Joaquim de Almeida
Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born March 15, 1957) is a Portuguese actor.
He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five. His other well known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Only You (1994), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008).
He has worked in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions, winning several international awards.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 16.823 |
| Birthday | 1957-03-15 |
| Place of Birth | São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Also Known As | Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida , |
2001
Stranded
5.4/41
A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of mi...
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Stranded
2007
The Heart of the Earth
5.3/5
Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.
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The Heart of the Earth
2007
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
6.123/369
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hosta...
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2004
The Life
4.7/32
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
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The Life
2008
La conjura de El Escorial
5/8
16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal
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La conjura de El Escorial
2001
Behind Enemy Lines
6.398/1495
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets sh...
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Behind Enemy Lines
1995
Desperado
6.927/2858
El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho,...
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Desperado
2008
Che: Part Two
6.653/617
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...
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Che: Part Two
2007
La Cucina
4.5/12
A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".
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La Cucina
1994
Only You
6.758/513
Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to m...
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Only You
2023
Fast X
7.07/5691
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, the...
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Fast X
1994
Clear and Present Danger
6.648/1504
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman,...
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Clear and Present Danger
2007
Call Girl
6/20
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land...
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Call Girl
2002
Sweat
5.725/20
Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.
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Sweat
1999
No Vacancy
4.333/12
In a surreal motel in Los Angeles, the life of several sordid characters intertwine.
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No Vacancy
2003
Il fuggiasco
7/2
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Il fuggiasco
2002
Break of Dawn
4.9/23
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politi...
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Break of Dawn
2001
The Xango from Baker Street
6.5/38
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve t...
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The Xango from Baker Street
2005
A Shot in the Dark
5.6/6
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fir...
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A Shot in the Dark
1992
The Fencing Master
6.2/17
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fasci...
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The Fencing Master
1995
Pereira Declares
6.635/78
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil wa...
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Pereira Declares
1987
Good Morning, Babylon
6.2/34
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventu...
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Good Morning, Babylon
2006
The Celestine Prophecy
5/71
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a w...
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The Celestine Prophecy
1997
Tale About the Cat and the Moon
6/9
A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tr...
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Tale About the Cat and the Moon
1998
Dollar for the Dead
5.2/10
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in, Emilio Estevez assumes Clint Eastwoo...
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Dollar for the Dead
1983
The Honorary Consul
5.7/49
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to...
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The Honorary Consul
2003
The Immortals
7/10
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and rememb...
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The Immortals
2011
Fast Five
7.242/8223
Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they...
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Fast Five
2000
April Captains
6.46/58
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salaz...
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April Captains
1997
Women
4.8/4
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
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Women
2012
Mamitas
5.7/7
A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.
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Mamitas
1982
The Soldier
5.459/37
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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The Soldier
2010
Backlight
6.4/37
Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where t...
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Backlight
2010
Christopher Roth
4.7/6
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own.
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Christopher Roth
2009
Holy Money
0/0
Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineya...
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Holy Money
1998
La Cucaracha
3.9/8
A desperate writer fights for survival when the Mexican mob involves him in murder.
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La Cucaracha
1991
The Dumbfounded King
5.887/31
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa,...
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The Dumbfounded King
1990
Sandino
6/8
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
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Sandino
1995
Adam and Eve
5/10
Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child,...
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Adam and Eve
2023
The Palace
5.4/165
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
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The Palace
2001
His Master's Voice
5.5/11
Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationalist terrorism, Charli works as a chauffeur for Oliv...
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His Master's Voice
2001
Water and Salt
4.8/4
Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, beca...
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Water and Salt
1999
Inferno
6.3/3
Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and r...
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Inferno
2022
God Save the Queens
2/1
A dramedy about four Drag Queens who find themselves at the very same therapy retreat. In an effort to overcome issues holding them back, they dissect...
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God Save the Queens
2013
Three-60
4/14
Guillermo (Raúl Mérida) is a passionate young college surf casually discovering an old photographic film. In the photographs are enigmatic images and...
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Three-60
2013
Robosapien: Rebooted
5.31/58
A robotic boy and a human boy join forces to save their parents from the organization that funded the robot's creator.
