Nicolau Breyner
Birthday: Born in 1940-07-30 in Serpa, Portugal
Deathday: 2016-03-14
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Vingança
Character: Alberto Lacerda
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Uma Família Açoreana
Character: José do Canto
"An Azorean Family" tells the story of a wealthy family of São Miguel (Azores, Portugal) in the second half of the XIX century....
Passerelle
Character: Major Ilídio
The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion....
Reformado e Mal Pago
Character: Artur
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Santos da Casa
Character: Afonso Santos
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Pedro e Inês
Character: D. Afonso IV
Pedro e Inês is a Portuguese television series first aired on RTP1 in 2005, based on the story of Peter I of Portugal and Inês de Castro....
Os Compadres
Character: Nico
Nico, his family and their friends are back for this continuation of 1990's comedy show Nico d'Obra (1993)....
Joaquim Letria
Character: Self
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Parabéns
Character: Self
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Já Está
Character: Self
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Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Vila Faia
Character: João Godunha
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Aqui Não Há Quem Viva
Character: João
This Portuguese comedy show is about the daily lifes of neighbours living at Campo de Ourique, with really confusing life stories....
Nico d'Obra
Character: Nicolau "Nico" Lopes
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Resistirei
Character: Octávio Graça Almeida
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Conde de Abranhos
Character: Pai Augusto
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A Casa é Minha
Character: Custódio
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Equador
Character: Mário Maltez
It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valença, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon's luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal's smallest colony, the island of São Tomé e Principe....
Louco Amor
Character: Carlos Correia
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Primeiro Amor
Character: Vítor Novais
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Vidas de Sal
Character: Vasco Tavares
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Cinzas
Character: Securas
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Terra Mãe
Character: Condutor da Carrinha
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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Garçon
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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Vasco
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Verão Quente
Character: Luís Arruda
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Gente Fina É Outra Coisa
Character: Horácio
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O Jogo
Character: António
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Euronico
Character: Vários Papéis
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Uma Casa em Fanicos
Character: Nico
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Ideias com História
Character: Benito Mussolini
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Os Homens da Segurança
Character: Carlos Jorge
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João Semana
Character: João Semana
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Palavras Cruzadas
Character: João
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Café da Esquina
Character: Voz na Rádio/Cliente do Café (uncredited)
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A Ferreirinha
Character: Forrester
The life of Antonia Ferreira (popularly known as "Ferreirinha") from her widowhood to her death, including her role in the production and marketing of the Port wine.At the same time it's told the love story between Camilo Castelo Branco and Ana Plácido....
Quando os Lobos Uivam
Character: Mr. Labão
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Movie Credits
The Art of Stealing
Character: Augusto Cardoso
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess....
Contrato
Character: Georgios Thanatos
Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco....
The Crime of Father Amaro
Character: Cónego Francisco Dias
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy....
Call Girl
Character: Carlos Meireles
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot......
Corruption
Character: the Presidente
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....
Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
Character: Chefe Trancoso
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Second Life
Character: Don Francesco
Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life....
The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: TV director
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity....
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Character: Prince's Aid
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists....
The Immortals
Character: Joaquim Malarranha
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he disc...
País do Desejo
Character: Dom Lázaro
Roberta is a renowned classical pianist battling a chronic kidney disease. However, an unexpected encounter with Father José will forever change her life....
A Teia de Gelo
Character: Mandante
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....
Kiss Me
Character: Fernando Almeida
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free....
Jaime
Character: Coluna
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one....
Inferno
Character: Nunes
Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission......
Dom Roberto
Character: Man in black
João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays......
The Mystery of Sintra
Character: Eduardo Coelho
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game....
7 Pecados Rurais
Character: God
In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die....
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
Character: Pedro Justiceiro
This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!...
The Miracle According to Salomé
Character: Sertório Cerqueira
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will ev...
O Outro Lado do Arco-íris
Character: Grandfather / Vagabundo
Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the story of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the first day of rain and sun, Carica embarks on adventure....
O Milionário
Character: Motorista
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Character: Joaquim
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband....
Inside Out
Character: the doctor
João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's nove...
Budapeste
Character: Escritor francês
José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects....
A Ilha dos Cães
Character: Patrão
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....
Glamour
Character: Taxista
Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed....
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Character: Leopold Stern
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....
Two Women
Character: Comandante Ernesto
Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures......
The Botanist
Character:
Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy....
O Princípio da Sabedoria
Character: Chiromant
In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner....
Night Train to Lisbon
Character: Da Silva
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...
O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
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The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques....
Pereira Declares
Character: Father Antonio
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for sub...
Expatriate
Character: Tio Nico
A Portuguese American businessman is deported to Portugal, where he sinks into debt and is driven to take part in a money scheme....
O Último Condenado à Morte
Character: Soares
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal....
Behind the Clouds
Character: Miguel Salgado
Nine-year-old Paulo stumbles upon a photograph of Miguel, the grandfather he never met, sets out to track him down and eventually meets him, at which point the magic begins....
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....
A Vida É Bela?!
Character: Hipólito do Ó
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....
Before Tomorrow
Character:
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Um Campista em Apuros
Character: Tó-Zé
While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that contains... 200 thousand dollars worth of jewelery stolen by the two girls in Marbella....
O Barão de Altamira
Character: Tenente-Coronel Horta da Costa
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O Diabo Era Outro
Character: João
Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company....
Pão, Amor e... Totobola
Character:
Portuguese fictional feature film directed by Henrique Campos....
Goodbye Princess
Character: Bernardo
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...
Lourdes
Character: Docteur Charcot
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-...
Canção da Saudade
Character:
Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares....
The Italian Writer
Character: Joseph - 2035
In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name "Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years ago. Lisbon, 2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei, who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan Order in Lisbon's Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a legendary mirror, "The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi", that was said to have allowed St Franc...
Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
Character:
New years special aired on RTP on 1991...
Light Traps
Character: Trindade
Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in Alentejo, he knows that sooner or later " they" will find him, yet he does not want to flee with a new identity until he finds his lover Alice. "They" find him and he has to escape with the help of Matilde. A fascinating woman who will now give him shelter and pretends to help him find Alice. Time is running out for Mário and Alice....
Sarilho de Fraldas
Character: Costa
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Malteses, Burgueses e às Vezes...
Character: Salferlide / Casanova do Vale
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......