Manuel João Vieira
Birthday: Born in 1962-10-17 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Já Está
Character: Self
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Zona+
Character: Próprio
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Parabéns
Character: Self
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Amar Demais
Character: Midas
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Conteúdo do Batáguas
Character: Manuel João Vieira
The content from "Batáguas" is not the DB report; it is released bi-weekly....
Odisseia
Character: Manuel
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....
Bocage
Character: Padre Agostinho Macedo
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Um Mundo Catita
Character: Manuel João Vieira
Um Mundo Catita is a series of 6 episodes inspired by the world and the characters invented by Manuel João Vieira, but also by the great successes of the last years of American HBO. It is not an exaggeration to say that nothing like this has ever been done in Portugal: contrary to what is usual with comedy shows, this series does not feature successive gags or pictures, but tells a story. The story of a bohemian and bankrupt singer (starring Manuel João Vieira) who falls in love with his beaut...
Madrugada Suja
Character: Acrísio Travassos
Filipe, a municipal architect known for his idealism and commitment to environmental causes, is the only person who can stop the construction of a luxury real estate development in a protected area. Maria Rodrigues, a young prosecutor, is pursuing a lead in a high-level financial corruption case. At the same time, the reopening of a closed case, in which she was the victim, forces her to confront the deep and painful trauma of a night that took place 15 years before. As she takes the investigati...
Movie Credits
I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: Sam, the Tavern Costumer
The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he finds a second shot at true love, but this blooming romance is threatened by the situation plaguing the town....
April Captains
Character: Fonseca
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it....
Disquiet
Character: Bêbado Corpulento
Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world....
O Candidato Vieira
Character: O Candidato
Satirical rock star runs for president of Portugal....
A Janela (Maryalva Mix)
Character: Antónyo Santynho
An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is used as setting to the plot....
Lovely Child
Character: gangster (mânfio)
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....
6=0 Homeostética
Character:
Documentary about the not-likely-legendary Portuguese art group from the 1980's....
A Man is not a Cat
Character: Piolho
A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that she cares....
Roast Bruno de Carvalho - Lisboa
Character: Himself
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A Força do Atrito
Character: Afonso
Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total....
Arrabalde
Character:
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Um Mundo Catita
Character: Manuel João Vieira
The burlesque and nonsensical biography of a singer, bohemian and broke, who falls in love with his sexy dentist who is already the fiancée of a well-off executive. The adventures and misadventures of the singer in this wonderful new world are told with tongue-in-cheek and several adult situations....
The Portuguese Falcon
Character: Prisioneiro Revoltado
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"....
Facas e Anjos
Character: Ilusionista
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, ...
Blood
Character: Zeca
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there....
Tebas
Character: Eddie's Father
Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his origins, departs from Paris to Portugal with a beatnik truck driver. The film is a voyage into the strange depths of Portugal in the form of surreal road-movie....
Magnetick Pathways
Character: Driver
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse....
Cabaret Maxime
Character: Zampino
A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be....
Mosquito
Character: Médico
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream....
Casa Manuel Vieira
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Manuel João Vieira shows us his home - or homes - and the characters who live there. The starting point is the characters' definition and the Casa Manuel Vieira exhibition. The Italian neighbour and the accidental tourist help us create scenarios on the man and the artist. In short, it is Manuel João Vieira and his rather particular working universe....
Eclipse em Portugal
Character: Fotografia do Presidente
Tó-Quim is a seemingly ordinary teenager, until the day he joins a band of black metal, the hand of a friend and Anita knows the drummer for who ends up falling in love....
Far Away from Here
Character: Jacinto
Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s overly protracted opening has car’s drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until the roadster breaks down. Momentum picks up at sunrise with their attempts to fix the car. A retired mechanic-turned-beekeeper with a heart condition (Canto e Castro) does the trick and convinces Figueiredo to take him cross-country on a motorbi...
Arquivos Kino-Pop
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Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra....
Primeira Obra
Character: Condutor tuk-tuk
Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between....