Valdemar Santos

Valdemar Santos

Born: August 6, 1963
in Benguela, Angola

Movies for Valdemar Santos...

Amelia’s Children
Title: Amelia’s Children
Character: Amigo da Sra. Vieira
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: Movie
When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.
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Title: Lusitânia
Character: Inácio
Released: November 13, 2023
Type: TV
A collection of six distinct stories drawn from a rich and extensive body of folklore that narrates Iberian mythology. This epic series weaves a tapestry of myths and tales while tackling fantasy, horror, humor, and drama.
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Dialogues After the End
Title: Dialogues After the End
Character: Beggar
Released: October 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
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A Sibila
Title: A Sibila
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: Movie
In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
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O Pio dos Mochos
Title: O Pio dos Mochos
Character: Avô Paulo
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
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The Nothingness Club
Title: The Nothingness Club
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.
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Alma Viva
Title: Alma Viva
Character: Pastor
Released: November 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.
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Down by Life
Title: Down by Life
Released: October 29, 2020
Type: Movie
A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.
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Before the Mountains
Title: Before the Mountains
Character: Jorge Soqueiro
Released: September 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
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Surdine
Title: Surdine
Character: Gomes
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: Movie
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.
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Mosquito
Title: Mosquito
Character: Soldado do Cigarro
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.
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Magnetick Pathways
Title: Magnetick Pathways
Character: Adherent to Ktulu
Released: April 25, 2019
Type: Movie
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
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Title: 2' Minutos para Mudar de Vida
Character: Neca
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
Title: Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
Released: January 28, 2019
Type: Movie
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.
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Augur
Title: Augur
Released: June 5, 2018
Type: Movie
During a harsh winter, a river by the house of two cousins freezes over. In the cold wind, their relationship grows bitter, reaching its limits.
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Uma Vida Sublime
Title: Uma Vida Sublime
Character: Almeida
Released: February 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?
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Luana
Title: Luana
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Luana plays between trains and swings while she waits for her father on the other side of the line.
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Amantes na Fronteira
Title: Amantes na Fronteira
Released: December 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.
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O dia em que as cartas pararam
Title: O dia em que as cartas pararam
Character: Pereira
Released: May 21, 2017
Type: Movie
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Carga
Title: Carga
Released: May 6, 2017
Type: Movie
In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal with the adversities of being left behind.
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Ubi Sunt
Title: Ubi Sunt
Character: Man
Released: December 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical) Hybrid and eclectic project, it is the outcome of a audiovisual research residency of humam and urban exploration of an expanding city. Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before us?". Reflective essay on mortality and life's transience, it emerges from that dialectic, of a and episodic and fragmented structure with a choreographed cinematography; where the memory intersects the contemporary.
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Por Diabos
Title: Por Diabos
Released: July 16, 2016
Type: Movie
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The Amazed Spectator
Title: The Amazed Spectator
Character: Spectator
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
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Ornament and Crime
Title: Ornament and Crime
Character: Amolador
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.
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Title: Coração d’Ouro
Character: Sr. Antunes
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: TV
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The Keeper
Title: The Keeper
Character: Constantino
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Constantino works as a keeper of flocks during the day and as a keeper of a museum during the night. He works continuously since he has nowhere to live. Aurora passes by him every morning and end of the day. One day she is brave enough to talk to him.
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A Caverna
Title: A Caverna
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.
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Pena Fria
Title: Pena Fria
Character: Man
Released: September 20, 2014
Type: Movie
A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
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Liberdade Condicional
Title: Liberdade Condicional
Character: Antunes
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Five low-life people find themselves trapped in a public toilet.
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3x3D
Title: 3x3D
Released: May 22, 2013
Type: Movie
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
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Title: Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: TV
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A Ceia
Title: A Ceia
Character: Luís
Released: March 16, 2013
Type: Movie
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The Gravedigger
Title: The Gravedigger
Character: O Pai
Released: December 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.
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Historic Centre
Title: Historic Centre
Character: Valdemar
Released: November 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
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Hay Road
Title: Hay Road
Character: Tasqueiro
Released: June 28, 2012
Type: Movie
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.
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Broken Windows
Title: Broken Windows
Character: Valdemar
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.
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The Scoundrel
Title: The Scoundrel
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.
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Quem é o Pai do Menino Jesus?
Title: Quem é o Pai do Menino Jesus?
Character: Empregado de Mesa
Released: December 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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De Castigo
Title: De Castigo
Character: Pai de Samuel
Released: November 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Many years after having been locked in the basement by his father, Samuel believes he is still grounded.
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Momentos
Title: Momentos
Released: March 13, 2010
Type: Movie
A homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases inside. Meanwhile the man tries to understand what is going on.
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Arca D'Água
Title: Arca D'Água
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.
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Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse
Title: Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.
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A Luz Era uma Pausa
Title: A Luz Era uma Pausa
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
New film by Luís Costa, based on the novel 'Grito' by Rui Nunes.