Joana de Verona

Joana de Verona

Born: December 8, 1989
in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

Movies for Joana de Verona...

Tinnitus
Title: Tinnitus
Character: Marina Lenk
Released: July 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
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Title: Vanda
Character: Elisa
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: TV
In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Vanda finds herself alone and broke, with two children to raise. She embarks on a string of bank heists using a blonde wig and a toy gun and, in the process, becomes a folk hero.
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Title: Vento Norte
Character: Mariana Guerra
Released: April 14, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Bem Me Quer
Character: Lara Botelho
Released: October 26, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Santos Dumont
Character: Almerinda
Released: November 10, 2019
Type: TV
The story of the man who embodied the great transformations of the turn of the century, acclaimed almost worldwide as the first man to fly a plane - the 14 Bis. Set in France and Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the production follows the aviator's trajectory, from his childhood at his family's coffee plantations in the interior of Minas Gerais, to the sophisticated Paris lounges and air clubs.
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Title: Once We Were Six
Character: Adelaide
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: TV
The plot tells the history and daily life of the Lemos Family between the 1920s and 1940s. Júlio works in a fabric store and has the ambition of getting rich to offer his family a good life. His wife, Lola, does everything she can to keep her family together, because she believes that this way they can move on.
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Drifters of a shadowy dream
Title: Drifters of a shadowy dream
Character: Import / export operatrice
Released: December 10, 2018
Type: Movie
X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding for the film he wrote himself. In the middle of nowhere, as in the nowhere of his life, he stumbles on Y, the woman for whom he has been waiting all his life.
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The Dead Queen
Title: The Dead Queen
Character: Inês
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.
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Title: Valor da Vida
Character: Sara
Released: September 30, 2018
Type: TV
Stories that make us reflect on how we live and on what is the value we give to life. It reinforces the importance of living in the present rather than in the past, an error in which Artur and Carolina fall as soon as they wake up on the same day after years of absence.
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You See the Moon
Title: You See the Moon
Released: July 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Lisbon; after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. An improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion.
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The Territories
Title: The Territories
Released: June 7, 2018
Type: Movie
After the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, Ivan, the frivolous son of a prominent Argentine journalist, embarks on a journey pursuing different geopolitical events around the world.
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Title: A Família Ventura
Character: Hélia Ventura
Released: December 22, 2017
Type: TV
In Vale da Figueira, the Ventura prepare themselves for the first time to spend Christmas without the company of their children and grandchildren. But these plans change a few days before Christmas, when Francisco is taken to the hospital for emergency. This unexpected event will bring everyone inside the same house. Together, they renew their family spirit by accepting the changes that these days of coexistence have brought.
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Praça Paris
Title: Praça Paris
Character: Camila
Released: October 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child and her brother Jonas is a dangerous bandit that is in prison. Increasingly frightened by the reports she hears, she feels threatened at the same time that Glória sees her as essential in her life.
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Love Love
Title: Love Love
Character: Sara
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno's sister and Marta's best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge's friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will imprison him and, convinced that his love and his lover's desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.
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Title: Ouro Verde
Character: Bia Ferreira da Fonseca
Released: January 8, 2017
Type: TV
Zé Maria Magalhães is an innocent young man who, suddenly, sees his dreams and family destroyed by a man's greed: Miguel Ferreira da Fonseca, a powerful banker. For 15 years, Zé Maria is forced to remain hidden, in a life of lies, in another country, imprisoned by the memories of the past, having to assume a new identity. Today, he is a great farmer, owner of the Ouro Verde empire, known as Jorge Monforte, and has become one of the richest men in Brazil. The course of time only fueled his desire for revenge, making him lose the sense of right and wrong and the ability to love. Fifteen years later, he returns to Portugal, ready to avenge the past and destroy Miguel Ferreira da Fonseca.
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Stalin's Couch
Title: Stalin's Couch
Character: Olga
Released: November 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
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At an Uncertain Time
Title: At an Uncertain Time
Character: Madalena
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Title: Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Character: Vânia / Filha da Juíza
Released: July 29, 2015
Type: Movie
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !
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Yulya
Title: Yulya
Character: Yulya
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The emotional journey of Yulya, a fragile and precious young woman.
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Here in Lisbon
Title: Here in Lisbon
Character: (segment "Excursões") / (segment "Freud and Friends")
Released: April 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.
