Catarina Avelar

Catarina Avelar

Born: January 9, 1939
in Lisbon, Portugal

Movies for Catarina Avelar...

Revolução (Sem) Sangue
Title: Revolução (Sem) Sangue
Character: Senhoria
Released: April 11, 2024
Type: Movie
In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal.
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Title: Sunset
Character: Sónia Maluca
Released: August 16, 2021
Type: TV
Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy...
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Title: Festa é Festa
Character: Glória Leitão
Released: April 26, 2021
Type: TV
A village in the interior of Portugal is preparing the best village festival ever, in the year that marks the centenary of its greatest benefactor. Everyone does their best in organizing the party always with something in mind: the inheritance of the elderly woman.
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Title: Prisioneira
Character: Senhora
Released: May 21, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Alguém Perdeu
Character: Quitéria
Released: March 18, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: O Sábio
Character: Júlia Mendes
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: TV
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Title: O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Character: Beatriz
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.
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Histórias de Alice
Title: Histórias de Alice
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Aqui Tão Longe
Character: Cecília
Released: March 29, 2016
Type: TV
A Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.
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Title: Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Character: Ariete
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: TV
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A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses
Title: A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses
Character: Ermelinda
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life.
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Vidas a Crédito
Title: Vidas a Crédito
Character: Aurora
Released: April 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Sofia is a big spender so she frequently abuses of the credit card. When her husband is fired, she is forced to change her life.
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All Is Well
Title: All Is Well
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
As the summer of 1980 ends, 16 and 17 year old sisters Maria and Alda flee to Lisbon from Angola?s civil war. In the hands of fate, they must learn to live without money in a foreign city. On the edge of the law, the two have to grow up and become women. When the problems are already overwhelming, news comes that makes them unbearable. This blow, however, will give them the push to decide their futures: Alda is going to France and Maria back to Angola in search of her roots.
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Title: Velhos Amigos
Released: September 25, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Redenção
Character: Florinda Natal
Released: June 11, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Maternidade
Character: Irene
Released: January 30, 2011
Type: TV
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O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
Title: O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
Character: Zulmira Zuzarte
Released: October 9, 2010
Type: Movie
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Gigola
Title: Gigola
Character: Georgette Anys
Released: June 6, 2010
Type: Movie
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
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Title: Cidade Despida
Character: Suzete
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Conta-me Como Foi
Character: Hermínia Marques
Released: April 22, 2007
Type: TV
Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
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Title: Camilo Em Sarilhos
Character: Maria Antónia
Released: January 21, 2005
Type: TV
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My Fair Lady: Minha Linda Senhora
Title: My Fair Lady: Minha Linda Senhora
Character: Mrs. Pearce
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, at the head of a luxury cast of more than 70 actors, singers, dancers and musicians.
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Title: Amanhecer
Character: Rosa
Released: November 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Milionários à Força
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Super Pai
Character: Branca
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Keeping Up Appearances
Character: Jacinta Bimbô
Released: September 7, 2000
Type: TV
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances.
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Title: A Lenda da Garça
Character: Filomena
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Ballet Rose
Character: Isaltina
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
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Title: Terra Mãe
Character: Actriz no Teatro
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: TV
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Fátima
Title: Fátima
Character: Old Woman
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
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Title: A Grande Aposta
Character: Helena Ribeiro
Released: September 9, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Polícias
Character: Mãe de Ursula
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Queridas e Maduras
Character: Edite
Released: July 8, 1995
Type: TV
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Paraíso Perdido
Title: Paraíso Perdido
Character: Retornada
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
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Title: Na Paz dos Anjos
Character: Melita Saraiva
Released: April 16, 1994
Type: TV
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Aqui D'El Rei!
Title: Aqui D'El Rei!
Character: Titao (voice)
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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 Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
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The Curse of Marialva
Title: The Curse of Marialva
Character: D. Astrília
Released: November 14, 1991
Type: Movie
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.
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Title: Sabbath
Character: D. Astrília
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: TV
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As Ruínas no Interior
Title: As Ruínas no Interior
Character: Mother
Released: October 21, 1977
Type: Movie
During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.