Gonçalo Waddington
Birthday: Born in 1977-09-25 in Lisboa, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
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Causa Própria
Character: Attorney Renato
After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk....
Noite Sangrenta
Character: Abel Olímpio
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Filha do Mar
Character: Vítor
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Conde de Abranhos
Character: Dr. Tavares
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Vai Correr Tudo Bem
Character: Manuel
This is a fictional series with biographical elements where Guilherme Geirinhas tries to make everything go well....
Odisseia
Character: Gonçalo
A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself....
Último a Sair
Character: Gonçalo Waddington
An original and unique parody to reality shows. In Portugal, different celebrities, from different artistic areas, "live" together in a house where everything looks real, but it's not. Pure comedy and social satire....
Não Há Duas Sem Três
Character: Alberto
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Os Contemporâneos
Character: Várias Personagens
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Terra Mãe
Character: Gonçalo de Castro
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Ajuste de Contas
Character: Filipe
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Polícias
Character: João Luís
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Filhos do Vento
Character: Jorge (jovem)
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A Senhora das Águas
Character: Lucas (jovem)
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A Raia dos Medos
Character: Guarda Silvério
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Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Antero
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Teorias da Conspiração
Character: Pedro Soares Teixeira
Conspiracy Theories...
Até Amanhã, Camaradas
Character: Vaz
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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....
Madrugada Suja
Character: Luís Morais
A students' night out culminates in a fateful dawn. Years later, Filipe's forgotten past is brought to light after stumbling upon a case of corruption. The story follows the fate of this man as he becomes embroiled in a political intrigue....
O Americano
Character: Primo Amândio
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"....
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Blood Curse
Character: António
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....
Grand Tour
Character: Edward
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia....
Nothing Ever Happened
Character: Pai Paulo
António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams....
Banzo
Character: Raimundo
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?...
Alice
Character: airport security
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods....
Assim Assim
Character: Médico
Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives....
How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Character: Carteiro
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle....
Aljubarrota
Character: Nuno Álvares Pereira
A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation....
Remains of the Wind
Character: Vítor
A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in....
The Portuguese Falcon
Character: Capitão Falcão
A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace"....
Entre os Dedos
Character: Nuno
After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities....
Vai Correr Tudo Bem
Character: Manuel Geirinhas
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Coro dos Amantes
Character: Ele
Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues....
Hell
Character: The Father
In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia....
Bloody Night
Character: Abel Olímpio
A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…...
Lines of Wellington
Character: Zanaga / Espião
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal....
Yvone Kane
Character: João
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....
Until Tomorrow, Comrades
Character: Vaz
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....
Misbegotten
Character: Augusto
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....
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Character: Passarinheiro
In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated the...
Sombras Brancas
Character: Captain
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory....
Caiu
Character: Pai
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Saint George
Character: Chef Cardoso
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 ...
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Character: Filho que rouba / Careto / Vasco
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 !...
Immaculate
Character:
A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope....
Anjo Caído
Character: Polícia
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Mariphasa
Character: Segurança
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything threatens to crack....
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....
Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
Character: Bancário Pacote de Açúcar
The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve....
The Secret Agent
Character: Ass't Commissioner
An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution....
April Showers
Character: Pedro
April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotte...
Capitão Falcão: Terror no Museu
Character: Capitão Falcão
The most famous duo of Portuguese superheroes are called once again to the office of Fascist PM António de Oliveira Salazar. Turns out communists are trying to invade the Natural History Museum. What do they want this time around?...
Handing Over
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A man has to sell the home he has spent such happy times in. His daughters have grown up and left. Reluctantly, he shows the house for some buyers: a young couple with a kid. When they arrive, in love and so happy, the house owner sees a reflection of himself years before. This unexpected glimpse of his past makes handing over somehow easier to bear…...
O Outro Lado de Patrick
Character: Himself
A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists....
Patrick
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Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family....
How We Got Mother Back
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Shortly after the death of his wife, a father of four retreats into bed and into mourning until the house is left to self-manage. The older children think about how to pull him out of this stupor; the eldest begins by mimicking their mother's voice. Soon, the game spirals out of control, just like each of their identities....