Adriano Luz

AKA: Adriano Manuel Vieira da Luz

0.701

1959-04-09

Porto, Portugal

Biography

Crew Roles

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Director

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

Xavier Oliveira Monteiro

2006-02-24 5.867

Blood Curse

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstitio ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

2010-01-01 0

Respiro

Genre :Drama

Major

2023-05-10 0

Jogos de Enganos

A respectable family falls into crisis when their extensive apple orchard is ruined. Delgado, a wealthy industrialist from the North, has just arrived in the village, apparently with good intentions. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Hélio, Jesus' father

1998-12-31 5.4

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 after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large d ...

Genre :Comedy

2011-10-23 6.5

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 and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dre ...

Genre :

Pinto

1998-04-10 4.444

Black Shoes

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Fernão Lopes

2008-10-11 7.5

Aljubarrota

A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation. ...

Genre :History

Bruno

2023-07-14 8

Blackpot

A reorganization within a crime syndicate. ...

Genre :

Machado

2013-02-28 5.6

Quarta Divisão

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypothe ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Santiago Agustini

2011-10-16 2

Demain?

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the litera ...

Genre :Drama

Filipe

1993-06-25 5

Rosa Negra

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forc ...

Genre :Drama

Manel

2007-11-13 1

Lobos

Genre :Drama

Manel

2000-03-31 6.1

Tarde Demais

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive. ...

Genre :Drama

2008-10-22 7

Entre os Dedos

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities. ...

Genre :Drama

Victor (Vito)

1990-05-04 6.2

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. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Adelino

2001-05-04 7

Get a Life

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to ...

Genre :Drama

Jaime Forza Leal

2004-09-10 4.75

The Murmuring Coast

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a mil ...

Genre :Drama

Virgílio

2022-01-26 0

The Left Behind

In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the ...

Genre :

2007-07-06 0

Weekend

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence." ...

Genre :Drama

Agente Cordeiro

2001-06-09 0

Uma Noite Inesquecível

A lively evening among three friends turns into a nightmare when one of them suffers a heart attack. To avoid confusion, they place their friend in the trunk of the car. However, the car disappears... ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Pê

2022-07-15 9

Pê

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewel ...

Genre :Drama

Stranger

2023-10-31 4

Dialogues After the End

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek my ...

Genre :Drama

Conde de Gouvarinho

2014-09-11 5.9

The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his i ...

Genre :Romance, History, Drama

Bordalo

2012-10-04 5.7

Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

2005-05-20 0

O Mergulho

Based on José Eduardo Agualusa's short story "Bigger Splash," "Mergulho" depicts encounters and missed encounters in love lives, some unlikely, which are dives into life's surprises. ...

Genre :

Manuel Rato

2013-11-07 6.5

Until Tomorrow, Comrades

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Sindicalista / Luís

2015-06-24 7

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their weddi ...

Genre :Drama

2006-04-22 0

Janelas Verdes

Genre :Drama

Pai

2016-03-31 5.6

John From

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn ...

Genre :Drama

Leandro

2024-06-06 6.8

Your Face Will be the Last

Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro. ...

Genre :Drama

Curador

2024-12-25 6.8

Banzo

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is conf ...

Genre :Drama

2007-04-25 0

Before Tomorrow

Genre :Drama

2015-05-16 8

Arabian Nights

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic. ...

Genre :Drama

the husband

2005-06-26 3.375

The Fatalist

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) dri ...

Genre :Drama

Terrorist 1

2002-01-04 3.5

A Bomba

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy

André

2001-04-30 7.4

Camarate

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an a ...

Genre :Drama, Action

2009-08-09 5

Cold Day

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter trace the path of a day by themselves. A film that de ...

Genre :Drama

Pai do Ladrão Amável

2015-07-29 7

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out he ...

Genre :Drama

Alex

2015-02-26 5

Yvone Kane

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled ...

Genre :Drama

Manuel

2002-10-24 7

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" realise that time has accentuated their differences. Th ...

Genre :Drama

Mendez

2013-03-07 6.507

Night Train to Lisbon

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life h ...

Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Sousa

2017-03-09 6.6

Saint George

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a ...

Genre :Drama

Zé Alberto

2000-01-01 0

451 Forte

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder. Fernanda is a ...

Genre :Drama

João

2018-10-31 6.8

Rage

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the dar ...

Genre :Drama

José Lopes

2003-09-12 0

O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily ...

Genre :Drama

Man in Coffee-House

1991-02-16 6.5

Alex

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa. ...

Genre :Drama

Rebocador

2015-04-28 5

O Rebocador

Genre :Drama

António

2001-03-29 0

Querida Mãe

The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead. ...

Genre :Comedy

2020-01-23 7.1

Bruno Aleixo's Film

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, ...

Genre :Comedy, Animation

Médico

2022-06-23 0

Field of Blood

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime. ...

Genre :Drama

João da Beira

2020-10-15 5.4

A Yellow Animal

Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, vo ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Padre Felicidade

2007-04-05 6

DotCom

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A ...

Genre :Comedy

2018-07-19 0

Equinox

I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure. ...

Genre :Drama

Vitor Lobo

2021-07-21 8.1

The Lone Wolf

One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend. ...

