Pedro Almendra

Pedro Almendra

Born: August 25, 1976
in Braga, Portugal

Movies for Pedro Almendra...

We Are on Air
Title: We Are on Air
Released: January 25, 2024
Type: Movie
Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly employee on a TV show. But at night, he dons his neighbour’s uniform to win the favour and satisfy the desires of a boy he’s met online. In her retirement home, Júlia is unable to sleep at night and has long forgotten what drugs she is meant to be taking. She misses her dead husband, who manifests himself in the body of a living friend, and gets involved in her daily activities. Through these characters, Diogo Costa Amarante constructs a fascinating portrait of lives lived while desires remain unrealised.
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Title: Sweet Strawberries
Released: October 23, 2023
Type: TV
When the school year starts at Barra Secondary school, a big artistic contest is launched to find the new talents of tomorrow. All students are excited, but a string of mysterious disappearances preceded by cyberbullying will disturb this cheerful excitement and divide the students. Everyone has something to hide, so everyone could be the next one to disappear...
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A Sibila
Title: A Sibila
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: Movie
In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
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Title: Thieves Like Us
Released: February 22, 2023
Type: TV
During an eclipse in 1984, an iconic gang of armed robbers is dismantled after robbery of the Banco de Portugal. Part of the group is arrested, the other is murdered. Two members are left together. This event is the result of an anonymous call. Who denounced them? “Racing Horses” tells this gang's story, emphasizing the individual motivations that led each member to choose this way of life. As a backdrop, the bathing area of a Portugal about to enter the European Economic Community.
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Title: Para Sempre
Character: César Proença
Released: November 8, 2021
Type: TV
Pedro is an enigmatic man with only one goal: to get Clara back, his first and only love. However, this meeting is almost impossible. Above all, because she is engaged to his brother Lourenço, the man who Pedro will save. And what will Lourenço do when he realizes that his savior may, after all, steal everything from him?
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Title: Doce
Character: Xico Costa
Released: October 2, 2021
Type: TV
Series about one of the most iconic Portuguese bands, DOCE. Doce were one of the first "girls band" in Europe, opening the way not only in the musical world, but also breaking barriers and prejudices in traditional Portuguese society. The series is based on real events, following the band's entire journey from its appearance in 1979, until the end of the initial formation. Doce has outlasted all critics and left its mark on a generation and a country.
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Bem Bom
Title: Bem Bom
Character: Xico Costa
Released: July 8, 2021
Type: Movie
It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.
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Title: Vento Norte
Character: Padre Mário
Released: April 14, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Amar Depois de Amar
Character: Ângelo Severino
Released: June 17, 2019
Type: TV
It tells the story of four great passions and the crime they unleash between the Macedo family and the Oliveira family.
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Snu
Title: Snu
Character: Francisco Sá Carneiro
Released: March 6, 2019
Type: Movie
The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.
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Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
Title: Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
Released: January 28, 2019
Type: Movie
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.
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Title: Verão M
Character: António Teixeira
Released: July 28, 2018
Type: TV
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The Amazed Spectator
Title: The Amazed Spectator
Character: Espectador
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
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Over El Cielo
Title: Over El Cielo
Character: Man with blue car
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.
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3x3D
Title: 3x3D
Released: May 22, 2013
Type: Movie
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
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Title: A Família Mata
Character: Realizador
Released: March 7, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Laços de Sangue
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: TV
Laços de Sangue is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.
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Title: Cidade Despida
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: TV
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The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Title: The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: José
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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Title: Liberdade 21
Character: Artur
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: TV
In each episode, an apparently lost cause goes to court. However, the various stages of the case show us that not everything is as it seems and that no case is solved until the sentence is read.
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Waking Up
Title: Waking Up
Character: Pedro
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
An artistically shot film that slowly blurs the boundaries between dreams and reality as it builds into an unnerving then touching climax.