Vasco Santana
Also Known As: Vasco António Rodrigues Santana
Biography: Vasco António Rodrigues Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema. He already had a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa, in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: January 29, 1898
Deathday: June 13, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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O Comissário de Polícia
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-01-21
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A Song of Lisbon
Overview: Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1933-11-07
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O Costa d'África
Overview: Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he has been lies to his uncle all the time. All goes well. But, Costa decides to prolong his stay for two weeks...
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-09-19
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The Courtyard of the Ballads
Overview: A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
Genres: Music Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1942-01-23
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The Tyrannical Father
Overview: While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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Fado, a Singer's Story
Overview: Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Ribatejo
Overview: It is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the arenas of bulls.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-09-13
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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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Famalicão
Overview: Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1941-01-27
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O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-02
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O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-02
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O Zé Analfabeto Faz Exame
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Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-05
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O Zé já não é Analfabeto
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Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-06
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Confissões de um Analfabeto
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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O Zé Analfabeto nos CTT
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Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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O Zé Analfabeto na Vida Corrente
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Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-01-03
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Camões
Overview: The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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Eram Duzentos Irmãos
Overview: A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter the navy. A girl accepts to show a fake love interest in him as part of the plan, and ends up really enamoured.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Lisbon
Overview: For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems challenging enough, but when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife, Sylvia, he realizes his mission comes with a startling catch: Not only must he rescue this man, he must bring him back from the dead.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
Overview: Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port town – Lisbon, from the old district around Saint George's Castle down to the docks and the 'Sagres' on the Tagus river, to the new commercial districts.
Genres: Documentary Comedy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1930-04-01
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