Virgílio Castelo

Virgílio Castelo

Born: February 26, 1953
in Lisbon, Portugal

Movies for Virgílio Castelo...

Title: Senhora do Mar
Character: Adérito Ramalho
Released: February 5, 2024
Type: TV
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Homo Verum
Title: Homo Verum
Character: Dr. Fidalgo
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1894, Gabriel, an ambitious medicine graduate, spends his summer learning from the renowned Doctor Fidalgo in his isolated Mansion. Upon developing a lustful admiration for Fidalgo's wife, the young doctor is forced to break his morals.
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Title: Abandonados
Character: Canto de Resende
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him.
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O Ego de Egas
Title: O Ego de Egas
Character: Sobral Cid
Released: December 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Egas Moniz biography, the only portuguese Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Title: Terra Nova
Character: Capitão Silva
Released: June 3, 2020
Type: TV
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Terra Nova
Title: Terra Nova
Character: Capitão Silva
Released: March 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the way, he has to face storms, crew revolt and deal with the best and the worst of humanity when tested in extreme circumstances.
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Title: Terra Brava
Character: Francisco Ferreira
Released: October 28, 2019
Type: TV
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.
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St. Louis
Title: St. Louis
Character: Dr. Josef Joseph
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.
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Title: Nazaré
Character: António Blanco
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope.
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Rapiscimi
Title: Rapiscimi
Released: March 13, 2018
Type: Movie
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O Fim da Inocência
Title: O Fim da Inocência
Character: Fernando
Released: November 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.
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Title: País Irmão
Character: Tony Santa Clara
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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Cold Phosphorus
Title: Cold Phosphorus
Character: Afonso Luís Campos
Released: February 10, 2017
Type: Movie
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Title: Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Character: Macedo Soares
Released: June 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
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Title: Terapia
Character: Mário Magalhães
Released: January 4, 2016
Type: TV
The show follows Mário Magalhães, a psychotherapist, through his weekly meetings with his patients, including his appointment with his own therapist.
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Title: Mulheres
Character: Hélder Peralta
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: TV
The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.
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Contactos 2.0
Title: Contactos 2.0
Character: Produtor
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A man downloads a mobile app that gives terrible power over his contacts.
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Bairro
Title: Bairro
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.
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Quarta Divisão
Title: Quarta Divisão
Character: Director Nacional PSP (voice)
Released: February 28, 2013
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?
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Title: Destinos Cruzados
Character: Jaime Veiga de Andrade
Released: January 27, 2013
Type: TV
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O Outro Lado da Mentira
Title: O Outro Lado da Mentira
Released: July 13, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: A Família Mata
Character: Dário
Released: March 7, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Regresso a Sizalinda
Character: Vitalino
Released: July 17, 2010
Type: TV
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The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Title: The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: Gonçalo
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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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: Paulo Amorim
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures... ~ FICA
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A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera
Title: A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera
Character: Francisco Figueiredo
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.
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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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Star Crossed
Title: Star Crossed
Character: Pedro Escalus
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.
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Title: Podia Acabar o Mundo
Character: Eduardo Morais
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: TV
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True and Tender is the North
Title: True and Tender is the North
Character: Almeida Garrett
Released: September 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
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Doomed Love
Title: Doomed Love
Character: João da Cruz
Released: August 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.
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Title: O Dia do Regicídio
Character: Afonso Costa
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: TV
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Call Girl
Title: Call Girl
Character: Health Minister
Released: December 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: the Vice-President
Released: November 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
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Fin de curso
Title: Fin de curso
Released: July 15, 2005
Type: Movie
There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
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Title: Mistura Fina
Character: Justino Lampreia
Released: November 29, 2004
Type: TV
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A Passagem da Noite
Title: A Passagem da Noite
Character: delegado do Ministério Público
Released: March 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.
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Title: Saber Amar
Character: António
Released: January 20, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: O Olhar da Serpente
Character: Rui Albuquerque Botelho
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: TV
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Crónica Feminina
Title: Crónica Feminina
Character: Vasco
Released: March 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things
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Title: Um Estranho em Casa
Character: Francisco da Cunha
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Segredo de Justiça
Character: Eduardo
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Filha do Mar
Character: Diogo
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: A Senhora das Águas
Character: João Manuel
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Teorema de Pitágoras
Title: Teorema de Pitágoras
Character: António
Released: May 27, 2001
Type: Movie
João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he meets Ana. That girl will change his life and the way he sees the relationships between men and women, but not before a "little problem" called Sofia - a TV star in the movie - come into their relationship
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Camarate
Title: Camarate
Character: Diogo
Released: April 30, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.
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Title: Olhos de Água
Character: Padre Eduardo
Released: February 20, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Super Pai
Character: Alexandre
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Ajuste de Contas
Character: Inspector Soares
Released: November 13, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Todo o Tempo do Mundo
Character: Miguel Faria
Released: May 1, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Diário de Maria
Character: Miguel Gaspar
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Ballet Rose
Character: Polícia Álvaro
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
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Title: Riscos
Character: Edmundo
Released: October 4, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: A Grande Aposta
Character: Francisco Ramos
Released: September 9, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Filhos do Vento
Character: Jorge Abrantes
Released: April 6, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Polícias
Character: Norberto
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Vidas de Sal
Character: João Fragoso
Released: September 30, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Roseira Brava
Character: Manolo
Released: January 8, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Pedro Caldeirada
Released: December 6, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Ideias com História
Character: Zé do Telhado
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Sozinhos em Casa
Character: Professor Castelo
Released: September 15, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Procura-se
Character: Jorge Tavares Ribeiro
Released: July 3, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Parabéns
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Marina, Marina
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: O Mandarim
Character: Diabo
Released: November 9, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Joaquim Letria
Character: Theo Van Gogh
Released: October 24, 1990
Type: TV
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Pau Preto
Title: Pau Preto
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Passerelle
Character: António Gonzaga
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.
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Title: Humor de Perdição
Character: Porfírio
Released: April 3, 1988
Type: TV
"Humor de Perdição" was a humorous television program, broadcast by RTP in 1987
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Meia Noite
Title: Meia Noite
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Jester
Title: The Jester
Character: Soldier
Released: October 31, 1987
Type: Movie
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
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Title: Já Está
Character: Dramatização
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: TV
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A Girl in Summer
Title: A Girl in Summer
Character: João
Released: December 11, 1986
Type: Movie
It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.
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Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
Title: Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
Released: August 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.
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Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
Title: Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
Released: February 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptical and painful attitude...
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Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Title: Saudades Para Dona Genciana
Character: Augusto Gomes
Released: January 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.
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The Satin Slipper
Title: The Satin Slipper
Character: Officer
Released: September 24, 1985
Type: Movie
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
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Lives
Title: Lives
Character: Dynamiter in Prison
Released: October 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.
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Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
Title: Chronicle of Good Hoodlums
Character: Carlos
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!
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Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Title: Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Character: Doctor
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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Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros
Title: Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl.
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Title: Vila Faia
Character: Pedro Castella
Released: May 10, 1982
Type: TV
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A Vida É Bela?!
Title: A Vida É Bela?!
Character: Teodoro Galã
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
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The Donkey-Eared Prince
Title: The Donkey-Eared Prince
Character: General / Médico Galezus
Released: August 29, 1980
Type: Movie
In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.