Joaquim Leitão

Joaquim Leitão

Born: December 21, 1956

Movies for Joaquim Leitão...

Nothing Ever Happened
Title: Nothing Ever Happened
Character: Arnaldo
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.
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The Black Book
Title: The Black Book
Character: Pozzebonelli
Released: October 3, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Title: Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Character: Sem Abrigo
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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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Night Train to Lisbon
Title: Night Train to Lisbon
Character: Principal
Released: March 7, 2013
Type: Movie
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 he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
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Quarta Divisão
Title: Quarta Divisão
Character: Pedopsiquiatra
Released: February 28, 2013
Type: Movie
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 hypotheses are possible: What happened?
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Call Girl
Title: Call Girl
Character: Andrade
Released: December 27, 2007
Type: Movie
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-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
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O Capacete Dourado
Title: O Capacete Dourado
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: Movie
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
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Before Tomorrow
Title: Before Tomorrow
Released: April 25, 2007
Type: Movie
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98 Octanas
Title: 98 Octanas
Character: Padre
Released: March 14, 2006
Type: Movie
He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."
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Outside
Title: Outside
Character: Joaquim
Released: April 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.
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Portugal S.A.
Title: Portugal S.A.
Character: homeless
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.
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O Delfim
Title: O Delfim
Character: Ex-combatente
Released: March 13, 2002
Type: Movie
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.
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April Captains
Title: April Captains
Character: Filipe
Released: April 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
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Jaime
Title: Jaime
Character: Abel
Released: March 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
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Sinais de Fogo
Title: Sinais de Fogo
Character: Party Officer
Released: November 3, 1995
Type: Movie
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Title: Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.
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Uma Vida Normal
Title: Uma Vida Normal
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
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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On the Edge of the Horizon
Title: On the Edge of the Horizon
Released: November 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
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Meia Noite
Title: Meia Noite
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Jester
Title: The Jester
Character: Camilo
Released: October 31, 1987
Type: Movie
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
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A Girl in Summer
Title: A Girl in Summer
Character: Quim
Released: December 11, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Dead Man's Seat
Title: Dead Man's Seat
Released: October 25, 1984
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
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Um S Marginal
Title: Um S Marginal
Character: Jorge, o Filho do Político
Released: August 4, 1983
Type: Movie
In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers will be installed. With the ecological balance seriously threatened, domestic animals disappear from the cities and return to wildlife in upland areas. On hearing of his sister's death in a road disaster, Jorge tries to warn his father - who, meanwhile, leaves for a secretly kept house, as a refuge and resting place.