Luís Santos
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: August 03, 1908
Deathday: July 25, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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President's Target
Overview: The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-23
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Ballad of Dog Beach
Overview: In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-03-12
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Brandos Costumes
Overview: A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-18
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A Força do Atrito
Overview: Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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Paraíso Perdido
Overview: Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Via Macau
Overview: An arms smuggler organization uses a pirate television station to spread dissention among representatives in an international conference in Portugal. A French diplomat travels to Macao, hoping to locate a sexy spy who had stayed in Lisbon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-27
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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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Blood
Overview: Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-12-07
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The Vows
Overview: The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unusual vow of celibacy and a gang of gypsies who are terrorizing their village. The film highlights many ancient religious traditions still current in these regions, as the villagers, devout Catholics, support the gypsy con-men by buying religious relics from them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-06-16
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O Paquete
Overview: A broke Count awaits for a bot that never comes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Velhos são os Trapos
Overview: Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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A True and Faithful Account
Overview: The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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