Gracinda Nave
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Guimarães, Portugal
Birthday: May 15, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Vermelho Monet
Overview: Follows the story of Johannes Van Almeida, a painter who was just released from prison and wants to start his life anew, but everything changes when art dealer Antoinette, and international actress in crisis Florence Lizz, get in his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-09
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The Face You Deserve
Overview: Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-23
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Rampa
Overview: Rampa tells the story of Matilde, a middle-class prep-school girl in Lisbon, who finds herself at a social crossroads when her parents divorce and she’s forced to move to a low-income neighbourhood across town. It is just after Summer holiday when Matilde, young and insecure, returns to school – but after the Summer troublesome events, everything feels different.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-06
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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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The Hips of J.W.
Overview: Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-29
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Vanity
Overview: Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director's world – in a story about a depressed fashion designer who falls in love with the daughter of one her tailors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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God's Comedy
Overview: An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Tebas
Overview: Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his origins, departs from Paris to Portugal with a beatnik truck driver. The film is a voyage into the strange depths of Portugal in the form of surreal road-movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-01
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Falha do Sistema
Overview: In a society controlled by the SYSTEM, a Nazi variant of Big Brother limiting citizens privacy, João falls in love with Leonor, a persecuted Jew. The vigilant inspector who watched them, decided to let them in freedom, reconciling with his past: he was the grandfather of Leonor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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When It Thunders
Overview: The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back and lets himself drown. From the woods come Violeta and Gaspar, two strange beings, a mixture of fairies, demons and guardian angels, who help António overcome his depression. With the thunders the two characters return to their domains. And life goes on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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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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O Espelho Lento
Overview: The story of Carla and Marta, the daughter who is seriously ill. In Barcelona, Carla discovers a special mirror, which is an open door to the past: it keeps the reflection for several years instead of returning it immediately. Carla offers her daughter the mirror and it will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-01
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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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A Casa Esquecida
Overview: Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they make a stop, renting their arms, the necessary time to be able to, provisions made, get on the road again. Once, with the sun at its peak and a burning heat, the desert that they are crossing seems to be endless. They run out of water… in the end of the day, without any strength left, they let themselves fall near to a dried bush. Ivo stares at the moon rising, as is saying farewell and whispering verses of a poem of a lawyer they’ve met before. It is then that he sees a far light. They set their way to that house…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-07-09
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In That Neighbouhood
Overview: Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One of her neighbors, an old lady keeps on asking her: “Maybe you could get pregnant?” “Maybe…” she answers. After going through medical exams, Ana makes her choice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Wounded
Overview: Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-02-20
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Rádio Relâmpago
Overview: A man who grew up in the '80s, in the midst of the pirate-radio scene, works now at a big, modern radio station, but still holds on to his love for a mysterious female lead singer of a now long gone band. He sets himself to start another pirate-radio, now unlegalized, trying to find her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-05-28
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