Manuel Cavaco

Manuel Cavaco

Born: June 14, 1944
in Lisbon, Portugal

Movies for Manuel Cavaco...

Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó
Title: Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó
Character: António Paulino
Released: August 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Follows the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their precious Necklace of São Cajó, that's been in the family for over 3500 years and hides secrets, curses and a mythical cod recipe.
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The Home Fairy
Title: The Home Fairy
Character: Álvaro
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: Movie
Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence and youth will clash with the authoritarianism and inhumanity of the director. For the elderly who live in the nursing home, Vera is a breath of fresh air that little by little will change their lives, becoming the true home fairy…
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Além do Sol Posto
Title: Além do Sol Posto
Released: September 5, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Sunset
Character: António Paulino
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: Alma e Coração
Character: Nestor Macedo
Released: September 17, 2018
Type: TV
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Blood Lines
Title: Blood Lines
Character: Cliente Tasca
Released: July 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
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Title: País Irmão
Character: Orlando
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: TV
Reality is much stranger than fiction. There is a scandal that could be revealed and the Portuguese Government is nervous. The Minister of Culture and her team have a crazy idea that, for that reason, can work: to produce, together with Brazil, the biggest and most spectacular telenovela of all time: "Corte Tropical".
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Mother Knows Best
Title: Mother Knows Best
Character: Adelino
Released: December 8, 2016
Type: Movie
The family of Ana Luisa meets at home to celebrate her father's birthday. As the guests sit around the table they will share memories of the past, in which all have a common denominator: the late Josefa, Ana Luisa's mother. Hearing the stories, Ana Luisa realizes the impact that his late mother had on their life choices and imagines what would have happened if she had followed other paths, taken other options and said what was unsaid. At the same time, an event of unknown origin causes a change in space and time, enabling people all over the world the access to parallel universes. Ana Luisa will thus have the opportunity to change the past...
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Title: O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Character: Júlio
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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The Courtyard of the Ballads
Title: The Courtyard of the Ballads
Character: Heitor
Released: July 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.
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Title: Poderosas
Character: António Sousa
Released: May 18, 2015
Type: TV
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Lápis Azul
Title: Lápis Azul
Character: Coronel Saraiva
Released: July 1, 2012
Type: Movie
A colonel working for Censorship, widower, learns that his wife read banned books in his absence, "New Portuguese Letters" and "My Lady of Me". The colonel will discover the woman he did not know in life through the poems that she read. As the revolution arrives in April 25, 1974, the Colonel will remain true to their convictions although the poems have already influenced his own life.
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Title: Alta Definição
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: TV
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
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Title: Feitiço de Amor
Character: Joaquim Mestre
Released: June 22, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Amanhecer
Character: Justino Santos
Released: November 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Anjo Selvagem
Character: Luciano
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Olhos de Água
Character: Bicas
Released: February 20, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: A Lenda da Garça
Character: Moretti Rudolfo
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Ifigénio
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Todo o Tempo do Mundo
Character: Manuel Cauteleiro
Released: May 1, 1999
Type: TV
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Fuga
Title: Fuga
Character: Taverner
Released: April 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide.
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Title: Uma Casa em Fanicos
Character: Ricardo
Released: October 16, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Terra Mãe
Character: Augusto Chaves
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Major Alvega
Character: Potenkine
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: A Grande Aposta
Character: Júlio Romero
Released: September 9, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Filhos do Vento
Character: Cabo Raimundo
Released: April 6, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Polícias
Character: Inspector
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Vidas de Sal
Character: Marques da Costa
Released: September 30, 1996
Type: TV
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The Bewitching Braid
Title: The Bewitching Braid
Character: Adozindo's father
Released: July 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Romantic story set in Macau during the 1930s. Rich, Portuguese man falls in love with poor, Chinese girl. Both families disown them and they begin a life together. Rich man now has to work for a living and eats Chinese food exclusively and the relationship gets stale.
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Title: Primeiro Amor
Character: Rogério
Released: May 27, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Roseira Brava
Character: Santa Comba
Released: January 8, 1996
Type: TV
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Ao Sul
Title: Ao Sul
Character: Moura
Released: April 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
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Title: Desencontros
Character: Inspector Rincão
Released: February 1, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Zona+
Character: Próprio
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Os Andrades
Character: Actor na TV (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Na Paz dos Anjos
Character: Crispim Saraiva
Released: April 16, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Verão Quente
Character: Alberto
Released: October 11, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Ideias com História
Character: Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Sozinhos em Casa
Character: Guerreiro
Released: September 15, 1993
Type: TV
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Goodbye Princess
Title: Goodbye Princess
Character: Contreiras
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9
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Aqui D'El Rei!
Title: Aqui D'El Rei!
Character: Saraiva
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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Soluna
Title: Soluna
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
TV-movie based on a play by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
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A Luxury Crime
Title: A Luxury Crime
Released: April 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15:30 to Lisbon a coming emigrant from France with a five year old daughter in her arms and attacks Pontius in his stronghold, demanding recognition of the daughter of sin, Libertina that he had made her "bidonville» on the city of light. Bernarda hires a private detective to obtain evidence of Pontius's adultery with a curvaceous blonde, whose dream was to own butchers, fishmongers and vegetable places in a shopping center. Pontius who all deceived and this triangle (not Bermuda), weaves the web and bore's the head of the entrepreneur. A perfect luxury crime puts the police overtime. Time passes and only after the Seventh Day Mass is brought to light when the sky was given the eclipse of the moon ...
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Title: Terra Instável
Released: January 26, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: O Cacilheiro do Amor
Character: Comandante Alves Teodósio
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: TV
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Mensagem
Title: Mensagem
Character: Adolfo Casais Monteiro
Released: June 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and announcers of the fate of the entire planet.
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Title: Clubíssimo
Character: Joãozinho
Released: May 7, 1988
Type: TV
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Matar Saudades
Title: Matar Saudades
Character: Vasco
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...
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Title: Já Está
Character: Dramatização
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: TV
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Balada da Praia dos Cães
Title: Balada da Praia dos Cães
Character: Tramp
Released: March 12, 1987
Type: Movie
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
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Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Title: Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Character: Clerk
Released: January 27, 1984
Type: Movie
Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.
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Impossível Evasão
Title: Impossível Evasão
Released: October 12, 1983
Type: Movie
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Terra Nova, Mar Velho
Title: Terra Nova, Mar Velho
Character: Manuel Cavaco
Released: March 3, 1983
Type: Movie
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Antes a Sorte Que Tal Morte
Title: Antes a Sorte Que Tal Morte
Released: September 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Luís - ex-student in Lisbon and ex-combatant in Africa - finds, after returning, Maria, secretary who has a relationship with António. He lives in a palace with his children, two old aunts and a Dominican friar, a former missionary.
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Guerra do Mirandum
Title: Guerra do Mirandum
Character: António
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
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Manhã Submersa
Title: Manhã Submersa
Character: Criado
Released: October 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.
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Title: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Character: Prison Guard
Released: December 8, 1979
Type: TV