Maria Leite

Maria Leite

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Title: Lusitânia
Character: Inês Negra
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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Dulcineia
Title: Dulcineia
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Follows Hugo as he takes a gap year and returns to Porto to regain balance with his family, but he attends a concert by Luís Stockman, who plays a theme that Hugo has been writing in his head for years.
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Enchanted Hearts
Title: Enchanted Hearts
Released: July 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Two high schoolers experiment with the means and ways of traditional witchcraft, a bride with a secret has second thoughts on her wedding day, and a loving couple quietly prepares their family for the cataclysmic event to come. Six spellbinding stories about private passions, stolen moments and the bonds we form when the world isn't looking.
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The Smotherer
Title: The Smotherer
Character: Olívia
Released: June 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Vicente is an “abafador”, a smotherer who travels around with the mission of ending the suffering of those who are terminally ill and dying. Tired of living like a criminal, he does one last service but is caught red-handed by a woman.
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Title: Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Released: April 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
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The Infernal Machine
Title: The Infernal Machine
Released: August 7, 2021
Type: Movie
A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.
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Infinite Sea
Title: Infinite Sea
Character: Eva
Released: July 3, 2021
Type: Movie
In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose.
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Simon Calls
Title: Simon Calls
Character: Eva
Released: September 19, 2020
Type: Movie
It's last week at school, but Simon's not studying for his finals. His parents have divorced and seem to be waiting for a change that never comes. Simon gets tired of waiting. Could he get a one-way ticket to the USA? Would it be possible to make objects explode from afar? And what if time could be reversed? Or if freedom is only to be found in movies?
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The Translators
Title: The Translators
Character: Telma Alves
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
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Floating
Title: Floating
Released: November 10, 2019
Type: Movie
On a pleasant full moon evening, a group of friends is playing cards on a terrace overlooking the beach. In the distance, on the open sea, somewhere between eroticism and violence, two young women float over the triteness of their conversations and the absurdity of their actions.
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Mutant Blast
Title: Mutant Blast
Character: Maria
Released: October 24, 2019
Type: Movie
Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.
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Crooked Lines
Title: Crooked Lines
Character: Mariana Macedo
Released: June 27, 2019
Type: Movie
An unexpected meeting on Twitter, introduces young actress Luísa to António, a writer and journalist, who hides his identity using Rasputine as his profile name. This virtual relationship becomes the centre of their lives and one day, they finally decide to meet. But, on his way, António has an accident…
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Quando a Noite Caiu, Descobri Quem Eras
Title: Quando a Noite Caiu, Descobri Quem Eras
Character: Detective
Released: May 23, 2019
Type: Movie
A private detective watches a window.
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Forbidden Images
Title: Forbidden Images
Character: M
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Romantic Comedy directed by Hugo Diogo, based on a novel by Pedro Paixão.
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Bruxa
Title: Bruxa
Character: Sofia
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
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Diamantino
Title: Diamantino
Character: Capitã Lúcia Leite
Released: November 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.
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Damned Summer
Title: Damned Summer
Character: Catarina
Released: August 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.
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Title: Madre Paula
Character: Maria da Luz
Released: July 5, 2017
Type: TV
The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.
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Al Berto, Life Adrift
Title: Al Berto, Life Adrift
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Variations around the texts of the poet Al Berto (1948-1997). In Al Berto´s work, fiction and autobiography converge into a register of reciprocal contamination – as well as lyricism and narrativity. The poetry served Al Berto as a register and memory aid. Therefore, the view is so important in this work: the act of looking confuses itself here with the writings. Thefore, because Al Berto´s poetry is another way of looking, it calls, requests other images that complement the comprehension of the writings, or if they oppose it, then in this opposition, bring new meanings to the reading.
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Saint George
Title: Saint George
Character: Empregada Cardoso 1
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.
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Impossible Love
Title: Impossible Love
Character: Médica
Released: December 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.
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Canal
Title: Canal
Character: Ela
Released: November 20, 2014
Type: Movie
He came from the city and is trying to fit in the countryside – Alentejo. His life is dedicated to picking raspberries, hunting and taking swims in the canal. She is passing through and comes from the world he wanted to leave behind. One day they meet and their attraction is immediate. But their natures prevail over all else: she is free and he's a hunter.
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For Some Inexplicable Reason
Title: For Some Inexplicable Reason
Character: Maria
Released: July 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.
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Title: Uma Família Açoreana
Character: Margarida
Released: October 13, 2013
Type: TV
"An Azorean Family" tells the story of a wealthy family of São Miguel (Azores, Portugal) in the second half of the XIX century.
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Bibliografia
Title: Bibliografia
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1969, four friends built a raft to travel down two Portuguese rivers from the center of the country to Lisbon. Forty years later, the son of one of these men reported this event in a book of poems, as a metaphor of the Portuguese travel literature of the 16Th and 17Th centuries. After, it occurred to him to turn the poems into a real event, to invite some friends to reenact the raft journey and exhibit texts from those peregrinations. His brother went along to film the floating recital.
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Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Title: Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Character: Rapariga do Meio da Rua
Released: May 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.
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Incógnito
Title: Incógnito
Character: Ângela
Released: February 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Lúcia is a lawyer that works to help women whose the father of the relationship deny the paternity. A job she is very keen about since she doesn't know who her father is.
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Hell
Title: Hell
Character: Roxane
Released: May 4, 2011
Type: Movie
In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
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Civil War
Title: Civil War
Character: Joana
Released: April 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Summer of 1982, a beach in the south of Portugal. Rui and his parents live closed in their worlds, blind to the failure that characterizes them as a family and condemns them to the malaise of survival. Rui will have school exams but he is only interested in music and in the exploration of imaginary worlds that he constantly sketches in drawings. Only Joana seems capable of pulling him out of his autism. The girl's vitality fascinates him.
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Ensinamentos para a Vida Adulta
Title: Ensinamentos para a Vida Adulta
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie