João Guedes

João Guedes

Born: July 3, 1921
Died: February 19, 1983

Movies for João Guedes...

Dirty Laundry
Title: Dirty Laundry
Released: June 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Two millennials: Richard, a film studies student, and Ethan, a music producer preparing to launch his own startup—share a flat in Macau with a cherished washing machine, affectionately named R3D2. When they suddenly need to dispose of it, though, the two Westerners embark on a nine-minute journey of desperation, misdemeanors, and language barriers that folds the history of Macau into a dryly funny take on the myth of Sisyphus.
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A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
Title: A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
Character: Professor Antena
Released: July 27, 1983
Type: Movie
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
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The Siren's Song
Title: The Siren's Song
Character: Tio Cabaça
Released: July 13, 1983
Type: Movie
Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
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Circle of Passions
Title: Circle of Passions
Released: July 6, 1983
Type: Movie
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
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Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
Title: Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
Character: Lehrer
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
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Silvestre
Title: Silvestre
Character: D. Rodrigo
Released: May 6, 1982
Type: Movie
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
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Francisca
Title: Francisca
Character: Marques
Released: December 3, 1981
Type: Movie
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
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Velhos são os Trapos
Title: Velhos são os Trapos
Released: March 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.
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O Defunto
Title: O Defunto
Released: January 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
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Trails
Title: Trails
Character: The Lord of the Lands
Released: May 19, 1978
Type: Movie
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
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The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
Title: The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.
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A Bee in the Rain
Title: A Bee in the Rain
Character: Álvaro Silvestre
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
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Change of Life
Title: Change of Life
Character: Inácio
Released: April 20, 1967
Type: Movie
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
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Enchanted Isles
Title: Enchanted Isles
Character: Faial
Released: March 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
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Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico
Title: Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico
Character: Dr. Valença
Released: June 1, 1963
Type: Movie
João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.