Adriano Luz
Birthday: Born in 1959-04-09 in Porto, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
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Senhores Doutores
Character: Dr. Jorge Oliveira
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A Senhora Ministra
Character: Padre
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Já Está
Character: Dramatização
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Destinos Cruzados
Character: Raimundo Falcão Coentrinhos
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Poderosas
Character: Julião Rocha
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Espírito Indomável
Character: Ambrósio Ramos
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Sentimentos
Character: Eduardo Coutinho
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Sangue Oculto
Character: Alberto Mesquita
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Cuba Libre
Character: Fernando Silva Pais
Cuba Libre tells the story of Annie Silva Pais, the daughter of the last PIDE director, Silva Pais. At the age of 30, Annie Silva Pais left her husband, family and country and left for Cuba, becoming involved in the Cuban revolution. In addition to other events, there is also a romance with Che Guevara....
Nome de Código: Sintra
Character: Ramalho
The murder of an important politician leads the police to investigate a traditional family. But they already have its share of unsolved crimes, starting with the unclear death of an English officer in the family estate, in 1870. Can all these crimes be intertwined?...
Sociedade Anónima
Character: Carlos
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A Raia dos Medos
Character: Zé D'Olaia
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Remédio Santo
Character: Armando Ferreira
Remédio Santo is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 18 May 2011....
Alentejo Sem Lei
Character: Negas
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Pensão Estrela
Character: Maurício
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A Promessa
Character: Joaquim Pimenta
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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Carlos/Padre Vítor/Adérito Lampreia
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Sai da Minha Vida
Character: Beto
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Ilha dos Amores
Character: Jaime Valente
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Uma Casa em Fanicos
Character: Eugénio
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Débora
Character: Tony Ribeiro
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Auga Seca
Character: Lázaro
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Barba & Cabelo
Character: Sousa
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O Dia do Regicídio
Character: João Franco
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A Espia
Character: Agostinho Lourenço
The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans....
Até Amanhã, Camaradas
Character: Manuel Rato
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Sul
Character: Humberto
The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal....
Mistérios de Lisboa
Character: Father Dinis
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)...
Alta Definição
Character: Self - Guest
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Glória
Character:
A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller....
O Americano
Character: Godinho
Portugal. Early '80s. A group of criminals spreads terror across the Algarve, with more than twenty bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they call "the Doctor" and a carpenter named Faustino Cavaco with the nickname "the American"....
Movie Credits
Blood Curse
Character: Xavier Oliveira Monteiro
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse....
Respiro
Character:
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Jogos de Enganos
Character: Major
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Traffic
Character: Hélio, Jesus' father
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in...
Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Father Dinis
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries....
Gesto
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Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community to which he belongs. At the same time, she lives her first love with Irina, a deaf young woman who doesn't understand why he wants to leave school and his country so much. For the first time in his life, Anthony's world is falling apart. But i...
Black Shoes
Character: Pinto
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case....
Aljubarrota
Character: Fernão Lopes
A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation....
Blackpot
Character: Bruno
A reorganization within a crime syndicate....
Quarta Divisão
Character: Machado
The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?...
Demain?
Character: Santiago Agustini
The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing....
Rosa Negra
Character: Filipe
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 ......
Lobos
Character:
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Tarde Demais
Character: Manel
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive....
Entre os Dedos
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After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities....
Lovely Child
Character: Victor (Vito)
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....
Get a Life
Character: Adelino
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life....
The Murmuring Coast
Character: Jaime Forza Leal
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable......
The Left Behind
Character: Virgílio
In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair and the desire to escape....
Uma Noite Inesquecível
Character: Agente Cordeiro
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Pê
Character: Pê
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....
Dialogues After the End
Character: Stranger
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....
The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Character: Conde de Gouvarinho
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest....
Lines of Wellington
Character: Bordalo
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal....
O Mergulho
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Until Tomorrow, Comrades
Character: Manuel Rato
Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives....
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Character: Sindicalista / Luís
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. These are stories based on whatever will be happening in Portugal during the production time of the film. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful ...
Janelas Verdes
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John From
Character: Pai
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....
Lost in Fuseta: Spur der Schatten
Character: Nélson Figo
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Your Face Will be the Last
Character: Leandro
Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro....
Banzo
Character: Curador
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?...
Before Tomorrow
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Arabian Nights
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Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic....
Camarate
Character: André
In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever...
The Fatalist
Character: the husband
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passeng...
A Bomba
Character: Terrorist 1
A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV....
Cold Day
Character:
A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that develops through characters who have for their antagonist life itself, with nothing (and everything) heroic about it....
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Character: Pai do Ladrão Amável
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !...
Yvone Kane
Character: Alex
After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil....
A Falha
Character: Manuel
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....
Night Train to Lisbon
Character: Mendez
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the...
Saint George
Character: Sousa
In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with ...
Rage
Character: João
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight....
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Character: José Lopes
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...
Alex
Character: Man in Coffee-House
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa....
O Rebocador
Character: Rebocador
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Querida Mãe
Character: António
The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead....
Bruno Aleixo's Film
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Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical....
Field of Blood
Character: Médico
The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime....
A Yellow Animal
Character: João da Beira
Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past....
DotCom
Character: Padre Felicidade
A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour....
Equinox
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I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure....
The Lone Wolf
Character: Vitor Lobo
One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend....
Que Mulheres Serão Estas?
Character: Virgílio
A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro Cabeleira (By Flávio), which proposes different possibilities for being a woman nowadays....