João Cabral
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Department: Acting
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Corruption
Overview: A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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O Cônsul de Bordéus
Overview: This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-03
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Assault on the Santa Maria
Overview: On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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A Cura
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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Fatal
Overview: Lara is a irresistible beautiful bar-woman who seduces men, takes them into her bed and kills them - that's her way of getting pleasure. One day Batarda, a possible victim approach her with the intent only: to get her to taste her own pleasure..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-13
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Lovely Child
Overview: Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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O Miradouro da Lua
Overview: A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns to his country. When he goes to his father's address, he has a big surprise and his life will change ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Fin de curso
Overview: There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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A Ilha dos Cães
Overview: Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Overview: Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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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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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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Lavado em Lágrimas
Overview: João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, João meets Ana, his teenage granddaughter, a mysterious character who is beginning to exercise an irresistible fascination for him. With the time João starts to lose the interest in the pigeon breeder and begins to take an interest in Ana and her world, which she only shares with another abandoned kid, until she realizes that her life is full of dark stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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A Batalha dos Três Reis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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Black Heart
Overview: A couple looks to mend their relationship and build a new home in the Azores.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-05-06
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Ao Sul
Overview: Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-04-25
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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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Matar Saudades
Overview: Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Cães Sem Coleira
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Operation Autumn
Overview: A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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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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April Captains
Overview: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Overview: One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Só Por Acaso
Overview: A bad luck that should never have happened, sends Rodrigo into a coma that lasts five years. And when he wakes up, after so long haunted by the image of the woman who shot him at close range, he realizes that life has not stopped waiting for him, without realizing that everyone is lying to him. And that your best friend is getting ready to get you into trouble again.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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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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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Overview: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-02
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Forget Everything I've Told You
Overview: A tragic-comedy over a dysfunctional Portuguese family. The story of six people who love, hate, split up and meet again - Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician; Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy; Joana, the daughter and her boyfriend, almost famous and the grandfather Tobias, a shepherd, almost imortal. Six characters, six stories, one film: Forget Everything I've Told You.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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Le voyage étranger
Overview: 11th century. Descended from the aristocracy, Alexis flees a world dominated by money and strength. The young man, in love with justice and freedom, sets off on the roads to discover the world, abandoning his wife and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Um Jantar Muito Original
Overview: 1907. The Porto Chamber has just been won by the Republicans, in full monarchy, three years away from the revolution. Republican ideas are taking hold and monarchical institutions are beginning to be shaken. However, the Sociedade Gastronómica de Lisboa resists and apparently is one of the strongest bastions of the monarchy. But winds of change blow within the walls of the traditional and conservative Society. A young member, Dr. Duarte Rodrigues, decides to run for president, held by the mysterious Prositt, who made his fortune in Africa. Duarte, stating that he does not want to betray the illustrious president, but as he is somewhat worn out and hopelessly dazzled by the leadership, he is able to artfully convince others to convince him, Duarte, to move forward, serving them for this. , in a dinner of taking power, a dish of unexpected excellence and very original.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-05
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Shadow
Overview: Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Titus
Overview: Titus, a Roman general, returns victorious to Rome after years of battle. The sacrifice of the captive queen Tamora’s eldest son sparks a spiral of violence and revenge, woven in true Shakespearean style in this loose adaptation of the classic.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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