Vítor Norte
Also Known As: Vitor Norte
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Borba, Évora, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: January 29, 1951
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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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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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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Five Days, Five Nights
Overview: Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-04-25
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A Hora da Liberdade
Overview: Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-24
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O Cônsul de Bordéus
Overview: This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-03
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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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Black Shoes
Overview: In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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Assault on the Santa Maria
Overview: On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Floating House
Overview: It tells the story of Araci, a woman who saw her daughter murdered by ranchers. She emigrates to Mértola with her husband and their granddaughter, who will grow up without forgetting the indigenous rituals and teachings of Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-03-03
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Breathing Under Water
Overview: What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets his friends. It's summertime and they all go down to the river where they spend their free time or even their school time. Among joints, motorbike riding and swimming, everything seems to go well with this group of friends, until the moment when Pedro and his best friend find out that both of them like the same girl. Pedro finds himself inside a downward spiral, where everything around him seems to fall apart. Like a magnet attracts the iron, Pedro seems to attract problems, from the school until his relationship with his parents. This is the story of Pedro, who by having his head being pushed down so much learned how to breathe under water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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Eclipse em Portugal
Overview: Tó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal, the hand of a friend and Anita knows the drummer for who ends up falling in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-02-20
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Tarde Demais
Overview: A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Lobos
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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Duma Vez Por Todas
Overview: Lisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-07
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Uma Vida Normal
Overview: Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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In the Shadow of the Vultures
Overview: Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-23
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The Fascination
Overview: An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss
Overview: A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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O Caso Coutinho
Overview: A lonely old man fights against the mysterious forces that threaten to enter his house.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Sans elle...
Overview: Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share the same room, the same tastes, the same bike, the same camping tent. But also a conflict principle sets in. Oppressed by his overbearing need, she decides to head for the south of Portugal, the country of their parents. His dreams are shattered; he feels deeply betrayed by his sister. Caught between his father who is preparing to retire to Portugal and his mother who refuses to leave France, he tries to work out his own identity. His passion for rock music gets him involved with his sister's former lover. By following this charismatic leader preaching dubious ideology, he risks losing his "gentle half" forever. Meanwhile in Portugal, she becomes disillusioned. Will they manage to grow up without each other?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-16
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Misantropo
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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O Meu País Não Existe
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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Your Neighbour's Wife
Overview: Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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O Leão da Estrela
Overview: The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Histórias de Alice
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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Malvadez
Overview: Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Chico Fininho
Overview: Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the figure of Chico Fininho, immortalized in the popular song of the same name. A bunch of people are interviewed taking us to Boavista - where we find him in a club. After a brief hesitation, the interview happens and we're taken to everyday situations, that can happen to any "freak" of the city...
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-04-29
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Jigging
Overview: A perfect day, blue skies and perfect weather. Zé is going fishing. On a desert lake a strange and charismatic character rents boats using an old semi abandoned trailer. Both of them are part of an infernal cycle that will end up transforming the prey into the hunter. The one who dies kills and the one who kills is already dead.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-06
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El invierno en Lisboa
Overview: Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Os Cornos de Cronos
Overview: A passion between a 42 years old man and a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-05-04
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Anjo Caído
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-09-29
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Carga
Overview: A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Overview: Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Ruth
Overview: This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-03
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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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No Dia dos Meus Anos
Overview: This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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The Policewoman
Overview: A young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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Até Amanhã, Mário
Overview: Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-14
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Mustang
Overview: Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-18
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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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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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Monsanto
Overview: Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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Ao Sul
Overview: Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-04-25
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O Miradouro da Lua
Overview: A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns to his country. When he goes to his father's address, he has a big surprise and his life will change ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
Overview: Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-04-25
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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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Lena
Overview: Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, street smart Lena, 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a father, Gorrión, and hopes to escape by getting a grant to study in Portugal. Gorrion is mixed up with local drug-smuggling mafiosi, that includes Lena's godfather, Gitano, their Portugese Cachero, and the strong, silent Milio. One day, Lena returns from her job to find Gorrion badly beaten up: The gang had accused him of stealing. Lena visits the gangsters and offers to help pay off her father's debt by working for them. After Gorrion forgets to deliver Lena's grant papers, a fragile emotional bond develops between Lena and Milio. When they set off to Portugal to do a job, events start to ramble.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-11
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Jaz Morto e Arrefece
Overview: Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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A Ilha dos Escravos
Overview: After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they even try to use the slaves of the colonies. A mysterious emissary is sent to Cape Verde to prepare an uprising. But other reasons were behind his visit to the archipelago ....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-05-08
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Shadow
Overview: Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Agosto
Overview: Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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Light Drops
Overview: Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Before the Mountains
Overview: A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-05
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Famel Top Secret
Overview: New Jorge Monte Real movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-10
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Portugueses
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Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-06-05
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