Nicolau Breyner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Serpa, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: July 30, 1940
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 14, 2016
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The Art of Stealing
Overview: Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-06
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Contrato
Overview: Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-15
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The Crime of Father Amaro
Overview: O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Call Girl
Overview: A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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Corruption
Overview: A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Second Life
Overview: Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Overview: Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-28
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Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Overview: 16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-10
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The Immortals
Overview: Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-11-07
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País do Desejo
Overview: Roberta is a renowned classical pianist battling a chronic kidney disease. However, an unexpected encounter with Father José will forever change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-26
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A Teia de Gelo
Overview: The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee. In flight, turns out to have an accident during a snowstorm and, despite being in despair, eventually finding a home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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Kiss Me
Overview: This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-04
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Jaime
Overview: A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-03-14
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Inferno
Overview: Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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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 Mystery of Sintra
Overview: Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-03
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7 Pecados Rurais
Overview: In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
Overview: This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-03-14
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The Miracle According to Salomé
Overview: Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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O Outro Lado do Arco-íris
Overview: Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the story of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the first day of rain and sun, Carica embarks on adventure.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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O Milionário
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Overview: Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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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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Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Budapeste
Overview: José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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A Ilha dos Cães
Overview: Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Glamour
Overview: Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-27
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Orphan of the Past
Overview: After being sentenced to community service, Sara begins working with Artur, a lonely septuagenarian in a wheelchair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Overview: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-02
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Two Women
Overview: Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures... ~ FICA
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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The Botanist
Overview: Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-10-01
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O Princípio da Sabedoria
Overview: In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Night Train to Lisbon
Overview: Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
Overview: The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-05-09
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Pereira Declares
Overview: Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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Expatriate
Overview: A Portuguese American businessman is deported to Portugal, where he sinks into debt and is driven to take part in a money scheme.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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O Último Condenado à Morte
Overview: The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-05-28
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Behind the Clouds
Overview: Nine-year-old Paulo stumbles upon a photograph of Miguel, the grandfather he never met, sets out to track him down and eventually meets him, at which point the magic begins.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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On the Edge of the Horizon
Overview: Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Espião Nacionalizado Nosso
Overview: A telefilm that satirizes the Portuguese espionage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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A Vida É Bela.?!
Overview: Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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Before Tomorrow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-25
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Um Campista em Apuros
Overview: While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that contains... 200 thousand dollars worth of jewelery stolen by the two girls in Marbella.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-05
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O Barão de Altamira
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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O Diabo Era Outro
Overview: Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-11-05
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Pão, Amor e... Totobola
Overview: Portuguese fictional feature film directed by Henrique Campos.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-01-23
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Goodbye Princess
Overview: Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Vasco Santana: O Bom Português
Overview: A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-27
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Derrapagem
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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O Destino Marca a Hora
Overview: A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-02-11
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Lourdes
Overview: The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Canção da Saudade
Overview: Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares.
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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The Italian Writer
Overview: In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name "Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years ago. Lisbon, 2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei, who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan Order in Lisbon's Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a legendary mirror, "The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi", that was said to have allowed St Francis to see the next morning. On the day of his departure, Joseph, at the train station, literally bumps into Giulia, a beautiful and irreverent Italian writer with whom he establishes an immediate chemistry. Giulia tells Joseph she came to Lisbon to try to find a mysterious Portuguese singer who her father had a relationship with in Lisbon before he left to fight for the Portuguese in their colonial war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
Overview: New years special aired on RTP on 1991
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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Light Traps
Overview: Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in Alentejo, he knows that sooner or later " they" will find him, yet he does not want to flee with a new identity until he finds his lover Alice. "They" find him and he has to escape with the help of Matilde. A fascinating woman who will now give him shelter and pretends to help him find Alice. Time is running out for Mário and Alice.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-06-25
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Sarilho de Fraldas
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Genres: Comedy Music Adventure Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Malteses, Burgueses e às Vezes...
Overview: Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Laurinha
Overview: "Laurinha," the documentary, brings back from oblivion and silence the great Laura Alves, one of the best Portuguese actresses of all time. In this documentary, we get to know a woman with boundless energy and unafraid to speak her mind. We discover her life, the people she shared moments with, her family, and her loves. We also explore what motivated her immense dedication to her work and confront her tragic, premature end, marked by illness and loneliness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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Show Me Lisbon
Overview: The best way to discover a city is through its people. 'Show Me Lisbon' reveals the city as seen by thirteen locals, or lisboetas - who were either born there or moved there by choice and who are of different generations, areas and backgrounds. The result is a dynamic, relaxed and realistic portrait of Lisbon that looks at themes such as what it means "to be a lisboeta", the light, the river, the food, the sounds, the history, the ethnic mixes, fado and the city's facades. The artist Joana Vasconcelos, the musician Rodrigo Leao, the writer Richard Zenith, the fado singer Carminho, the street artist Vhils and the historian Jose Sarmento Matos, alongside the knife sharpeners, fishwives, old ladies of Alfama and the festival singers who show the city as it is lived in its traditional quarters. Show me Lisbon is the follow-up to Show me Rio and the second film in the Show me Cities series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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