Glicínia Quartin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: December 20, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 27, 2006
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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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The Crime of Aldeia Velha
Overview: Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slowly start believing that she is possessed by the devil.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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Sinais de Fogo
Overview: The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-11-03
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Agosto
Overview: Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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Poor George
Overview: One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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How Do I Love Thee
Overview: It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of me, smiling, radiant, pregnant. And there’s me, who thought he was cured of you.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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A Man is not a Cat
Overview: A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that she cares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-13
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A Fachada
Overview: Short film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-02
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Histórias Selvagens
Overview: An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a cinematographic chronicle of the rural worker in the area of Montemor-o-Velho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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Ninguém Duas Vezes
Overview: Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-04-24
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Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe
Overview: A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the conflicts between the real and the imaginary, and tells how Randolph Carter, the film's character, leaves everyday life in search of his childhood dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-01
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Far Away from Here
Overview: Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s overly protracted opening has car’s drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until the roadster breaks down. Momentum picks up at sunrise with their attempts to fix the car. A retired mechanic-turned-beekeeper with a heart condition (Canto e Castro) does the trick and convinces Figueiredo to take him cross-country on a motorbike to look up an old friend. Cochofel and the mechanic’s alarmed niece (Maysa Marta) follow in pursuit. The old man dies peacefully on the road, but Figueiredo, having wholeheartedly grasped his deliverance mission, keeps going.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Antonio, a boy in Lisbon
Overview: A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
Overview: Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptical and painful attitude...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-02-25
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Conversas com Glícínia
Overview: A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house, prisons, experimental theaters, surrealists, the encounter with José Ernesto de Sousa on the unfolding of Cinema Novo with “Dom Roberto”, Italy, fantasy, Beckett, Genet, Vitor Garcia, the encounter with Luís Miguel Cintra - a life in motion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-12-20
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O mistério da boca do inferno
Overview: The secret history of a curse upon an astrologer and esoteric initiate, who was a Portuguese poet and essayist: Fernando Pessoa.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-03-09
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