António Fonseca
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santo Tirso, Portugal
Birthday: October 14, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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Jogos de Enganos
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-10
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Primeira Obra
Overview: Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-30
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Florbela
Overview: Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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8816 Versos
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated
Overview: On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. The man who stared at him that afternoon and demanded surrender, guaranteeing his safety, had just led Santarém’s Artillery 1 regiment in taking the capital. Without firing a single shot, he managed to overthrow a regime that was over 48 years old. That was the last step to take and he took it, without hesitation, becoming the unavoidable figure of the day that marked the beginning of democracy in Portugal
Genres: Drama War Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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John From
Overview: Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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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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Pê
Overview: Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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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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Star Crossed
Overview: Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-04
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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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Sombras Brancas
Overview: At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Podia Ter Esperado por Agosto
Overview: Xavier, a village boy, falls for Laura, neighbor's granddaughter who visits her grandfather annually. Despite flirting at summer dances, Xavier believes he has no chance with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-07-18
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Histórias de Alice
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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The City and The Sun
Overview: A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it becomes fierce, and like death, she cannot look it in the eye - only to the shadows around her
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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Blood Lines
Overview: Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-26
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Cães Raivosos
Overview: A director is trying to stage the play “The Jew of Linz”, but his dementia and delirium can’t take the production past rehearsals. The venue cancels the play and the director and his leading man go on an odyssey where they can’t distinguish life from fiction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-09
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Invisible Life
Overview: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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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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Cinerama
Overview: Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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Nzinga, Queen of Angola
Overview: In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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The Mutants
Overview: Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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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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Gigola
Overview: George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-06
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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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O Capacete Dourado
Overview: The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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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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Crónica Parisiense
Overview: Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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O Último Condenado à Morte
Overview: The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-05-28
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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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A Imitação
Overview: An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Anita Garibaldi
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-16
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Querença
Overview: In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriously anticipated the fall of the USSR. Guida has only 12 days to complete the mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Light Drops
Overview: Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Submission
Overview: Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to force her husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, into Court. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-16
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Maria
Overview: Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with José, a married man who became her most faithful client but who couldn't help her to escape the hard life. Today this old prostitute continues showing off her body through the long city's nights, though the clients are almost gone. José is still there, but he failed at what she desired the most: a son. In a very intimate and raw portray of a woman, MARIA disclosures how love and getting older can feels like.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-27
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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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A Matança Ritual de Gorge Mastromas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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The Uncertainty Principle
Overview: Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Brother and Sister
Overview: They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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