João Arrais
Also Known As: João Luis Candido Serrão Severino Arrais, João Luis Arrais
Biography: João Arrais was born on September 28, 1995 in Santarém, Portugal as João Luis Candido Serrão Severino Arrais. He is an actor, known for Mysteries of Lisbon (2010), Liberdade 21 (2008) and Bad Bunny (2017).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santarém, Portugal
Birthday: September 28, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Overview: The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Turquoise Boy
Overview: Goodbyes in dark hotel rooms always use up all the words. He can't seem to describe his feelings, so he asks her to listen to a song.
Genres: Music Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-14
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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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Lines of Wellington
Overview: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Letters from War
Overview: In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Blood'less' Revolution
Overview: In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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O Dez
Overview: A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Versailles
Overview: An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief moments of clarity, she will persuade him to kill her.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-07-12
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Bad Bunny
Overview: Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-05-21
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Wake Up, Leviathan
Overview: T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding: "Not with a bang but a whimper."
Genres: Science Fiction Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Soldier Millions
Overview: A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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Serpentarius
Overview: A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-10
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Fatima
Overview: In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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Moral Order
Overview: In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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The Domain
Overview: The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Assim Assim
Overview: Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-05
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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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The Child
Overview: The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-02-10
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Sterile
Overview: In the mid-90s, while the shadow of the millennium bug and the consequent end of times can already be seen, a deeply religious family believes that the biblical prophecy that foresees the return of Jesus to Earth will be fulfilled in the womb of their youngest daughter.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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The Englishman's Papers
Overview: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that occurred in 1923. Through his search, he embarks on an epic tale that goes from the turn of the 19th century to the end of the 20th, in the magnificent Angolan south.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-29
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