Márcia Breia
Birthday: Born in 1944-06-17 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
Márcia Breia is a Portuguese stage, film and television actress.
TV Credits
Anjo Selvagem
Character: Nazaré Clemente
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A Senhora Ministra
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Ninguém Como Tu
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Fala-me de Amor
Character:
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Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Desliga a Televisão
Character:
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Alta Definição
Character: Self - Guest
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
O Sábio
Character: Cândida Pinheiro
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Sol de Inverno
Character: Dulce
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Velhos Amigos
Character: Ermelinda
The adventures and lives of three old friends....
Caminhos da Alma - Fátima
Character: Isaura
The pilgramage of 11 women in 9 days and 400km to Fátima....
Papel Principal
Character: Fernanda Peixoto
At the center of this story is Aurora Guerra, a popular actress who became a star in the teen series "The Chosen Ones" at an early age. Irene and Julio, Aurora's parents, signed her up for a casting several years ago and the matriarch, realizing that the decision was between her and another girl, managed to play the casting director in Aurora's favor. Lúcia has the same dream: to be a successful actress and decides to apply for the casting as well, but she soon realizes Irene's scheme and decide...
Chiquititas
Character: Gertrudes Rio Seco
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Cidade Despida
Character: Madre Custódia
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Os Nossos Dias
Character: Glória
Os Nossos Dias follows the daily lives of its many characters. Among the typical soap opera-esque romances featured in the show, significant social-awareness issues have also been featured, i.e., domestic violence, living with HIV, and homophobia....
Lúcia - A Guardiã do Segredo
Character: Lúcia dos Santos (82 Anos)
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Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Character: Dona Alice
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Louco Amor
Character: Lucinda Rocha
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Super Pai
Character: Margarida
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Alentejo Sem Lei
Character: Anica
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Anjo Meu
Character: Avelina Vicente
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Cinzas
Character: Alice
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Riscos
Character: Mãe de Gonçalo
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Polícias
Character: Teresa
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Filhos do Vento
Character: Amélia
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Verão Quente
Character: Teresa Castro
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Diário de Maria
Character: Helena Ramos
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Desculpem Qualquer Coisinha
Character: Manuela
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Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Mãe
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Ballet Rose - Vidas Proibidas
Character: Leonor
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....
Segredo de Justiça
Character: Leonor
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Trapos e Companhia
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Roseira Brava
Character: Inácia
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O Dia do Regicídio
Character: D. Bona
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Nazaré
Character: Ermelinda Marques
“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope....
Fábrica de Anedotas
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Mulheres de Abril
Character: Rosa (Adulta)
The Portuguese Carnation Revolution of April 25th seen by a women perspective....
Movie Credits
Une femme dans la tourmente
Character: Singer
Michèle is the new French consul in a South American country. She quickly discovers that the government is, in fact, a dictatorship. Moreover, her seventeen-year-old daughter is involved in the revolution against the regime....
A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Character: the third Comite Lady
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A....
Black Shoes
Character: Dalila's mother
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case....
I Always Wanted to Be a Saint
Character: Grandmother Portuguese
A teenage girl, Norah (Marie Kremer), living with her depressed father, Jean-Michel (Thierry Lefevre), in Luxembourg, obsesses over the whereabouts of her missing mother, who left them both when Norah was still a newborn. Norah is a misfit and devotes her energy to helping others and conversing with an imaginary friend. But, when she receives information pertaining to the possible location of her mother, Norah has to seriously think about inviting the woman back into her life....
Rosa Negra
Character: D. Zezinha
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 ......
My Name Is Bernadette
Character: Pani Milhet
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....
O Delfim
Character: Dona da Pensão
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious bark...
Bird of Prey
Character: Luísa
After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors. His only company is Luisa, the cleaning lady, with whom he plays cat and mouse. To escape the sleep of reason – which creates monsters -, Hugo exercises his lyrical vein by writing, with his friend Manuel, songs about their neighbourhood. The quiet dilettantism of our protagonist is shaken by Catarina, a young and beautiful translator who’s starting her pr...
The Flame of a Candle
Character: Beatriz (75)
Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used to depict less the joys of family life than a pernicious space. André Gil Mata has made it his stage, with its rooms, its furniture, what plays out there and what has already played out there. From one room to another, from one era to another, the film delves deep into this enclosed space, a kind of suffocating box....
98 Octanas
Character: Pilar
He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."...
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
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1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the y...
