Norberto Barroca
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marinha Grande, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: November 05, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 02, 2020
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Gloria
Overview: Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed. Its stationmaster, Vincente, is preparing to retire. Many young people have moved out, leaving the children to be brought up by the elderly, including thirteen-year-old Glória and her friend Ivan. Glória's life suddenly changes with the arrival of Vincente's younger brother, Mauro, who has just come out of prison and has some old issues to settle. Mauro begins to charge around the station on his motorbike, while Glória's friendship with Ivan is put to test on account of her attraction to older Mauro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-11-03
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O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Overview: O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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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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Passagem por Lisboa
Overview: Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of Windsor, Primo de Rivera, Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, Walter Schellenberg and Juan Garcia are often together in the luxury hotels and night-clubs. Espionage and crime go hand in hand, despite of, or encouraged by, the Portuguese secret police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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The Holy Alliance
Overview: In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Overview: A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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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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Poor George
Overview: One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
Overview: 1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Overview: On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-04-30
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