Beatriz Batarda
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Biography: Beatriz da Silveira Moreno Batarda (born 1 April 1974) is a British-born Portuguese actress named as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion in 1998. She studied Design at IADE Institute in Lisbon and trained in acting at Guidhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 01, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Living Bad
Overview: A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-07
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It's All Gone Pete Tong
Overview: Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of the legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from being one of the best DJs alive, through a subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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Bad Living
Overview: In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-07
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Nothing Ever Happened
Overview: António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Alice
Overview: In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-28
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Blood of My Blood
Overview: A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-27
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The Portuguese Nun
Overview: A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Overview: Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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The Actor's Work
Overview: Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develop the most important scenes of that plot until it takes its ultimate form, in the film which results from this work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-07
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Two Women
Overview: Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures... ~ FICA
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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Night Train to Lisbon
Overview: Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Demain?
Overview: The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-16
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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Peixe-Lua
Overview: The story of a family of bull fighters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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The Fortunate Ones
Overview: Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her grandmother died. The wind that whistles in the cranes plunges us into the world of two families against the backdrop of Portugal's recent past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Lent
Overview: David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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The Murmuring Coast
Overview: During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Sita - A vida e o tempo de Sita Valles
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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Cisne
Overview: Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want to be happy. Pablo, the companion she selected from among the many who answered her questionnaire, helps her through the sleepless nights. He has no family, but wishes he had. Vera concerns herself with the mysteries surrounding Pablo's life. Vera is not afraid of the night; she is not afraid of anything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures
Overview: October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the local turkey factories. Tânia (The Mother of the Portuguese), a former worker in these poultry plants, is now married to an English hotel owner. She is the perfect facilitator for the Portuguese workers, but dreams of becoming a British citizen and leaving this dirty business behind by transforming her husband’s derelict hotels into refurbished senior citizens homes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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How Do I Love Thee
Overview: It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of me, smiling, radiant, pregnant. And there’s me, who thought he was cured of you.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Yvone Kane
Overview: After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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Doomed Love
Overview: A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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Banzo
Overview: 1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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The Secret Agent
Overview: An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Before Tomorrow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-25
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Two Dragons
Overview: Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana Zanatti) goes to have dinner with her daughter (Beatriz Batarda). Terrorised by the possibility of being turned into Chop Suey, the dog passes a frightening night, running through the restaurant and hearing the telenovela-like conversations taking place at the different tables. With the camera placed in the dog’s perspective, this short film acts as an amusing panorama of Lisbon society at the end of the 20th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Saint George
Overview: In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Colo
Overview: Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living everyday life even if the money is running short, which makes everything uneasy. Escaping from their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-29
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Beatriz
Overview: In Lisbon, Marcelo writes a novel, using the life of his own wife, Beatriz, as the main inspiration to the story. The creative process of the book takes a dangerous path, ultimately compromising the love they feel for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-04
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Em Volta
Overview: Vicente goes to Egypt to cover some news for his newspaper, but then he decides to take the investigation further, along the Tropic of Cancer, further and further away (in time and space) from home, and his difficult love life. Therefore he revisits the lands explored 500 years before by the seafarers from his own people: Egypt, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Laos, China... Eventually he must come back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-10
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2 Minutos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-18
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In the Darkness of the Night
Overview: A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-10-21
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Abraham's Valley
Overview: Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Hard Times
Overview: A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-08-29
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Menina
Overview: An 8-year old Portuguese child fled with her parents to France in the early seventies. But the Portuguese terror travels along with her, with an alcoholic father and unloving mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Senhor X
Overview: Cinema is the true life.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Porto Santo
Overview: A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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Luz da Manhã
Overview: On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Maria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Anteroom
Overview: Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film crews during the preparation for a shot. The first video assist rule is that the image one sees in it has to be more interesting than what one sees outside. Nothing is left to chance. It helps to preview the shot, organise space, arrange the scenes, move the actors and light the set. And it provides it all with a meaning depending on how the camera is used. It is the space-time before the shot, where it is sketched.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-24
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Acts of Cinema
Overview: Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-01
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Nadine
Overview: A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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The Great Kilapy
Overview: Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Women
Overview: Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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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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