Ivo Canelas
Birthday: Born in 1973-12-23 in
Deathday: Alive
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Emília
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Emilia is a 17 year old who just finished high school and now works at the local gas station. She has the dream of becoming a professional ballerina, but has never had the courage to leave everything and try. One day she finally gets the chance to audition for the last ballet company still standing in Portugal. She will have to decide whether she should try and risk failing miserably or carry on with her comfortable life, without purpose....
Causa Própria
Character: Vítor
After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk....
Os Filhos do Rock
Character: Xavier Bastos
A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's....
Filha da Lei
Character: Editor-Chefe Jaime
Filha da Lei, a criminal series on a Chief Inspector, Isabel Garcia, and the investigation of the most important police case in Portugal in the last 20 years. Garcia is faced with the greatest challenge of her career when she is assigned to lead the Investigation of the violent serial murders that devastate the city. Samuel Lopes, Trainee Inspector with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins the Garcia Brigade where he will have to earn his place and the respect of the most experienced inspector...
O Fura-Vidas
Character: Joca Fintas
The misadventures of the two Fintas brothers Joca and Quim who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires....
Santiago
Character: Pedro
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Riscos
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Diário de Maria
Character: Luís
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Débora
Character: Manuel
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Sul
Character: Pastor Santoro
The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal....
O Americano
Character: Doutor
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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The Art of Stealing
Character: Xico da Silva
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess....
Conexão
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Call Girl
Character: Madeira
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......
Respiro
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O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
Character: Miguel Zuzarte
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A Shot in the Dark
Character: Brocas
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers......
The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: Médico
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....
Alice
Character: Ricardo
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: Miguel
Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives....
Florbela
Character: Apeles Espanca
Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love....
Do outro lado do mundo
Character: Ricky
Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the fatal attraction that she causes....
Zona J
Character: Cosmo
Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla with him. However, the reality the two teens are in complicates their plans......
An Avocado Pit
Character: Cláudio
Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from violence and filled with light and hope for the better days yet to come....
The Mystery of Sintra
Character: Eça de Queirós
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....
20.13: Purgatory
Character: Médico
Mozambique, 1969. What was meant to be a peaceful Christmas Eve ends up badly as a group of soldiers brings home a prisoner that will be murdered. Simultaneously, the Capitan's wife arrives in surprise, bringing along a Priest, who is supposed to celebrate the mass....
Under My Skin
Character: Mário
On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him....
Shoot Me
Character: Ruben
The bride to be is about to choose her wedding dress... a mother torn between future stability and a past she is unable to let go. What happens when the phone rings? Will, elegance and grace burned by consuming passion. Red lipstick; a forbidden encounter; sex; photographs and a dark room... The divorce papers signed. Silence, sorrow and regret... love is not easily discarded... Will the bride ever become the wife?...
Road 47
Character: Rui
During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that sets them running aimlessly right in the middle of 'no man's land'. Desperate cold and hungry, the ill-prepared soldiers have to choose between facing military court or delve deeper into enemy lines. After a tense discussion, they decide to save their faces with the Brazilian Army by tackling a daring military objective: to disarm the most feared min...
Christmas Wrapping Paper
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Dodu, a fearless little cardboard boy, Camilla, an enchanting 8-year-old girl and Santa, a Father Christmas for every day, rescue Camilla’s father from the claws of the Waste Monster. As part of their adventure they recycle the wrapping paper from the Christmas presents and are able to breathe in pure air with all Sky-Forests ad Earth-Forests....
Budapeste
Character: Álvaro
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....
The Uncertainty Principle
Character: António Clara
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family....
O Dez
Character: Benjamim (segments "Gnosis" / "Epílogo")
A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology....
Ice
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The lives of two women intersect....
Histórias de Alice
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Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
Character: Lucas Mateus
A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume....
Zeus
Character: Ramiro
Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be...
Antonio, a boy in Lisbon
Character: Jaime
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation....
Soldier Millions
Character: Capitão Ribeiro de Carvalho
A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions....
O Último Condenado à Morte
Character: Francisco Matos Lobo
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal....
On the Phone with God
Character: Bartolomeu
Bartolomeu, a humble peasant, decides to exchange his mare Pestana for Adelia's hand in wedding. However, Bartolomeu's world is turned inside out when Pestana disappears and meets a mysterious man who claims to be able to talk to God... on the phone....
The Lovebirds
Character: Pedro
THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous...
Fuga
Character: Antunes
Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide....
Monsanto
Character: Bruno
Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant....
Inside Hou8e
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Stories behind the conceptual photography project HOU8E (2014-2017) by the independent portuguese photographer Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)....
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....
Que Mulheres Serão Estas?
Character: Cláudio
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....