Genre :Mystery

Virgílio

2024-10-03 0

Que Mulheres Serão Estas?

A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro Cabeleira (By Flávio), which proposes different possibilities for b ...

Genre :Drama

Padre Diniz

2010-10-21 7.8

Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with ...

Genre :Drama, History

Manuel Pinheiro Alves

2026-09-24 0

Memórias do Cárcere

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860, he in October of the same year, after an adventurous esca ...

Genre :Drama

Azevedo Coutinho

2025-11-01 0

Além do Horizonte - A Travessia

Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

2026-04-23 0

Global Project

In the 1970s, across Europe, left-wing armed movements thrived: ETA in Spain, the IRA in Ireland, the Red Brigades in Italy, and the Baader-Meinhof Group in Germany. Portugal would have to deal with a ...

Genre :Drama, History

Dr. Jorge Oliveira

1997-08-22 0

Senhores Doutores

Genre :Comedy

Padre

2000-01-24 0

A Senhora Ministra

Genre :Comedy

Dramatização

1987-04-25 0

Já Está

Genre :Talk

Raimundo Falcão Coentrinhos

2013-01-27 7

Destinos Cruzados

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Julião Rocha

2015-05-18 0

Will for Revenge

Genre :Soap, Drama

Ambrósio Ramos

2010-05-30 7.5

Espírito Indomável

Genre :Drama

Eduardo Coutinho

2009-06-22 0

Sentimentos

Genre :Soap, Drama

Alberto Mesquita

2022-09-19 6.6

The Secret

Twins who have never seen each other find out they were torn apart at birth. A crime was behind the disappearance of one of them. A romance can keep them from being a family. A secret will bring them ...

Genre :Soap

Fernando Silva Pais

2022-09-21 5.167

Cuba Libre

Cuba Libre tells the story of Annie Silva Pais, the daughter of the last PIDE director, Silva Pais. At the age of 30, Annie Silva Pais left her husband, family and country and left for Cuba, becoming ...

Genre :

Ramalho

2007-01-07 5

Codename: Sintra

The murder of an important politician leads the police to investigate a traditional family. But they already have its share of unsolved crimes, starting with the unclear death of an English officer in ...

Genre :

Carlos

2002-01-02 0

Sociedade Anónima

Genre :

Zé D'Olaia

2000-02-11 7

A Raia dos Medos

Genre :Drama

Armando Ferreira

2011-05-16 7

Remédio Santo

Remédio Santo is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 18 May 2011. ...

Genre :Soap

Negas

1991-01-05 4

Alentejo Sem Lei

Genre :Western, Drama

Maurício

1996-05-17 0

Pensão Estrela

Genre :Comedy

Joaquim Pimenta

2024-06-18 5.906

Broken Promise

The search for love and redemption... Helena is a former secretary of António Fontes Morais’s who cunningly managed to get married to her boss, thus earning the title of a trophy wife. Together, they ...

Genre :Drama

Carlos/Padre Vítor/Adérito Lampreia

1994-12-06 0

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro

Genre :Comedy

Beto

1996-07-15 0

Sai da Minha Vida

Genre :Comedy

Jaime Valente

2007-03-26 0

Ilha dos Amores

Genre :Drama

Eugénio

1998-10-16 0

Uma Casa em Fanicos

Genre :Comedy

Tony Ribeiro

1998-10-21 0

Débora

Genre :Comedy

Lázaro

2020-02-02 5.542

Dry Water

Genre :Drama

Sousa

1995-09-20 0

Barba & Cabelo

Genre :Comedy

João Franco

2008-02-02 0

O Dia do Regicídio

Genre :Drama

Agostinho Lourenço

2020-04-08 5

The Spy

The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infr ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Manuel Rato

2005-01-28 6

Até Amanhã, Camaradas

Genre :Drama, Reality

Humberto

2019-09-28 6.8

South

The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal. ...

Genre :Crime

Father Dinis

2011-05-01 6.6

Mysteries of Lisbon

Genre :Drama

Self - Guest

2009-09-12 9.3

Alta Definição

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach. ...

Genre :Talk

2021-11-05 6.353

Glória

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller. ...

Genre :Drama

Godinho

2024-12-02 0

O Americano

Early 80’s. A group of criminal’s spreads terror across the Algarve with more than 20 bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they call "The Doctor" and a carpenter who earns the nickname of "The Cow ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Western, Crime

Azevedo Coutinho

2025-01-27 0

Star Sailors

The fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Inspetor Pereira

2025-05-09 0

Favàritx

Detectives Marta Serra and Álex Castro are faced with a complex case when Laura Vidal, a prominent government official, is found dead. What begins as an apparent suicide develops into a pattern of mur ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Abel

2025-06-16 5.25

Faro

Genre :

Nélson Figo

2022-09-10 0

Lost in Fuseta - Ein Krimi aus Portugal

Genre :Crime

Agostinho Lourenço/Agostinho Luz

2025-09-08 7.5

Broken Spies

The world is at war. While Portugal seems like an oasis by the Atlantic, its glamorous casinos and secret hideouts become the stage for a network of daring women spies, trading information that could ...

Genre :