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Robosapien: Rebooted
2013
The Gilded Cage
6.7/333
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear litt...
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The Gilded Cage
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
2008
Oscar. The color of destiny
1/1
"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Pica...
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Oscar. The color of destiny
1997
Fátima
7/3
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portug...
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Fátima
1994
Uma Vida Normal
6.5/2
Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.
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Uma Vida Normal
1997
Tentação
6.6/6
Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a...
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Tentação
1999
On the Run
5.1/4
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from p...
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On the Run
2008
The Burning Plain
6.619/432
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic...
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The Burning Plain
2014
The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail
6.7/3
Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many adventures travelling around the world as a capta...
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The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail
2023
O Último Animal
5.8/4
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O Último Animal
2014
Atlas Shrugged: Part III
4.3/78
Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brut...
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Atlas Shrugged: Part III
1997
Corazón loco
5/1
Félix (Juanjo Puigcorbé), a likeable and careerist flat salesman, wants to be the commercial director of his company at all costs. The bad thing is th...
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Corazón loco
2014
Of Mind and Music
6/10
Dr. Alvaro Cruz, a neuroscientist, disillusioned by the death of his mother and his inability to help her, finds redemption and reward by helping Una...
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Of Mind and Music
2024
Road House
6.959/2351
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
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Road House
2006
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
4.9/8
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatica...
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Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
1994
El baile de las ánimas
6.3/7
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El baile de las ánimas
1991
Alex
6/5
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
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Alex
Epitaph
0/0
An ex-Army marksman's plan to avenge the murder of his parents brings him into business with a murder-for-hire organization and the C.I.A.
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Epitaph
2014
Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun
5.6/4
An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.
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Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun
2015
A Date with Miss Fortune
5.5/36
When a struggling writer meets a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and luck are both about to change. A romantic comedy ab...
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A Date with Miss Fortune
1999
One Man's Hero
5.333/21
One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the C...
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One Man's Hero
2015
Our Brand Is Crisis
5.844/494
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
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Our Brand Is Crisis
2023
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
0/0
A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.
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Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2016
Diablo
4.9/170
A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
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Diablo
2024
Smoke Signals
6.7/27
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member...
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Smoke Signals
1992
A Passing Season
5/3
As he does at the end of every summer, Antonio climbs onto his roof to sweep out his chimney. From this vantage point, he sees that repairs have begun...
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A Passing Season
1988
Terre sacrée
0/0
A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.
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Terre sacrée
2017
Downsizing
5.363/3821
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...
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Downsizing
1987
The Sun and the Moon
0/0
Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican cultura...
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The Sun and the Moon
1989
Les Deux Fragonard
4/2
The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and...
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Les Deux Fragonard
1988
Disamistade
6/1
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Disamistade
2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard
6.894/6199
The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside an...
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The Hitman's Bodyguard
1993
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
0/0
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunn...
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
1992
Cold Land
2.5/2
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 fox fur...
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Cold Land
1987
Milan noir
0/0
The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.
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Milan noir
1999
Vendetta
6.313/16
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's....
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Vendetta
2018
Breaking & Exiting
6.1/98
Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from he...
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Breaking & Exiting
2006
Moscow Zero
3.4/30
In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about th...
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Moscow Zero
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
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
2019
An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
0/0
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
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An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
2020
Fatima
7.2/181
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who t...
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Fatima
2008
The Lovebirds
5/1
THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who...
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The Lovebirds
1991
El día que nací yo
4.3/3
A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora...
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El día que nací yo
1993
Amok
6/2
Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules o...
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Amok
2020
The Legion
5.952/126
Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his s...
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The Legion
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!
1995
Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida
0/0
A five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado.
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Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida
1991
Retrato de Família
0/0
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides...
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Retrato de Família
2006
Love and Debate
3.7/6
A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault...
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Love and Debate
2023
Missing
7.436/1043
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuc...
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Missing
1988
Priceless Beauty
3.3/7
A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.
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Priceless Beauty
2019
Looking for Cesária Évora
6/1
Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, mu...
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Looking for Cesária Évora
2022
Land of Dreams
4.615/13
Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control...
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