David Almeida

David Almeida


in Portugal

Movies for David Almeida...

The Damned Yard
Title: The Damned Yard
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.
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The Nothingness Club
Title: The Nothingness Club
Character: Joaquim Moura-Costa
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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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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Magnetick Pathways
Title: Magnetick Pathways
Character: David
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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The Great Mystical Circus
Title: The Great Mystical Circus
Character: Pinguim
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.
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Title: Sara
Released: October 7, 2018
Type: TV
Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.
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Labirinto
Title: Labirinto
Released: December 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Director Júlio Bessa, who suffers from "stage fright" will make an introduction to his latest film at Festival de Cinema Luso Brasileiro in Santa Maria da Feira.
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Title: A Mãe do Senhor Ministro
Character: Ministro Agostinho Maioral
Released: April 28, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Odisseia
Character: Anão
Released: January 20, 2013
Type: TV
A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.
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The Gravedigger
Title: The Gravedigger
Character: O Anão
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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Jonathas' Forest
Title: Jonathas' Forest
Character: Bushman
Released: October 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The family harvests and sells local products at a roadside fruit stand, a place of contact with new friends and novelties from the rest of the world. They meet Milly, a visitor from Ukraine, and the native Kedassere. The group decides to spend the weekend at a campground in the jungle. Against his father's wishes, Jonathas will embark on this adventure. Seduced by Milly and the forest, he undertakes his most transforming journey.
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Golias
Title: Golias
Character: David
Released: July 3, 2010
Type: Movie
A jester must entertain. But he doesn't always want to.
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The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Title: The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: Diogo
Released: January 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
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Cinerama
Title: Cinerama
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
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O Último Condenado à Morte
Title: O Último Condenado à Morte
Released: May 28, 2009
Type: Movie
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
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Title: Pai à Força
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: TV
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The Art of Stealing
Title: The Art of Stealing
Character: a dwarf
Released: November 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
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The Easy Way
Title: The Easy Way
Character: Le nain Cortez Club
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event.
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Rio Turvo
Title: Rio Turvo
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the “swamp-flower”, protégée of a Socratic Director (and his goat Plato). In a world without women, she is kept safe from the temptations of the flesh by her strict and grotesque Aunt. The sound-track entirely played by the workers (fado and bossa nova singers) reveals parallel narratives of suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the pace of the unconscious leading to a confrontation between Man and River. Inspired by a hypnotic story by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974).
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Tebas
Title: Tebas
Character: Coro
Released: March 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting point is the loss of identity of a generation of Portuguese emigrants. Tebas tells the story of a young man who, looking for his origins, departs from Paris to Portugal with a beatnik truck driver. The film is a voyage into the strange depths of Portugal in the form of surreal road-movie.
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The Botanist
Title: The Botanist
Released: October 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy.
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Lavado em Lágrimas
Title: Lavado em Lágrimas
Released: January 26, 2006
Type: Movie
João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, João meets Ana, his teenage granddaughter, a mysterious character who is beginning to exercise an irresistible fascination for him. With the time João starts to lose the interest in the pigeon breeder and begins to take an interest in Ana and her world, which she only shares with another abandoned kid, until she realizes that her life is full of dark stories.
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The Fifth Empire
Title: The Fifth Empire
Character: Truão
Released: September 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Title: I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: Mini Zombie
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he finds a second shot at true love, but this blooming romance is threatened by the situation plaguing the town.
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Lent
Title: Lent
Character: Pipa
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: Movie
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.
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Ruy Blas
Title: Ruy Blas
Character: Huissier 2 nain lettre
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
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88
Title: 88
Character: Ramiro
Released: October 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.
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Love Torn in Dreams
Title: Love Torn in Dreams
Character: Le Capitaine
Released: August 28, 2000
Type: Movie
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
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Facas e Anjos
Title: Facas e Anjos
Character: Anão 1
Released: March 14, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
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Title: Con(s)certos na Cave
Character: Médico
Released: January 30, 2000
Type: TV
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As Bodas de Deus
Title: As Bodas de Deus
Character: Presidente
Released: October 15, 1999
Type: Movie
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.