João Cachola
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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The Smotherer
Overview: Vicente is an “abafador”, a smotherer who travels around with the mission of ending the suffering of those who are terminally ill and dying. Tired of living like a criminal, he does one last service but is caught red-handed by a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-06-24
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Sombras Brancas
Overview: At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated
Overview: On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. The man who stared at him that afternoon and demanded surrender, guaranteeing his safety, had just led Santarém’s Artillery 1 regiment in taking the capital. Without firing a single shot, he managed to overthrow a regime that was over 48 years old. That was the last step to take and he took it, without hesitation, becoming the unavoidable figure of the day that marked the beginning of democracy in Portugal
Genres: Drama War Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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The Convent Gardener
Overview: Based on one of the short stories from the "Decameron", "The Convent Gardener" mirrors the story of Young Gardener Masetto and presents, in two separate parts, the story of a young man and a young woman who pretend to be mute in order to get a job as a gardener in a convent inhabited by several women and several men, respectively. Because the young gardeners are mute and, therefore, assumably unable to reveal the secrets of the convent’s residents, all the women living there take action to sleep with the young man just as all the men do to sleep with the young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Tommy Guns
Overview: In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
Genres: History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Name Above Title
Overview: The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star.
Genres: Horror Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-05
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Ana Takes a Stand
Overview: Good girl Ana learns a lesson in selfishness when her generous nature is put to the test by an old friend.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Andar Com Fé
Overview: On a sunny afternoon in Lisbon, Manel leaves home to look for work. He comes across an old church and remembers his late friend Pedro. The history of this space intertwines with Manel's emotional journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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Apparition
Overview: A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-03-22
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Amadeo
Overview: Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Overview: In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-29
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Wild is the Wind
Overview: A depressed singer works on a song just as she's leaving her old band and starts losing her voice.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-02-06
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Bem Bom
Overview: It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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After Dance – A Concert Film
Overview: A large, time-worn house sits on a towering, untouchable pedestal. Ressaca Bailada – Filme Concerto follows individuals as they navigate their relationship with freedom, unity, and isolation within this setting. Celebrating tradition while confronting and questioning it, all against a backdrop of music that shapes the journey.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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Olhos, Olhos, Nariz, Boca
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Umbigo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-09
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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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