Isabel de Castro
Isabel Maria Bastos Osório de Castro e Oliveira (August 1, 1931 – November 23, 2005) was a Portuguese film actress.
She was born in the capital Lisbon in 1931 to José Osório de Castro e Oliveira (Setúbal, 27 January 1900 - Lisbon, 3 December 1964) and writer Raquel Bastos, granddaughter of the writer Ana de Castro Osório, brother of the writer João Osório de Castro.
Castro's career began with the movie Ladrão, Precisa-se! in 1946. Later, she appeared in some Spanish films including Under the Skies of the Asturias where she played as Angelina Quirós, The Pelegrín System, Lawless Mountain as Maria and in El cerco. She played in more Portuguese films including Francisca (1981), O Desejado (1987) and Hard Times (1988). In the mid-1990s, she went to Cape Verde, appearing in the films Down to Earth (1995) and The Island of Contenda (1996), the latter based on the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa, in which she played the character of Nha Caela. Her last movie was A Casa Esquecida, in 2004. She appeared in about 50 films and appeared in theatre and television.
She died of cancer in Borba near Évora.
In 1948, she married Óscar Acúrsio, she later married Miguel Luke.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.539 |
| Birthday | 1931-08-01 |
| Place of Birth | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Also Known As |
1988
Hard Times
6.8/5
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
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Hard Times
1952
El sistema Pelegrín
6.2/4
Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely...
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El sistema Pelegrín
1952
La danza del corazón
0/0
On her journey to a provincial capital, Elena falls for the director of the Company of Zarzuela and leaves with him, despite opposition from his fathe...
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La danza del corazón
1993
Shadows in a Conflict
5/7
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing h...
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Shadows in a Conflict
1996
Desvio
0/0
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Desvio
1986
A Portuguese Farewell
5.9/6
In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...
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A Portuguese Farewell
1993
Here on Earth
5.875/8
Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be w...
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Here on Earth
1956
O Dinheiro dos Pobres
0/0
Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his c...
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O Dinheiro dos Pobres
1951
Under the Skies of the Asturias
0/0
The rich heiress of an emigrant lives a season of retreat and rest in the Asturian village from which her father left as a child. The experiences that...
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Under the Skies of the Asturias
1988
Tall Stories
6.3/7
12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a friends...
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Tall Stories
1993
O Miradouro da Lua
8/2
A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns...
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O Miradouro da Lua
1979
Música Para Si
9/1
A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only...
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Música Para Si
2000
Amo-te Teresa
6.7/6
Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life,...
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Amo-te Teresa
1989
Blood
6.9/26
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 ― mu...
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Blood
1991
Xavier
6.75/8
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
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Xavier
1983
No Trace of Sin
6.4/5
A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, w...
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No Trace of Sin
1999
La sombra de Caín
0/0
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La sombra de Caín
1999
The open luggage
0/0
Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, without kn...
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The open luggage
1959
The Mystery Key
0/0
A fussy insurance inspector (Varela Silva) has the mission to investigate why, in three years, 325 employees have passed through a farm shop. In his p...
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The Mystery Key
1955
El golfo que vio una estrella
0/0
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El golfo que vio una estrella
1953
Lawless Mountain
6/2
Spanish Zorro adaptation
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Lawless Mountain
1978
O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
7/1
The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the c...
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O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas
1975
Brandos Costumes
6.2/9
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salaz...
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Brandos Costumes
2003
Sans elle...
4.4/5
Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share th...
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Sans elle...
1995
Fado, Major and Minor
5.3/7
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in...
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Fado, Major and Minor
1998
Senhor Jerónimo
5/1
Confusion caused by Jerónimo, an old man abandoned in a hospital unit, staging his own death.
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Senhor Jerónimo
1952
Persecución en Madrid
2/1
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Persecución en Madrid
1981
Tiaga
5/3
Tiaga tells the story of a poor old woman, played by Isabel de Castro, to whom a good wizard offers the gift of youth to reward the help she provided...
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Tiaga
1997
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
6.6/17
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose fathe...
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
1955
El cerco
6/5
A group of robbers assault a factory in the port of Barcelona, but, upon being discovered, they are forced to flee hastily, each one his own way. An e...
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El cerco
1995
Casa de Lava
6.913/23
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...
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Casa de Lava
1966
Sunday Afternoon
7.2/5
Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill you...
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Sunday Afternoon
1999
The Island of Contenda
5.75/4
Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy...
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The Island of Contenda
1993
Chá Forte com Limão
8/1
In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an od...
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Chá Forte com Limão
2002
Low-Flying Aircraft
5.6/8
Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a sem...
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Low-Flying Aircraft
1954
El presidio
6/1
After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him 15,000 peset...
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El presidio
1953
La hija del mar
0/0
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La hija del mar
2000
When It Thunders
5.5/4
The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back an...
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When It Thunders
1987
The Mountains of the Moon
5.3/3
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Ci...
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The Mountains of the Moon
1988
Three Less Me
6/1
A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from...
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Three Less Me
1994
Three Palm Trees
5.5/4
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...
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Three Palm Trees
1999
Gloria
6.6/5
Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a boom...
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Gloria
2003
Us
2/1
Francisco just got out of prison after a six year sentence and is now a free man. He wants to change, and after a few days sleeping in the subway tunn...
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Us
1983
Jogo de Mão
6/2
In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the c...
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Jogo de Mão
1986
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
0/0
Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to st...
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Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
1998
Guardian Angel
8/1
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wro...
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Guardian Angel
2006
Antes de a Vida Começar
0/0
Biographic documentary about the Portuguese actress, Isabel de Castro.
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Antes de a Vida Começar
2004
A Casa Esquecida
7/1
Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they make a stop, renting their arms, the nec...
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A Casa Esquecida
1979
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
0/0
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...
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E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
1998
Traffic
5.4/10
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...
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Traffic
1991
Swing troubadour
0/0
In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exi...
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Swing troubadour
1970
O Destino Marca a Hora
5/1
A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes...
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O Destino Marca a Hora
1982
The Conversation Is Over
5.2/8
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchang...
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The Conversation Is Over
1988
Mensagem
0/0
Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and annou...
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Mensagem
1993
Family Matters
2.8/4
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his b...
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Family Matters
1989
The Seventh Letter
0/0
Some time ago Gerardo knew another man of the same age called Berardo. When he said the name, Berardo expressed his oppinion violently, saying that th...
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The Seventh Letter
1996
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
5/6
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and b...
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La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
1964
Fado Corrido
10/1
A Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting the love of a teenager, recently arriv...
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Fado Corrido
2002
O Fato Completo ou À Procura de Alberto
0/0
"At first everything was relatively simple. I was looking for a boy of African origins, between 16 and 18 years old to incarnate the role of Alberto i...
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O Fato Completo ou À Procura de Alberto
1952
Souls in Danger
0/0
Two boys are sent to reform school under the guidance of Father Fernando, a young and dedicated priest.
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Souls in Danger
1950
Criminal Brigade
5.6/5
A young policemen witnesses a bank robbery which will become his first case. To catch the thieves he will infiltrate himself as one of the gang member...
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Criminal Brigade
1962
Martes y trece
5/7
Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as a...
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Martes y trece
1961
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
5/1
The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility,...
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As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
1952
Dulce nombre
0/0
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Dulce nombre
1953
Bronce y luna
0/0
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Bronce y luna
1952
Mercado prohibido
0/0
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Mercado prohibido
1953
Hay un camino a la derecha
5.8/4
Upon arrival in Barcelona, Miguel is fired from his job as a sailor and the financial problems which he will face from that moment will gradually intr...
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