Artur Semedo
Also Known As: Артур Семедо, Artur Francisco da Cunha Semedo
Biography: Before becoming a director, screenwriter, and producer, Artur Semedo enjoyed success as an actor on stage, television, and in feature films from 1949 through 1965. Semedo spent the years 1962 through 1965 working in Brazil.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arronches, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: November 02, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 08, 2001
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The State of Things
Overview: On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-22
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The Circus
Overview: Tony, a trapeze artist, gets a job at a small circus. When a tempest takes away the tent, Tony stays for the love of the beautiful Belmira who could be a rider… if they hadn’t sold the horse. They play at open-air, sleep under the stars, scrimp and save every penny, and soon there’s a new tent to be bought on credit. But Belmira is not happy, she dreams of a real home, while Tony is fascinated by the circus. And the gloomy days are back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1951-10-24
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Nazaré
Overview: The sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. The film tells the story of António and his family, where no dreams are allowed. There is also the mourning of the woman in black wailing silently on the beach or waiting for their children lost in the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Chaimite
Overview: From the military planning to front-line operations of discover conquest of Mozambique by the Portuguese, to counter the Vatuas insurgency of 1894, when they were led by Gungunhana, a cunning strong African leader. Against the background of Marracuene, Coolela, Manjacaze, Chaimite and Macontene historical battles, two soldiers fight for the love of a coloni st's daughter.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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O Dinheiro dos Pobres
Overview: Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his carefree ways, and commits a robbery. Manuel knows the robber is Pedro, but he learned it in Catholic confession. To keep his vows as a priest, he is prepared to be arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Vidas sem Rumo
Overview: Meia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doesn't care for Ana or for the child they had together. He lives with the beautiful Marlene who dances in the bars. Gull spends her whole days lulling a doll in her arms, and she waits for her love that will rise from the depths of the sea. The deaf musician Sparrow watches over her, in his despaired love and long-held wish of becoming a sea captain. There is a dispute down the piers, there is a crime that might be just an accident, there is a bad conscience that turns sour, there is a boat full of poor wretches like a rocking lullaby, a baby that passes from arms to arms, a clumsy beggar that finds some work, a courthouse of tramps... From this expressionist account that has unexpected comical moments, the censors from Salazar's regime cut away 20 minutes that were never to be found again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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Impossível Evasão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-10-12
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Sofia e a Educação Sexual
Overview: After her mother's death, Sofia returns from a Swiss college to her family's luxurious villa, in Cascais. Through the relashionship between her father, Henrique, and his lover Laura, she will discover the complexity, egothistic, discrete and hypocrite way of life - from which there is no escape.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Pôr do Sol no Areeiro
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-10-19
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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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The Assignment
Overview: A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-07-11
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A Moura Encantada
Overview: A 1985 Portuguese language drama film directed by Manuel Costa e Silva, starring Luis Varela, Teresa Goucho and Vitorino Salomé. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1988.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-12-17
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O Cerro dos Enforcados
Overview: 15th century. D. Afonso, an old jealous nobleman, demands that all stay away when his wife, D. Leonor, goes to church to pray to Our Lady of Mercês. Another nobleman, D. Rui, sees her and fells under the spell or he beauty. D. Afonso orders his wife to retreat to Quinta do Cabril, and decides, one night, to stab his rival to death. It is then that a hanged man decides to intervene. - MOTELx
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-03-17
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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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The Misadventures of Dracula Von Barreto in the Lands of the Agrarian Reform
Overview: To the tune of "A terra a quem a trabalha", an Alentejo peasant girl is attacked by a vampire but rescued afterwards by workers and peasants armed with sickles and hammers. Filmed during the 1977 Festa do Avante, with a collective of participants linked to cinema and theatre, this film is a critique of the legislative process led by António Barreto, Minister of Agriculture between 1976-1978, which put an end to the agrarian reform occupations.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
Overview: Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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The Territory
Overview: A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-01
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A Estrangeira
Overview: The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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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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Donasvinte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Two Causes
Overview: Adriana, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, becomes pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Mr. Bento kicks her our of home. What he doesn't realize is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-11-25
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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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O Barão de Altamira
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Bárbara
Overview: Joe Valente, a luso-american, returns home with the dream of turning molice picking into a real industry. But this will cause misery for those who use the traditional methods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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O Funeral do Patrão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-01
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A Luxury Crime
Overview: Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15:30 to Lisbon a coming emigrant from France with a five year old daughter in her arms and attacks Pontius in his stronghold, demanding recognition of the daughter of sin, Libertina that he had made her "bidonville» on the city of light. Bernarda hires a private detective to obtain evidence of Pontius's adultery with a curvaceous blonde, whose dream was to own butchers, fishmongers and vegetable places in a shopping center. Pontius who all deceived and this triangle (not Bermuda), weaves the web and bore's the head of the entrepreneur. A perfect luxury crime puts the police overtime. Time passes and only after the Seventh Day Mass is brought to light when the sky was given the eclipse of the moon ...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-19
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Aqui D'El Rei!
Overview: At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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Madrugada
Overview: A young agricultural conductor, Pedro goes to Alentejo to work in a farm, in March 1974. The contact with the workers and the experience of their problems make him aware of the exploitation to which they are subject. Such an attitude is not understandable to the workers - coming from the son of a friend of the boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-11-11
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O Querido Lilás
Overview: Beladona was the greatest star, or so she thought. Careless of her rural property, she lived by night countless adventures. From one such nights in the arms of a stage and movie producer, she begot her dear Lilás. Alas, six minutes after birth, the boy was taken from her and declared dead - due to the intrigue of the producer, who didn't want to recognize the child as his. Taken into custody by a surrogate mother, twenty years after the child grew into a man, who starts his education in the very fado (folk song, also meaning destiny) tavern where his real mother is. Beladona is still an attractive woman - and drama is round the corner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-11-13
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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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A Maluquinha de Arroios
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-09-23
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Crônica da Cidade Amada
Overview: Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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Lotação Esgotada
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Original Language: pt
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