Jorge Mota
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barcelos, Braga, Portugal
Birthday: March 12, 1955
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Smotherer
Overview: Vicente is an “abafador”, a smotherer who travels around with the mission of ending the suffering of those who are terminally ill and dying. Tired of living like a criminal, he does one last service but is caught red-handed by a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-06-24
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Alone With You
Overview: Another day in the life of Julio, after the death of his wife, Camélia. Since that day his life has changed. He is an old man with a lot of life experience, with many memories and experiences. Today, Júlio decides to leave his wife's ashes in their little corner, the place where they were happiest.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-27
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Um Rio Chamado Tempo, uma Casa Chamada Terra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Blood'less' Revolution
Overview: In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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The Forest of the Lost Souls
Overview: The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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A pedra sonha dar flor
Overview: A writer immerses himself in his work La muerte del payaso and becomes a hostage of impossible dreams. Between crimes and hallucinations, between the gothic nature of night and the decadence of the sand, a hopeless story is told, based on the work of Raul Brandão.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-23
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Sefarad
Overview: In 1496, King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. 400 years later, Barros Basto, a Portuguese army captain converted to Judaism, and about twenty Jewish merchants founded the Jewish Community of Oporto, in the north of Portugal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-01-15
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A Imitação
Overview: An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Surdine
Overview: In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-07-09
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Bloody Night
Overview: A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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Bad Investigate
Overview: Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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Moral Order
Overview: In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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Time of Sheep
Overview: Times are changing. A mysterious red dust has brought disease and destruction. Only the sheep remain healthy. As they become the only source of food and clothing, humans treat them like gods. But times, they keep changing. A dystopian tale brought to life in stop motion.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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The Domain
Overview: The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Uma Vida Sublime
Overview: Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-02-25
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Mau Mau Maria
Overview: Three brothers are confronted with an imposing father who avail them the heritage, identity and emotional intelligence: seven weeks is the deadline for each of them find the respect and love of a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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Stowaway
Overview: An old, rusty freighter enters the harbor on the morning of December 24th. A board brings a clandestine passenger who tries, at night, to jump into the country.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
Overview: 1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Overview: Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-05-16
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The Outlaws
Overview: In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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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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Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator
Overview: Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the longest-serving fascist dictator, falls from his chair and suffers a stroke. Returning to his Palace to recover from illness, he is no longer President. No one reveals this him: neither his loyal housekeeper, nor his hard-working maids, nor his doctor. Does Salazar want to overcome death and perpetuate his power? How can he stay sane in that hallucinatory Palace?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-02-04
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