José Wallenstein
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: October 18, 1959
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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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The Crime of Father Amaro
Overview: O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Muito Tarde para Ficar Só
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Original Language: pt
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Treasure of the Bitch Islands
Overview: The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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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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Alice
Overview: In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-28
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The Divine Comedy
Overview: In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Francisca
Overview: The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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A Moral Conjugal
Overview: A Moral Conjugal
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Inferno
Overview: Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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O Teu Sapato
Overview: On its surface, a story about a jealous and insecure man, but it takes us to a reflection about loneliness and despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-06
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Perdida Mente
Overview: The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it affects not only his own life but the lives of all those who surround him.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-06-16
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A Janela (Maryalva Mix)
Overview: An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is used as setting to the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-11
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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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A Audição
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-07-21
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A Morte de Tchaikovsky
Overview: Pyotr Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed composer of classical music who died on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg, victim of an unidentified cause. Following the process of musical creation of this mythical composer, we understand that his works do not come from where we think. It is revealed, then, that the speculation surrounding his death has a plausible cause. Suicide? Anger? Assassination? How did this immortal composer die?
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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Aqua
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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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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Sombras de Thule
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-19
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Amo-te Teresa
Overview: Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. Immediately, a strong attraction forms between Teresa and Miguel, a friend of her oldest son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-11
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Inside Out
Overview: João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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When It Thunders
Overview: The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back and lets himself drown. From the woods come Violeta and Gaspar, two strange beings, a mixture of fairies, demons and guardian angels, who help António overcome his depression. With the thunders the two characters return to their domains. And life goes on.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Clouds
Overview: Tomás is a young teenager who fights for the leadership of a small marginal group. One night, in the world that he cannot control, his fallout leads to the death of one of the group's members. Laura, the possible witness to the crime, becomes a threat.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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The Fatalist
Overview: The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-06-26
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The Death of Louis XIV
Overview: August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-02
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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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Magic Mirror
Overview: Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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The Fifth Empire
Overview: Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-09
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Night Train to Lisbon
Overview: Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Porto of My Childhood
Overview: Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-09-19
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Suicídio Encomendado
Overview: Picture yourself at home... The phone rings and they try to sell you something - the usual idiots... Only this time they're selling you a suicide, your ordered suicide. This is what happened to Luis Tinoco, a wretched creature who had already thought about dying. A comical character, with a bizarre childhood and who in adulthood is unable to be happy. Tinoco buys his own suicide, prepared and designed to match the reason for which he wants to die: love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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Second Life
Overview: Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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Cold Land
Overview: In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-06-22
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O Inimigo Sem Rosto
Overview: A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and public institutions.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Um Passeio no Parque
Overview: Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife with another woman, and their son becomes seriously hill.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-12
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Repórter X
Overview: A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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Jogo de Mão
Overview: In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a living, and tries to keep up a relationship with two women while convincing each she is his only true love. The next story is about a man who beats up his wife when he is drunk, and sells furs for a living. One day, as she is riding in the back of his truck with the furs, he hits a bad patch and she and some furs fall out. The question is, will the woman be enterprising and leave the jerk - or not? The third tale concerns a woman looking into how much control a prostitute has over her clients, and to really find out, she becomes a prostitute herself for awhile - leading to some quite unexpected situations. The last segment handles the uglier side of the life styles of the rich and famous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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Land of Storms
Overview: Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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To the Bitter End
Overview: Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Journey to Portugal
Overview: Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interrogation, without any explanations. All this occurs because the authorities suspect that something illegal should be behind her trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-16
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Desavergonhadamente Real
Overview: Two actors, four characters, one short film inside another one and a sexual tension that won't stop with the word "cut".
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Rio Turvo
Overview: A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the “swamp-flower”, protégée of a Socratic Director (and his goat Plato). In a world without women, she is kept safe from the temptations of the flesh by her strict and grotesque Aunt. The sound-track entirely played by the workers (fado and bossa nova singers) reveals parallel narratives of suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the pace of the unconscious leading to a confrontation between Man and River. Inspired by a hypnotic story by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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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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In the White City
Overview: Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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News from the Good Lord
Overview: When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-12
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Signals of Life
Overview: An approach to the life and work of Jorge de Sena, relying on the testimonies of Mécia de Sena (author of the texts she reads) and the insertion of brief segments of fiction from texts (poems, fiction and theatre) by the writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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