a new life, what we have here is the opposite case: someone who steals the identity of a living man to die in his place.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-06-30
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Zeus
Overview: Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-01-05
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Alguém Como Eu
Overview: Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Magnetick Pathways
Overview: During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-25
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Alta Fidelidade
Overview: Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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Portugal Não Está à Venda
Overview: The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-21
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Blood Lines
Overview: Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-26
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O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
Overview: A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-05
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Quero-te Tanto!
Overview: A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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The Girl in the Mirror
Overview: A place where putting red lipstick gives life and a broadcast camera takes it, reclaiming lost girls in endoscopic romances into darkness, where they evaporate, inside empty haute couture dresses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-19
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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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Les Frangines
Overview: After the death of her father, the model Alix Castelac discovers that she must share the will, and the family property, with a half-sister hidden by the name of Noémie Boileau, a truck driver.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-26
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O Lampião da Estrela
Overview: When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-05-30
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Rapiscimi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-03-13
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Aniversário
Overview: The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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The Nothingness Club
Overview: Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-21
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What The Tourist Should See
Overview: Homage to Fernando Pessoa and the city that lies next to the Tagus River.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-01
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She Was Staring and Saw Nothing
Overview: Forget everything, or recover memory and remember. Let yourself fall and stop, or return to life and start again. Adrift, lost face-to-face, two women confront their fates. Is there not just one thing worth saving? Without hesitation, the desire to live, that rebellious fury that takes no heed of risks. And how do you save a world where poetry has disappeared?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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