Maria João Pinho
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Carregosa, Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal
Birthday: August 18, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mountain
Overview: Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him only a few days to live. The imminence of death and the void that it will leave force David to become the man of the house, where he lives with his mother Mónica, who is in her 30s, and his three-year-old sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-12-31
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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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Em Câmara Lenta
Overview: Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Sr. Artur
Overview: The world of Arthur suddenly was taken by assault by two strangers. Incapable to recognize the two figures presented in front of him, Arthur is trapped in his own chair. A delicate situation, where the intensity increases gradually to it's boiling point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Overview: Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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The Invisible Life
Overview: There is a long night when Hugo, a civil servant, is sitting on the stairs of the Ministry where he works. He can’t face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in António’s house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. Hugo remembers the day when Antonio, his superior at the Ministry, told him that he was going to die. Indirectly, Antonio seemed to want to tell him something about Hugo himself. Hugo’s desire to understand what had remained unsaid between the two of them, triggers other memories from the past. Hugo unexpectedly thinks back on the last time he saw the woman he loved, Adriana, and relives once more what he feels has been his unlived life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-13
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Índia
Overview: Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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A Sibila
Overview: In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-12
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Dialogues After the End
Overview: Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-31
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Casanova Variations
Overview: Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to visit, it breathes new life into the old man. A movie that captures the myth of the greatest seducer of all times, Casanova, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage opera performances that unravel the tale of his adventures, his passions, and ultimately his fear of death.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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Wolf Child
Overview: In a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend. The legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a young peasant girl, desperate for a child, asked a creature of the forest for a wish. The desire? A child she could call hers. But the forest creature curses the woman. When grow up, the child will bring teeth and blood to the village. Years pass, the child becomes a man, tormented and persecuted by the villagers, torn between his animalistic nature and a friendship with a young witch. The boy has to find out who, or what, he is. Together, the wolf child and the witch will try to break the curse and find their place in the world. 16 years after "Coisa Ruim", Frederico Serra returns to the legends and traditions of deep Portugal.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Ainda Não Acabámos: Como Se Fosse Uma Carta
Overview: A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a loose story, memories, projects, meetings. Also because, since 1995, I have done several portraits of artists (Palolo, Bravo, Lapa, Skapinakis, Bartolomeu, Angelo, Sena, Ana Vieira and I prepare Sofia Areal and Fernando Lemos), I started to think that this is my life, these meetings , see, hear, cut, show, tease. I want, with this film continue to show what I see. [Jorge Silva Melo]
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-02-08
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A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Overview: Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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Driving Lesson
Overview: While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it's not too late to take action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-30
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Overview: The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me
Overview: “An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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Ruth
Overview: This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-03
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My Castle My Home
Overview: Guilherme is a boy with 13 years old that plays tennis, he has to see and deal with his nightmares and his own fears.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-30
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True and Tender is the North
Overview: Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-30
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Snu
Overview: The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-03-06
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Uma Vida Toda Empatada
Overview: An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Mário de Carvalho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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The Lone Wolf
Overview: One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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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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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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