Der Lissabon Krimi: Die verlorene Tochter
Character: Richterin Fonseca
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Der Lissabon Krimi: Zum Schweigen verurteilt
Character: Richterin Fonseca
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Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Character: Museum Employee
Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve....
The open luggage
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Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, without knowing it, her only client. This explains why Amanda, since then, has been stealing suitcase in a bus station in order to live. One day Amanda steals a suitcase which is different than the other. Its content will change her life....
2nd Person
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One day, an old water pipe caused a ceiling leak. On this ceiling, toxic mushrooms of the order Polypo- rales would grow. Sitting on the toilet, the lady of this house looks up and observes that magical and mys- terious fungus, which is not an animal, nor a plant. The mushroom is the future, she thought....
Twin Flames
Character: Clara
Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando’s exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural ha...
The Home Fairy
Character: Joana
Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence an...
Misbegotten
Character: Adelaide
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood....
Fátima
Character: Isaura
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima....
Histórias Selvagens
Character:
An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a cinematographic chronicle of the rural worker in the area of Montemor-o-Velho....
The Sword and the Rose
Character: Luísa
Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact....
Alex
Character: Godmother
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa....
O Prego
Character: D. Clotilde
Ronaldo is Brazilian, from good families and has a problem. His left hand is nailed to his father's table. The reason: Ronaldo has been abusing cocaine which has led him to accumulate debt. Their executioners did not forgive the fact that they had to travel once more, and again in vain, to Ronaldo's parents' cottage where he has been hiding. After confronting some characters (all of them seem sinister in Ronaldo's distorted gaze), the Brazilian manages to solve his problems, as if from a dream...
On the Edge of the Horizon
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Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger....
Runaways
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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....
The Donkey-Eared Prince
Character: Princesa Camila / Uma Fada
In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end....
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
Character: Antonia
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and beauty of his voice. The Duchess dies and her son, the Duke of Arcos, takes charge of the inheritance, which includes Balthasar. With the entrance of Maria Loffredo, former lover of the Duke, a triangle is established that unchains tragic consequences to the allegedly callous life of Balthasar....
Jogo de Mão
Character: Maria Madalena
In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a living, and tries to keep up a relationship with two women while convincing each she is his only true love. The next story is about a man who beats up his wife when he is drunk, and sells furs for a living. One day, as she is riding in the back of his tru...
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Character: Vizinha 1
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’...
Kiss and Cry
Character: Maria
Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon....
The Portuguese Nun
Character: Sacristá
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....
O Quadro
Character: Eduarda
"O Quadro" is a short film written and directed by Lucas Manarte. The film tells the story of Eduarda and João, a couple in debt....
Ao Sul
Character: Liberdade
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....
Minus 9
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This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder....
Der Lissabon Krimi - Spiel mit dem Feuer
Character: Richterin Fonseca
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Der Lissabon-Krimi: Alte Rechnungen
Character: Richterin Fonseca
Lisbon Attorney and former DA Eduardo Silva never got over the death, two years ago, of his wife valentine in a car crash. When he and his gypsy assistant Marcia Amaya hear crime baron Tiago Zarco is arrested having been found over the corpse of the massive pharmaceutical fraud case, she's surprised like the DA that Eduardo offers to defend Zarco, who accepts while keeping his uncooperative right hand-lawyer on, even if that solves their law firm's dire financial state. Silva seems prepared to r...
Der Lissabon-Krimi: Der Tote in der Brandung
Character: Richterin Fonseca
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...
Toreros
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After having been in jail, Manuel becomes a bullfighter following dangerously his father's steps....
Veneno Cura
Character: Rosa's Mother-in-Law
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night....
Young Toscanini
Character: Comparsa (uncredited)
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man....
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...
Meu Passado Me Condena 2: O Filme
Character: Senhora da Estação
The life of Fabio and Miá falls into the rut when differences, which are not few, need to be faced. After Fábio forget the third wedding anniversary, Miá decides to ask for a time in the relationship. When Fábio's grandfather, who lives in Portugal, tells him that he was a widower, he sees on this trip to the funeral an opportunity to save his marriage....
Requiem
Character: Mrs. Casimira
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, di...
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Character: Gabriela Mistral
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....
La Gamine
Character: Luísa
A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. There's only one problem : her behavior brings the two of them more than once in trouble....
Maria
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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 dis...
The Lone Wolf
Character: Clarinda Marques
One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend....