Orlando Costa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Braga, Portugal
Birthday: December 24, 1948
Deathday: August 19, 2022
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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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Ensinamentos para a Vida Adulta
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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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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Sofia e a Educação Sexual
Overview: After her mother's death, Sofia returns from a Swiss college to her family's luxurious villa, in Cascais. Through the relashionship between her father, Henrique, and his lover Laura, she will discover the complexity, egothistic, discrete and hypocrite way of life - from which there is no escape.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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In the Shadow of the Vultures
Overview: Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-23
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A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História
Overview: In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance, Lisbon is inhabited by a repressed and militarized population. Maria and António stand out in this city and surrender themselves to a submersive love. 1978
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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Histórias de Alice
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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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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The Trip
Overview: Antonio decides to break free of his mundane existence and rents a silver convertible to take his wife on a dream vacation. Everything seems perfect. Except he doesn't know the way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Two Brothers, My Sister
Overview: This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-11-04
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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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The Holy Alliance
Overview: In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Uma Vida Normal
Overview: Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Overview: Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Jogo de Mão
Overview: In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a living, and tries to keep up a relationship with two women while convincing each she is his only true love. The next story is about a man who beats up his wife when he is drunk, and sells furs for a living. One day, as she is riding in the back of his truck with the furs, he hits a bad patch and she and some furs fall out. The question is, will the woman be enterprising and leave the jerk - or not? The third tale concerns a woman looking into how much control a prostitute has over her clients, and to really find out, she becomes a prostitute herself for awhile - leading to some quite unexpected situations. The last segment handles the uglier side of the life styles of the rich and famous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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O Funeral do Patrão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-01
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Bárbara
Overview: Joe Valente, a luso-american, returns home with the dream of turning molice picking into a real industry. But this will cause misery for those who use the traditional methods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Meu Passado Me Condena 2: O Filme
Overview: The life of Fabio and Miá falls into the rut when differences, which are not few, need to be faced. After Fábio forget the third wedding anniversary, Miá decides to ask for a time in the relationship. When Fábio's grandfather, who lives in Portugal, tells him that he was a widower, he sees on this trip to the funeral an opportunity to save his marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-02
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The Pact of Silence
Overview: Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-05
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A Filha
Overview: Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-04-24
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Luísa e os Outros
Overview: The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Fronteira
Overview: 1970. To Fronteira's village arrives a new chief to the Fiscal Guard. With unshakable convictions about the application of the Law, he quickly comes into confrontation with the population, which survives with the practice of smuggling. But a passionate conflict calls into question all your values and your sense of duty, forcing him to make an unexpected and irreversible decision.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-11
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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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