David Almeida
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis:
Locus Natus: Portugal
Et ut:
The Art of Stealing
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
release : 2008.11.06popularis : 2.549
The Damned Yard
In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's...
release : 2023.01.25popularis : 0.938
The Nothingness Club
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and...
release : 2023.01.25popularis : 3.459
The Beauty and the Paparazzo
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...
release : 2010.01.28popularis : 2.151
Love Torn in Dreams
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...
release : 2000.08.28popularis : 1.75
Lent
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...
release : 2003.05.18popularis : 0.952
The Gravedigger
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of...
release : 2012.12.08popularis : 1.163
The Fifth Empire
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...
release : 2004.09.09popularis : 0.859
The Botanist
Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk...
release : 2006.10.01popularis : 1.495
I'll See You in My Dreams
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...
release : 2003.07.01popularis : 3.748
Facas e Anjos
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...
release : 2000.03.14popularis : 0.981
As Bodas de Deus
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
release : 1999.10.15popularis : 4.012
Tebas
Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting...
release : 2007.03.01popularis : 1.217
O Último Condenado à Morte
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
release : 2009.05.28popularis : 0.904
Golias
A jester must entertain. But he doesn't always want to.
release : 2010.07.03popularis : 0.508
Lavado em Lágrimas
João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...
release : 2006.01.26popularis : 0.873
Cinerama
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading...
release : 2010.01.25popularis : 1.502
The Great Mystical Circus
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s...
release : 2018.11.15popularis : 4.07
Magnetick Pathways
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
release : 2019.04.25popularis : 0.874
Labirinto
Director Júlio Bessa, who suffers from "stage fright" will make an introduction to his latest film at Festival de Cinema Luso Brasileiro in...
release : 2014.12.07popularis : 1.468
Rio Turvo
A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She...
release : 2007.11.28popularis : 0.43
The Easy Way
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist...
release : 2008.04.16popularis : 12.373
Ruy Blas
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...
release : 2002.10.27popularis : 0.681
Down by Life
A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.
release : 2020.10.29popularis : 1.053
Jonathas' Forest
Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The family harvests and sells local products at...
release : 2012.10.08popularis : 2.862
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A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He...
release : 2002.10.06popularis : 1.422