Marina Albuquerque
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisboa, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: November 07, 1968
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Love Torn in a Dream
Overview: A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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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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Autoerótico
Overview: On a foggy night, a blonde woman unexpectedly haunts the path of two young men in a suburban park.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-12
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Crime em Nova Iorque
Overview: On January 8, 2011, journalist and social columnist Carlos Castro, 65, was found dead in a hotel room in New York City (USA). The killer, Renato Seabra, was a young model who had a love affair with him, admittedly in exchange for favors. In December 2012, after confessing to the crime, Renato Seabra was sentenced to between 25 years in jail and life in prison. Using this case as a starting point, director Rui Filipe Torres builds a story about obsession and power between António and Rodrigo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-05-28
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Inside Out
Overview: João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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Blind Date
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, a woman receives an invitation to travel through time across the Douro, meeting an unknown person from the 21st century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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The Island of Contenda
Overview: Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threatens the landlords. A new identity arises, a mix of old and new, of African and Portuguese culture, sensual and dynamic. The songs of Cesária Évora follow this inevitable transformation. From the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-07-09
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The Baron
Overview: A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink. The inspector becomes inextricably entangled in the baron’s world.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-19
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Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
Overview: A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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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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Casanova Variations
Overview: Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to visit, it breathes new life into the old man. A movie that captures the myth of the greatest seducer of all times, Casanova, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage opera performances that unravel the tale of his adventures, his passions, and ultimately his fear of death.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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Delírio em Las Vedras
Overview: New film directed by Edgar Pêra.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-12-18
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Pineapple
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-12-18
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While
Overview: Dalila and Virgínia, mother and daughter, meet each other somewhere isolated and discuss their relationship – and the restlessness Dalila feels because of her mother’s controlling demeanor. Will Dalila finally act and try to break free?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-04
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Cinerama
Overview: Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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Fuga
Overview: Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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Ruth
Overview: This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-03
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Só Por Acaso
Overview: A bad luck that should never have happened, sends Rodrigo into a coma that lasts five years. And when he wakes up, after so long haunted by the image of the woman who shot him at close range, he realizes that life has not stopped waiting for him, without realizing that everyone is lying to him. And that your best friend is getting ready to get you into trouble again.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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88
Overview: A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-06
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Daqui p'ra alegria
Overview: Three girls from the Lisbon suburbs, Bruna, Marta and Sara, are having a bit of fun. They've discovered that people in general are prepared to give things to young, attractive and good-natured people, and they exploit this shamelessly. Francisco, a neighbour of theirs, has given up on life. He's abandoned his wife and child to take refuge far from those who might hurt him ; in effect dying. He's ashamed of this, and never ever looks at anyone. This has given him, amongst the women of the neighbourhood, the reputation of being able to tell, just by looking at a couple, how long they'll stay together. The sudden news of the death of his much loved wife, upsets Francisco's routine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-08
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Xavier
Overview: Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Alto Bairro
Overview: In Lisbon 1950, John, 13, decides to invade the neighborhood of prostitutes, nobility and sailors, starting a new stage in his life. Today this neighborhood is reflected in a scattered public debate centered on its night life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-12-15
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Lisbon Revisited
Overview: A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city. Celebrating its greatest phantom and confronting his ambiguous and pervasive sexuality, the film is spoken in the three languages in which Pessoa wrote, Portuguese, English and French.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-08-14
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Incógnito
Overview: Lúcia is a lawyer that works to help women whose the father of the relationship deny the paternity. A job she is very keen about since she doesn't know who her father is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-02-26
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Noite Branca
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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