José Manuel Mendes

AKA: Jose Manuel Mendes
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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {26}

Marcello Caetano

1999-04-24 4.2

A Hora da Liberdade

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy. ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

L'homme chien

2000-11-22 7.5

Love Torn in a Dream

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 unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns w ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Man

2008-01-20 6.3

Heiko

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Silva Porto

2016-02-12 6.3

An Outpost of Progress

At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a ...
Genre :Drama

Raul

2022-10-20 6.5

Índia

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by histo ...
Genre :Drama

José Manuel, Father of Isabel and Joana

1986-12-11 6

A Girl in Summer

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick. ...
Genre :Drama

Conselheiro

2004-09-09 6.5

The Fifth Empire

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire. ...
Genre :History, Drama

Inspecteur Tapos

2022-07-20 5.236

Just Retired 2

Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the b ...
Genre :Comedy

José Manuel Mendes

1983-03-03 0

Terra Nova, Mar Velho

Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

Antunes

1995-01-01 7

Paraíso Perdido

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times ...
Genre :Drama

Man (segment "Heiko")

2010-04-26 3.5

Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want

Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gripping British film debut that sees him woo a young lad in an underpass, only to be threatened with a ...
Genre :Horror, Drama

Dr. Matias

2010-12-29 6.5

The Strange Case of Angelica

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life jus ...
Genre :Drama

1988-11-10 6.8

The Cannibals

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Pa ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Miguel, the priest

1993-01-15 0

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the ...
Genre :Drama

1992-08-21 5.5

No Dia dos Meus Anos

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air. ...
Genre :Drama

Técnico Segurança Social

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

Old Henrique (voice)

2021-07-30 6.4

The Metamorphosis of Birds

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother, Beatriz, on her 21st birthday, spent extended periods ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Joaquim Antunes

2020-10-31 4.8

The Last Bath

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled. ...
Genre :Drama, Animation

Torcato Roper

2002-05-17 5.2

The Uncertainty Principle

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family. ...
Genre :Drama

Idalino

2021-07-16 0

Empty Hands

A dark and surreal comedy about a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for life advice. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Sr. Guimarães

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

2023-05-02 0

Uma História do Espectador de Cinema

Genre :Documentary

Frei Baltasar

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

José

1988-09-15 9

The secret files of Inspector Lavardin

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 199 ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Friar Baltasar da Encarnação

2011-05-01 6.6

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

António Magalhães

2020-12-18 8

Mrs. Hope

Mrs. Hope is a charismatic octogenarian widow, living alone in a pleasant apartment in Lisbon along with her cat Baltazar, since her husband died, years ago. Mrs. Hope is not like some other older pe ...
Genre :Drama, Family