André Gago
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Birthday: June 13, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Une femme dans la tourmente
Overview: Michèle is the new French consul in a South American country. She quickly discovers that the government is, in fact, a dictatorship. Moreover, her seventeen-year-old daughter is involved in the revolution against the regime.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-19
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Morte D'Homem
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-11-29
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A Hora da Liberdade
Overview: Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-24
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Trial
Overview: In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-10-11
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My Name Is Bernadette
Overview: Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-30
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Corações Plásticos
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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Quando o Anjo e o Diabo Colaboram
Overview: Inspired in the Play "Auto da Barca do Inferno" by Gil Vicente, the only Portuguese playwright recognized in the universal history of theater, the story of "When The Angel And The Devil Cooperate" talks about a bet: if the world ended, where would most of the humans end up? In Heaven? Or in Hell? On Earth, the Angel and the Devil come across with the story of a father, Parvo, who blames his daughter's death on Onzeneiro. While Parvo looks to get his revenge on Onzeneiro, this one tries to get rid of the murder charges by paying of the judge. They both gather with their accomplices at the same place, a brothel, without knowing about each other's presence. Here alliances are formed and broken with the help of peculiar friendships, represented by the characters of "Auto da Barca do Inferno".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Uma Noite Inesquecível
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-09
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Overview: In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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The Hunters
Overview: 1970 something. As the end of an era of repression approaches, a bourgeois family still in its bubble of power spends its vacation in a country house. The teenage cousins spend their days in indolence, interrupted by fits of hysteria. It will only take the introduction of an outside element for violence to erupt.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-07-21
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Até que a vida nos separe
Overview: "Until life separates us" tells the story of Raquel, a 42-year-old woman who engages Henry, an 18-year-old boy who is the son of her husband's boss. The relationship between Raquel and Henrique lasts only three days, but the aftermath of this involvement will be remarkable, especially when Henrique begins to relate with Patricia, Rachel's daughter. The bad nature of Henry will lead the young man to a tragic and irreversible end. And the life of Rachel and her family will never be the same.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-03
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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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Goodbye Princess
Overview: Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Der Lissabon-Krimi: Alte Rechnungen
Overview: Lisbon Attorney and former DA Eduardo Silva never got over the death, two years ago, of his wife valentine in a car crash. When he and his gypsy assistant Marcia Amaya hear crime baron Tiago Zarco is arrested having been found over the corpse of the massive pharmaceutical fraud case, she's surprised like the DA that Eduardo offers to defend Zarco, who accepts while keeping his uncooperative right hand-lawyer on, even if that solves their law firm's dire financial state. Silva seems prepared to risk his lawyer license for vengeance on the monster who had an affair with Valentina, yet refuses to look away from indications that Zarco hasn't committed or ordered the murder, but sets a risky trap for those fiends, which proves extremely difficult and dangerous.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Der Lissabon-Krimi: Der Tote in der Brandung
Overview: Two years after consorting with the wrong people cost him his job as public prosecutor, Eduardo Silva is a measly defense attorney, who works from his hotel room. Loosing a bit from her fellow-angler uncle, he gives a shot as unpaid apprentice to freshly-graduated gypsy Marcia Amaya, whom nobody would consider hiring so far, but is soon offered crossing to the office of Silva's successor as prosecutor. Their first client is common-as-muck Joana Soares, accused of murdering her beached-up husband after a public fight, without an alibi, claiming a blackout. Eduardo is countered while working out, with help from Marcia's and Joana's families, how the affair actually relates to illegal trade in medicine, with twists including the involvement of a crime lord.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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The Dead Queen
Overview: Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father.
Genres: Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-19
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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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Solo de Violino
Overview: Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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God's Comedy
Overview: An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Overview: Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Aqui D'El Rei!
Overview: At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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On the Edge of the Horizon
Overview: Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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The Stone Raft
Overview: An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-19
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Volpone
Overview: A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-01
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