Henrique Viana
Birthday: Born in 1936-06-29 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: 2007-07-04
TV Credits
Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo
Character: D. Francisco de Noronha
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Zona+
Character: Rábula/Próprio
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Chuva na Areia
Character: Vilela
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Conde de Abranhos
Character: Vaz Correia
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Amor de Perdição
Character: Tadeu de Albuquerque
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco....
Maré Alta
Character: Captain
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Camilo na Prisão
Character: Chaves
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Todo o Tempo do Mundo
Character: Dr. Emílio
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A Raia dos Medos
Character: Cortês
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O Mandarim
Character: Zenóglio
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Vidas de Sal
Character: Gabriel Figueira
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Terra Instável
Character: Orador Fúnebre
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Pensão Estrela
Character: Encenador
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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: John Hollywood
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A Lenda da Garça
Character: Domingos Matos
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O Processo dos Távoras
Character: Marquês de Távora
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O Prédio do Vasco
Character: Inácio
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Polícias
Character: Jerónimo
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Os Imparáveis
Character: Custódio Filipe Miranda
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Sozinhos em Casa
Character: Oscar Ventura
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Desculpem Qualquer Coisinha
Character: Alberto Carpinteiro
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Queridas e Maduras
Character: Roque
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Diário de Maria
Character: João Cortez
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Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Gosma
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Ballet Rose - Vidas Proibidas
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When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case....
Marina, Marina
Character: Alfredo Pires
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Um Sarilho Chamado Marina
Character:
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Uma Casa em Fanicos
Character: Saavedra
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Camilo Em Sarilhos
Character: Basílio Andrade
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Camilo Em Sarilhos
Character: Vítima
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Desencontros
Character: Roberto Matias
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Café da Esquina
Character: Garfos
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Até Amanhã, Camaradas
Character: Presidente da Câmara
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Clubíssimo
Character: Nunes
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Quando os Lobos Uivam
Character: Judge
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Movie Credits
Portugal S.A.
Character: Alexandre Boaventura
The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company....
Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
Character: Fotógrafo
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Hard Times
Character: José Grandela
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s....
Recollections of the Yellow House
Character: Police Chief
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront....
Trial
Character: Henrique
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....
Doomed Love
Character: Tadeu Albuquerque
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....
A Portuguese Farewell
Character: Editor
In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace....
Here on Earth
Character: Inspector
Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a great deal, and that make it impossible for him to bear human society. His wife (Jessica Weiss) is thoroughly put out by this radically changed behavior in her formerly good husband, but though she considers leaving him, she stays by his side. D...
Rosa Negra
Character: Barriga d'Água
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ......
Duma Vez Por Todas
Character: hotel guest
Lisbon by night, through the eyes of a young woman who lives freely, and a neighbour who follows her everywhere, from a distance....
Sinais de Fogo
Character: uncle
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled....
Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss
Character: Tio Francisco
A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso....
A Bomba
Character: Police Director
A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV....
Ballad of Dog Beach
Character: Otero
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection....
Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Character: Augusto Gomes
Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves....
No Trace of Sin
Character: Tenente Rebordao
A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences....
House of Ghosts
Character: Alvarinho
Professor Hermes conducts a research on fear, for which he passes contract with a patient to live a supposedly empty mansion. He's counting on his assistant Chico Mota to play a phantom, but soon comes about that there are phantoms (plural) in there....
Clouds
Character: Mário
Tomás is a young teenager who fights for the leadership of a small marginal group. One night, in the world that he cannot control, his fallout leads to the death of one of the group's members. Laura, the possible witness to the crime, becomes a threat....
A Fuga
Character:
In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime....
April Captains
Character: Brigadeiro Moura
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....
Blood
Character: 1st creditor
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there....
A Falha
Character:
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time....
Longe da Vista
Character: Abel
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. Wh...
The End of the World
Character: Laureano
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.....
The Holy Alliance
Character: José Saraiva
In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentar...
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Character: Timoteo
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant....
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Character: Mário
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 De...
No Dia dos Meus Anos
Character:
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air....
A Vida É Bela.?!
Character: Magalhães
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again....
Guardian Angel
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Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who sh...
Eternidade
Character:
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O Lampião da Estrela
Character:
When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club....
Goodbye Princess
Character: Cmdt. Larguinho
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 pu...
Antes a Sorte Que Tal Morte
Character:
Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary....
A Luxury Crime
Character: Poncio Branco
Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15:30 to Lisbon a coming emigrant from France with a five year old daughter in her arms and attacks Pontius in his stronghold, demanding recognition of the daughter of sin, Libertina that he had made her "bidonville» on the city of light. Bernarda hir...
Women
Character:
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life....
O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
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O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto....
O Querido Lilás
Character: Director
Beladona was the greatest star, or so she thought. Careless of her rural property, she lived by night countless adventures. From one such nights in the arms of a stage and movie producer, she begot her dear Lilás. Alas, six minutes after birth, the boy was taken from her and declared dead - due to the intrigue of the producer, who didn't want to recognize the child as his. Taken into custody by a surrogate mother, twenty years after the child grew into a man, who starts his education in the very...
Malteses, Burgueses e às Vezes...
Character: Garbage Congressman Dr. Silva Filho
Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries......
A Maluquinha de Arroios
Character: Artur
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Amok
Character: the surgeon
Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Asia. In this drama, based on a story by Stefan Zweig, Dr. Steiner (Andrzej Seweryn) was caught with his fingers in the till at a German hospital. Rather than prosecute him, they gave him the option of emi...