Adelaide João
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.701 |
| Birthday | 1921-07-27 |
| Place of Birth | Lisboa, Portugal |
| Also Known As | Maria da Glória Silva, |
1983
Three Crowns of the Sailor
7.2/34
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his a...
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Three Crowns of the Sailor
2009
Contrato
5.3/5
Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.
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Contrato
2003
A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
4.2/4
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.
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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
1981
Francisca
7.5/26
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
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Francisca
2007
No... Just Passing By
0/0
Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination.
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No... Just Passing By
1972
O Recado
0/0
Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal.
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O Recado
2010
Blarghaaahrgarg
4.5/4
Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest...
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Blarghaaahrgarg
1980
Manhã Submersa
5.2/5
Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youn...
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Manhã Submersa
1973
Portugal... Minha Saudade
6.7/3
Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives in Lisbon and writes inviting him to go to Portugal...
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Portugal... Minha Saudade
1975
A Cama
0/0
A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until they...
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A Cama
1978
Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
5.5/2
With a strong documentary element, "Nós Por Cá Todos Bem" mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling the story of a sm...
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Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
1983
Impossível Evasão
0/0
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Impossível Evasão
1981
Oxalá
2/1
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
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Oxalá
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
2005
Fin de curso
5/5
There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decisi...
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Fin de curso
1983
Terra Nova, Mar Velho
0/0
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Terra Nova, Mar Velho
1965
The Real Bargain
1/1
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac w...
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The Real Bargain
O Desassossego de Pessoa
0/0
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O Desassossego de Pessoa
2010
1st Time 16mm
2/1
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon,...
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1st Time 16mm
1983
A Noite de Walpurgis
5/3
A Noite de Walpurgis is a fantastic tale by Hugo Rocha, admittedly inspired by Goethe's Faust. The narrator-protagonist reveals a story told to him by...
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A Noite de Walpurgis
1981
O Defunto
5/3
Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
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O Defunto
1980
O Visconde
5/4
O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.
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O Visconde
1983
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
5/3
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when h...
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A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
2000
Alta Fidelidade
0/0
Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay...
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Alta Fidelidade
1993
The End of the World
5.7/3
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..
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The End of the World
1982
The State of Things
6.5/70
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is...
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The State of Things
1970
The Circle
7.2/5
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She...
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The Circle
1979
Doomed Love
6.8/14
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
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Doomed Love
1980
The Holy Alliance
0/0
In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled...
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The Holy Alliance
1993
Marie
3.5/2
Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.
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Marie
1993
On the Edge of the Horizon
5.4/7
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
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On the Edge of the Horizon
1980
The Donkey-Eared Prince
0/0
In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess C...
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The Donkey-Eared Prince
1972
Just Pedro
3.4/5
Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't f...
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Just Pedro
1987
Saint-Tropez Vice
4.2/8
A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.
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Saint-Tropez Vice
1990
The King's Trial
5.8/5
At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of...
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The King's Trial
1983
Circle of Passions
1/0
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his w...
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Circle of Passions
2002
A Falha
7.5/2
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" reali...
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A Falha
2006
Ensaio Sobre o Teatro
0/0
This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “E...
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Ensaio Sobre o Teatro
1987
Repórter X
0/0
A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
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Repórter X
1968
Um Campista em Apuros
0/0
While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that contains...
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Um Campista em Apuros
1983
The Siren's Song
5/3
Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
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The Siren's Song
1969
O Diabo Era Outro
0/0
Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company.
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O Diabo Era Outro
1978
O Viajante
0/0
Abílio is a travelling salesman with as much ability to sell as he is inconvenient. He makes a stop Mrs. Etelvina's pension for business and something...
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O Viajante
1982
A Vida É Bela?!
8.1/6
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a...
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A Vida É Bela?!
1987
The Jester
6.5/8
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells g...
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The Jester
1992
Aqui D'El Rei!
5.8/4
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief...
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Aqui D'El Rei!
2009
Um Funeral à Chuva
5.8/3
A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In fulfilli...
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Um Funeral à Chuva
2004
Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara
0/0
How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O B...
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Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara
1988
Young Toscanini
5.9/8
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
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Young Toscanini
2014
Cats Don't Have Vertigo
7.2/20
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo
2002
In That Neighbouhood
0/0
Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the time. One of her...
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In That Neighbouhood
1982
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
0/0
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Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
2002
Ruy Blas
5.5/2
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 compr...
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Ruy Blas
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
1974
Meus Amigos
5/2
Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten year...
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Meus Amigos
2009
April Showers
4/1
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 win...
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April Showers
1986
Exit-exil
7/2
A drama of passion and social conscience.
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Exit-exil
1985
O Vestido Cor de Fogo
0/0
José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 a...
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O Vestido Cor de Fogo
2000
Peixe-Lua
5/4
The story of a family of bull fighters.
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Peixe-Lua
1991
The Curse of Marialva
2/1
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workin...
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The Curse of Marialva
1989
Luísa e os Outros
0/0
The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
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Luísa e os Outros
1980
The Fault
0/0
Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the killing...
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The Fault
1962
Dom Roberto
5.8/4
João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. F...
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Dom Roberto
1988
The Beggars
5/1
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while wom...
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