Virgílio Castelo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: February 26, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Pau Preto
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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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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Doomed Love
Overview: A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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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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Homo Verum
Overview: In 1894, Gabriel, an ambitious medicine graduate, spends his summer learning from the renowned Doctor Fidalgo in his isolated Mansion. Upon developing a lustful admiration for Fidalgo's wife, the young doctor is forced to break his morals.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera
Overview: Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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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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Bairro
Overview: Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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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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A Passagem da Noite
Overview: Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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O Outro Lado da Mentira
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-07-13
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Cold Phosphorus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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Star Crossed
Overview: Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-04
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Fin de curso
Overview: There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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The Satin Slipper
Overview: During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Overview: Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-01-27
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O Fim da Inocência
Overview: Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-30
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Meia Noite
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Donkey-Eared Prince
Overview: In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-08-29
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Rapiscimi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-03-13
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Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Overview: Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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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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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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St. Louis
Overview: Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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Contactos 2.0
Overview: A man downloads a mobile app that gives terrible power over his contacts.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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True and Tender is the North
Overview: Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-30
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Terra Nova
Overview: Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the way, he has to face storms, crew revolt and deal with the best and the worst of humanity when tested in extreme circumstances.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-19
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Lives
Overview: Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-11
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The Jester
Overview: Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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Quarta Divisão
Overview: The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Camarate
Overview: In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-04-30
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A Girl in Summer
Overview: It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-12-11
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Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
Overview: Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-06
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Crónica Feminina
Overview: Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-03-28
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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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Teorema de Pitágoras
Overview: João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he meets Ana. That girl will change his life and the way he sees the relationships between men and women, but not before a "little problem" called Sofia - a TV star in the movie - come into their relationship
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-27
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Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros
Overview: The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Egas’ Ego
Overview: Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-31
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