Gonçalo Waddington

Gonçalo Waddington

Born: September 25, 1977
in Lisboa, Portugal

Movies for Gonçalo Waddington...

Title: Vai Correr Tudo Bem
Character: Manuel
Released: November 26, 2023
Type: TV
This is a fictional series with biographical elements where Guilherme Geirinhas tries to make everything go well.
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Vai Correr Tudo Bem
Title: Vai Correr Tudo Bem
Character: Manuel Geirinhas
Released: October 15, 2023
Type: Movie
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Banzo
Title: Banzo
Released: April 28, 2023
Type: Movie
1907. Afonso starts life anew on a tropical island of the African coast as a doctor on a cocoa plantation. He will have to cure a group of servants “infected” by a disease known as Banzo, the nostalgia of the slaves. They are dying by the dozens, from starvation or suicide. By fear that this deep nostalgia is contagious, the group is sent to an isolated and rainy hill, surrounded by the forest. There, Afonso tries to cure the servants, but his inability to understand their soul proves to be stronger than all the solutions.
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Nothing Ever Happened
Title: Nothing Ever Happened
Character: Pai Paulo
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.
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Remains of the Wind
Title: Remains of the Wind
Character: Vítor
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.
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Title: Natural Law
Character: Attorney Renato
Released: January 5, 2022
Type: TV
After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk.
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Title: Glória
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: TV
A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.
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O Outro Lado de Patrick
Title: O Outro Lado de Patrick
Character: Himself
Released: August 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists.
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Bruno Aleixo's Film
Title: Bruno Aleixo's Film
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.
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Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
Title: Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
Character: Bancário Pacote de Açúcar
Released: November 21, 2019
Type: Movie
The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve.
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Patrick
Title: Patrick
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.
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Title: Teorias da Conspiração
Character: Pedro Soares Teixeira
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: TV
Conspiracy Theories
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Mariphasa
Title: Mariphasa
Character: Segurança
Released: July 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything threatens to crack.
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Saint George
Title: Saint George
Character: Chef Cardoso
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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Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Title: Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Character: Passarinheiro
Released: August 26, 2015
Type: Movie
In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Title: Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Character: Filho que rouba / Careto / Vasco
Released: July 29, 2015
Type: Movie
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !
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The Portuguese Falcon
Title: The Portuguese Falcon
Character: Capitão Falcão
Released: April 23, 2015
Type: Movie
A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".
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Yvone Kane
Title: Yvone Kane
Released: February 26, 2015
Type: Movie
After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.
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The Secret Agent
Title: The Secret Agent
Character: Ass't Commissioner
Released: February 19, 2015
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution.
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Capitão Falcão: Terror no Museu
Title: Capitão Falcão: Terror no Museu
Character: Capitão Falcão
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The most famous duo of Portuguese superheroes are called once again to the office of Fascist PM António de Oliveira Salazar. Turns out communists are trying to invade the Natural History Museum. What do they want this time around?
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Coro dos Amantes
Title: Coro dos Amantes
Character: Ele
Released: April 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues.
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Until Tomorrow, Comrades
Title: Until Tomorrow, Comrades
Character: Vaz
Released: November 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.
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Immaculate
Title: Immaculate
Released: April 22, 2013
Type: Movie
A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope.
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Title: Odisseia
Character: Gonçalo
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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Lines of Wellington
Title: Lines of Wellington
Character: Zanaga / Espião
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
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Assim Assim
Title: Assim Assim
Character: Médico
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.
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Title: Último a Sair
Character: Gonçalo Waddington
Released: May 8, 2011
Type: TV
An original and unique parody to reality shows. In Portugal, different celebrities, from different artistic areas, "live" together in a house where everything looks real, but it's not. Pure comedy and social satire.
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Hell
Title: Hell
Character: The Father
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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Bloody Night
Title: Bloody Night
Character: Abel Olímpio
Released: October 23, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…
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Title: Noite Sangrenta
Character: Abel Olímpio
Released: October 23, 2010
Type: TV
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Title: How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Character: Carteiro
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
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April Showers
Title: April Showers
Character: Pedro
Released: January 26, 2009
Type: Movie
April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.
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Entre os Dedos
Title: Entre os Dedos
Character: Nuno
Released: October 22, 2008
Type: Movie
After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.
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Aljubarrota
Title: Aljubarrota
Character: Nuno Álvares Pereira
Released: October 11, 2008
Type: Movie
A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation.
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Title: Os Contemporâneos
Character: Várias Personagens
Released: May 4, 2008
Type: TV
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Misbegotten
Title: Misbegotten
Character: Augusto
Released: September 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.
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Handing Over
Title: Handing Over
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A man has to sell the home he has spent such happy times in. His daughters have grown up and left. Reluctantly, he shows the house for some buyers: a young couple with a kid. When they arrive, in love and so happy, the house owner sees a reflection of himself years before. This unexpected glimpse of his past makes handing over somehow easier to bear…
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Blood Curse
Title: Blood Curse
Character: António
Released: February 24, 2006
Type: Movie
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
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Alice
Title: Alice
Character: airport security
Released: September 28, 2005
Type: Movie
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
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Title: Até Amanhã, Camaradas
Character: Vaz
Released: January 28, 2005
Type: TV
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Anjo Caído
Title: Anjo Caído
Character: Polícia
Released: September 29, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: A Senhora das Águas
Character: Lucas (jovem)
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Filha do Mar
Character: Vítor
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Ajuste de Contas
Character: Filipe
Released: November 13, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Conde de Abranhos
Character: Dr. Tavares
Released: October 3, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: A Raia dos Medos
Character: Guarda Silvério
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Antero
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Terra Mãe
Character: Gonçalo de Castro
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Não Há Duas Sem Três
Character: Alberto
Released: October 7, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Filhos do Vento
Character: Jorge (jovem)
Released: April 6, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Polícias
Character: João Luís
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: TV
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Grand Tour
Title: Grand Tour
Character: Edward
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly…Determined to get married and amused by Edward's move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.