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Excursions
Title: Excursions
Released: April 23, 2015
Type: Movie
In Lisbon, Claudia offers guided tours in and out of the city. At night, she kills time with her sister in a modest apartment. In Lisbon, lonesome Martinho is fluent in Italian and guide tourists all around town. In Lisbon, a band is jamming. They perform improvisational noise jazz. In Lisbon, a mysterious phenomenon fills the air. Claudia and Martinho’s lonely hearts will discreetly meet to the sound of music.
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Freud und Friends
Title: Freud und Friends
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
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Boa Alma
Title: Boa Alma
Released: February 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Luís Mário Lopes wrote the solo A Boa Alma for Mónica Calle in 2015, based on the works of Bertolt Brecht marking the departure of Casa Conveniente from Cais do Sodré and their arrival in the new venue in zona J, Chelas. The original score is by JP Simões.
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Sunny Star
Title: Sunny Star
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
In a strange villa, six young people are getting tanned. They are bored and get burnt, lying under the summer sun. They are children of the night, children of dreams. Coming from everywhere and nowhere, they are here, united like a tribe.
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The Bull
Title: The Bull
Released: January 25, 2015
Type: Movie
There’s a myth that suggests the ghost of the 16th-century Portuguese king Don Sebastiaan founded a magical kingdom on the island of Lençóis off the Brazilian coast after his defeat against the Moors. Five centuries later, a young Portuguese woman (and a small film crew) arrives there. The island is still enchanting.
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The King
Title: The King
Released: October 2, 2014
Type: Movie
A Portuguese king who disappeared in the desert of Morocco in the sixteenth century comes forward. Under the threat of having to return to Portugal in the XXI century, Dom Sebastian reveals his whereabouts and the secrets of the kingdom he built over all these years in faraway Ilha de Lençóis in Northeastern Brazil.
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Law of Gravity
Title: Law of Gravity
Released: June 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Two characters of a portuguese film question their brief existence.
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Bodas de Papel
Title: Bodas de Papel
Character: Helena
Released: June 17, 2014
Type: Movie
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Goodnight Cinderella
Title: Goodnight Cinderella
Character: Cinderela
Released: April 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair.
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Cátia e Ivan
Title: Cátia e Ivan
Character: Cátia
Released: November 29, 2013
Type: Movie
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Plutão
Title: Plutão
Character: Joana
Released: November 14, 2013
Type: Movie
A scientist tells us that Pluto is no longer considered a planet. The feelings of disappointment and nostalgia, and the impossibility of being able to go back to certain moments of his life, make him want to find in the story of David an answer for whatever exists beyond science and reason.
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Title: Os Nossos Dias
Character: Mãe de Alice
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
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Second Hand
Title: Second Hand
Character: Rita
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.
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Title: Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Depois do Adeus
Character: Luísa Cardoso
Released: January 19, 2013
Type: TV
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The Silence Between Two Songs
Title: The Silence Between Two Songs
Character: Laura
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Laura and Lucas live temporarily in Berlin and are set to go back to Lisbon together soon. I guess this is how I think about myself too. That I will go back to Lisbon soon. But I often find myself doubting it and becoming a kind of split self. Because now with this crisis and the very controversial austerity IMF program running in Portugal I found most of my friends leaving Lisbon; and family about to mortgage their homes. I wanted to talk about this feeling of separation that I see in my generation, about this state of being in between an apparent solid past and an unknown future, about this identity in transition.
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Lines of Wellington
Title: Lines of Wellington
Character: Brites
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
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Rafa
Title: Rafa
Character: Sónia
Released: May 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Rafa is a 13 years old kid concerned with his mother, held in a police station for driving without a license. The director shows a day in the life of a teenager who lives on a problematic area and discovers that her mother was arrested because of an automobile accident.
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A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Title: A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Character: Leonor
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.
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Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Eugénia
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
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 him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
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Universo de Mya
Title: Universo de Mya
Character: Mya 3
Released: April 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Eugénia
Released: October 20, 2010
Type: Movie
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 him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Éden
Title: Éden
Character: Eva
Released: December 11, 2009
Type: Movie
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Title: How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Character: Sofia
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
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True and Tender is the North
Title: True and Tender is the North
Released: September 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.