Margarida Marinho
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: January 27, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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A Teia de Gelo
Overview: The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee. In flight, turns out to have an accident during a snowstorm and, despite being in despair, eventually finding a home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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Uma Vida Normal
Overview: Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Manual of Evasion LX94
Overview: “Manual of Evasion LX94” is a thought-provoking Dadaist film about time by the Portuguese director Edgar Pêra. It was shot in Lisbon in 1994 and stars Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker. Time is explored from many unusual angles, while Pêra fills the screen with a wide variety of bizarre and mind-warping imagery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Mais Tarde
Overview: During the investigation of a case, Teresa Rubens, a judge with a long career, married and mother of children, finds in court, as a defense witness, a former lover of her student days, Sousa Afonso, who owns some lands in Alentejo.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-04-30
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Quand j'étais p'tit
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Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-23
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Requiem for a Daffodil
Overview: Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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A Força do Atrito
Overview: Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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Duke
Overview: Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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Armpits
Overview: Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry. But Lazarus has other hidden interests, the most important of which is an obsessive fixation on female armpits. When he sees the violinist Maria Pia playing, Lazarus immediately falls in love and starts to live for her, which will precipitate an absolutely unpredictable ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Fado, Major and Minor
Overview: Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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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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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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Laços de Sangue
Overview: Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Low-Flying Aircraft
Overview: Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-05-09
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4 Hearts
Overview: Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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A Filha
Overview: Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-04-24
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Young Toscanini
Overview: A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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Alex
Overview: The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-02-16
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No Dia dos Meus Anos
Overview: This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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Marie
Overview: Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-31
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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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Love in the Strangest Way
Overview: Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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Runaways
Overview: Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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Querida Mãe
Overview: The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-03-29
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Fuga
Overview: Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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Cavaleiros De Água Doce
Overview: After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-28
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Laços de Sangue
Overview: Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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The Sound that Goes Down to Earth
Overview: Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matter in her hands and starts tape recording loving messages from each mother, wife and other family members. Carrying the tapes, she travels to Angola and personally delivers these messages to each and every soldier in a personal quest right in the middle of a country in war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-17
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Roman Holiday
Overview: Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American reporter and his photographer, who show her the sites. The reporter is initially more interested in a story than the Princess, but begins to fall for her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-28
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18 Holes to Paradise
Overview: During a torrid summer, a family is about to sell their land. Three women depend on what will happen to the farm, until a fire engulfs the region and, prevented from leaving, they will face the uncertainties about the future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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As Meninas Exemplares
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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