Virgílio Castelo
Birthday: Born in 1953-02-26 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
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Passerelle
Character: António Gonzaga
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....
Mulheres
Character: Hélder Peralta
The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish....
Terra Nova
Character: Capitão Silva
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Um Estranho em Casa
Character: Francisco da Cunha
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Já Está
Character: Dramatização
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Joaquim Letria
Character: Theo Van Gogh
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Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Parabéns
Character: Self
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Vila Faia
Character: Pedro Castella
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Terapia
Character: Mário Magalhães
The show follows Mário Magalhães, a psychotherapist, through his weekly meetings with his patients, including his appointment with his own therapist....
Destinos Cruzados
Character: Jaime Veiga de Andrade
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Podia Acabar o Mundo
Character: Eduardo Morais
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A Família Mata
Character: Dário
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Filha do Mar
Character: Diogo
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Saber Amar
Character: António
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País Irmão
Character: Tony Santa Clara
Reality is much stranger than fiction. There is a scandal that could be revealed and the Portuguese Government is nervous. The Minister of Culture and her team have a crazy idea that, for that reason, can work: to produce, together with Brazil, the biggest and most spectacular telenovela of all time: "Corte Tropical"....
Todo o Tempo do Mundo
Character: Miguel Faria
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Olhos de Água
Character: Padre Eduardo
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Senhora do Mar
Character: Adérito Ramalho
On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revere...
Super Pai
Character: Alexandre
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O Mandarim
Character: Diabo
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Vidas de Sal
Character: João Fragoso
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Ajuste de Contas
Character: Inspector Soares
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Riscos
Character: Edmundo
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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Pedro Caldeirada
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Polícias
Character: Norberto
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Filhos do Vento
Character: Jorge Abrantes
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A Senhora das Águas
Character: João Manuel
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Sozinhos em Casa
Character: Professor Castelo
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Diário de Maria
Character: Miguel Gaspar
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Ballet Rose - Vidas Proibidas
Character: Polícia Álvaro
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: Eduardo
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Procura-se
Character: Jorge Tavares Ribeiro
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Marina, Marina
Character:
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Roseira Brava
Character: Manolo
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Abandonados
Character: Canto de Resende
Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him....
Ideias com História
Character: Zé do Telhado
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Terra Brava
Character: Francisco Ferreira
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother....
O Olhar da Serpente
Character: Rui Albuquerque Botelho
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O Dia do Regicídio
Character: Afonso Costa
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Regresso a Sizalinda
Character: Vitalino
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Nazaré
Character: António Blanco
“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....
Mistura Fina
Character: Justino Lampreia
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Call Girl
Character: Health Minister
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......
Pau Preto
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Corruption
Character: the Vice-President
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....
Doomed Love
Character: João da Cruz
A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love....
The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: Gonçalo
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....
Homo Verum
Character: Dr. Fidalgo
In 1894, Gabriel, an ambitious medicine graduate, spends his summer learning from the renowned Doctor Fidalgo in his isolated Mansion. Upon developing a lustful admiration for Fidalgo's wife, the young doctor is forced to break his morals....
A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera
Character: Francisco Figueiredo
Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he al...
Two Women
Character: Paulo Amorim
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......
Bairro
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Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco....
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
Character: Carlos
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!...
A Passagem da Noite
Character: delegado do Ministério Público
Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood....
O Outro Lado da Mentira
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Cold Phosphorus
Character: Afonso Luís Campos
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Star Crossed
Character: Pedro Escalus
Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch....
Fin de curso
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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 "....
The Satin Slipper
Character: Officer
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter....
Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Character: Doctor
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....
O Fim da Inocência
Character: Fernando
Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction....
Meia Noite
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The Donkey-Eared Prince
Character: General / Médico Galezus
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....
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....
Rapiscimi
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Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
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Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptic...
A Vida É Bela?!
Character: Teodoro Galã
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....
St. Louis
Character: Dr. Josef Joseph
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba....
Contactos 2.0
Character: Produtor
A man downloads a mobile app that gives terrible power over his contacts....
True and Tender is the North
Character: Almeida Garrett
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira....
Terra Nova
Character: Capitão Silva
Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the way, he has to face storms, crew revolt and deal with the best and the worst of humanity when tested in extreme circumstances....
The Jester
Character: Soldier
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play....
Lives
Character: Dynamiter in Prison
Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks....
Quarta Divisão
Character: Director Nacional PSP (voice)
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?...
Camarate
Character: Diogo
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...
A Girl in Summer
Character: João
It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick....
Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
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Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them....
Crónica Feminina
Character: Vasco
Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things...
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Character: Macedo Soares
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....
Teorema de Pitágoras
Character: António
João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he meets Ana. That girl will change his life and the way he sees the relationships between men and women, but not before a "little problem" called Sofia - a TV star in the movie - come into their relationship...
Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros
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The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl....
Egas’ Ego
Character: Sobral Cid
Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949....