Lídia Franco
Birthday: Born in 1944-03-23 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
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Passerelle
Character: Marta
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....
Não És Homem Não És Nada
Character: Cissa
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Cuidado com as Aparências
Character: Elsa
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances....
Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Já Está
Character: Dramatização
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Parabéns
Character: Various characters
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Xica da Silva
Character: Guiomar Pereira
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Hermanias
Character: Various
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Desliga a Televisão
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Espelho d’Água
Character: Isabel Goulart
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Velhos Amigos
Character: Irene
The adventures and lives of three old friends....
País Irmão
Character: Eugénia
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"....
A Outra
Character: Fernanda Pimentel
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Sabbath
Character: Maria Alva
Exploring perspectives on witches from different angles, ranging from historical accounts to popular folklore, shedding light on the complex narratives surrounding these notorious figures....
Herman Enciclopédia
Character: Várias Personagens
Herman encyclopedia is a sketch comedic show with every episode centered on a theme, The host (Herman) and other actors play many characters spoofing Portuguese TV shows, famous Portuguese people and other Portuguese related stuff....
Deux justiciers dans la ville
Character: Mousseline
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Amor de Perdição
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A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco....
Terra Mãe
Character: Isabel Carvalho
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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Dra. João Deixas
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Sozinhos em Casa
Character: Isabel
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Queridas e Maduras
Character: Virgínia
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As Lições do Tonecas
Character: Cláudia Morgues
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Procura-se
Character: Maria Alice
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A Banqueira do Povo
Character: Teresa Moreira
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Marina, Marina
Character:
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Uma Casa em Fanicos
Character: Jacqueline Fonseca
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Os Malucos do Riso
Character: Vários Papéis
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Sabado à Noite
Character: Various characters
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Nunca Digas Adeus
Character: Vera de Almeida Barreto
Vera de Almeida Barreto highlights her choices as a woman dedicated to family, sacrificing herself to support her husband's career and raise their three children. Upon discovering Lourenço's affair with lawyer Daniela Lopes (Rita Salema), a younger woman, Vera reevaluates her life, questioning her role as a woman and facing a lack of support from her children in this challenging situation. The plot becomes even more complex when Vera falls in love with a younger man, challenging societal norms a...
Cobardias
Character: Ilda
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Rosa Fogo
Character: Teresa Amorim
Rosa Fogo is a Portuguese soap opera that aired on SIC from September 2011 to June 2012....
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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Character: the second Comite Lady
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A....
My Name Is Bernadette
Character: Marie-Thérèse Vauzous
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer....
The Crime of Aldeia Velha
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Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slowly start believing that she is possessed by the devil....
Lovely Child
Character: Júlia
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....
Índia
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Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean....
The Curse of Marialva
Character: Maria Alva
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown....
Clear Nights
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Two siblings face their problems and undergo a profound inner transformation at a time when they both rediscover themselves. Lidia struggles to cope with her newborn baby: she can’t handle the expectations, doesn’t recognize her body, and distances herself from home and her boyfriend. Her brother Lauro works in a funeral agency. Divorced with a son, he grapples with accepting his bisexuality. Though the siblings rarely saw each other, their shared challenges bring them closer on a journey of red...
Duke
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Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder....
Histórias de Alice
Character: Alice (idosa)
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The Curse of Romanova
Character: Sr. do Lixo
Four pre-teenagers investigate the kidnapping of a schoolmate until they reach a witch, Romanova, who takes another friend before disappearing. Fifteen years later, Romanova reappears and one of the survivors must rally the rest to put an end to her....
Crime at the Little Star Pension
Character: Preciosa
Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be actors, instead of the ill-reputed 'Good-Night Pension' (just across the narrow street), where gigolos, whores, and criminals of all sorts may go for a quick encounter. However, not all is well among the ten residents of 'Little Star Pension': each dialogue line from every hotel guest is evidence that he, or her, has a reason (actually, more than one) t...
Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
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New years special aired on RTP on 1991...
Stalin's Couch
Character: Rumichvili
Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny....
Dead Man's Seat
Character: Luísa
A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place....
He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes
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The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Character: Panicky Woman 1
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth....
Haircut
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The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day....
The Wheat and the Tares
Character: Mariana
A sad and strong people living in the huge plains of Alentejo. Their endless struggle for bread, their nostalgic, bewitching songs and their daily toil to turn a dry, barren land into golden wheat fields....
Ruth
Character: D. Otília
This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium....
One Foot in the Algarve
Character: Maria
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him....
6 Underground
Character: Maria
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator....
Acts of Cinema
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Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians....
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
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The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren’t included on the show....
Pão, Amor e... Totobola
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Portuguese fictional feature film directed by Henrique Campos....
Love Comedy
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According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear....
O Lampião da Estrela
Character: Mrs. Soares Coutinho
When a football agent acquires the rights of two young Mozambican players, he tries to transfer them to Benfica, his favorite club....
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Character: Femme champagne
At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits who cross his path learn this to their own cost. But, unfortunately, no one is perfect... As soon as he catches a cold, Benoît loses his extraordinary physical abilities. Hence he never takes off the woollen scarf wrapped around his neck. Brave and very determined, he doesn't hesitate a second to take action to defend his friends. So, when Poilonez ...
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....
April Showers
Character: Leonor
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...
Ruy Blas
Character: Duchesse d'Albuquerque
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her....
In the White City
Character: Woman at Bar
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon....
Canção da Saudade
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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....
Feu Adrien Muset
Character: Woman from the pastry shop (uncredited)
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