Alexandra Lencastre
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1965-09-26
Locus Natus: Lisbon, Portugal
Et ut:
A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.
release : 2003.03.21popularis : 2.057
Corruption
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.
release : 2007.11.01popularis : 1.776
The Mutants
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...
release : 1998.11.27popularis : 2.649
Traffic
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...
release : 1998.12.31popularis : 2.248
The Immortals
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and...
release : 2003.11.07popularis : 3.48
Trial
In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes...
release : 2007.10.11popularis : 0.82
Gesto
Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf...
release : 2011.10.23popularis : 1.508
End of Conservation
A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.
release : 1990.09.27popularis : 1.594
O Capacete Dourado
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...
release : 2007.09.19popularis : 1.651
O Delfim
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren...
release : 2002.03.13popularis : 2.501
Lovely Child
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.
release : 1990.05.04popularis : 0.95
Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss
A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.
release : 1988.06.06popularis : 1.257
Xavier
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 2.366
Poor George
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...
release : 1993.02.26popularis : 1.754
Outside
Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross...
release : 2004.04.01popularis : 0.981
Requiem for a Daffodil
Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 1.126
O Leão da Estrela
The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day,...
release : 2015.11.26popularis : 1.344
The Dancer Upstairs
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
release : 2002.09.20popularis : 7.174
The Orange Grove
After the news of his father's death, young designer Jorge inherits the country house where he grew up in northern Portugal. Influenced by his...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.732
A Falha
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...
release : 2002.10.24popularis : 1.266
Disquiet
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...
release : 2010.09.28popularis : 1.615
The End of the World
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..
release : 1993.06.10popularis : 1.554
Parque Mayer
Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people...
release : 2018.12.06popularis : 1.9
Cold Land
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...
release : 1992.06.22popularis : 1.247
Twist of Fate
Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is...
release : 2009.11.12popularis : 1.478
Three Palm Trees
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...
release : 1994.09.16popularis : 0.989
Um Passeio no Parque
Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife...
release : 2000.09.12popularis : 1.129
Quero-te Tanto!
A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an...
release : 2019.04.18popularis : 0.592
To the Bitter End
Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman,...
release : 1991.11.22popularis : 2.057
Agosto
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial...
release : 1988.05.05popularis : 1.554