Norberto Barroca

Norberto Barroca

Born: November 5, 1937
Died: January 2, 2020
in Marinha Grande, Portugal

Movies for Norberto Barroca...

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
Title: If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
Released: September 10, 2013
Type: Movie
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.
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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Title: Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Character: Gaudêncio
Released: April 30, 2009
Type: Movie
Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job as a book keeper at his Uncle Francisco's shop in Lisbon he falls madly in love with a young blonde, who lives across the road. No sooner does he meet her than he straightaway wants to marry her. His uncle, totally opposed to the match, fires him and kicks him out of the house. Macário departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle’s approval to marry his beloved, he discovers the “singularity” of his fiancée’s character.
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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Title: Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Released: September 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".
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The Policewoman
Title: The Policewoman
Character: Police Chief
Released: May 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A young woman and her son runaway from their hometown to escape civil war. Nothing is left from the world they knew and the only thing they have is each other.
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Gloria
Title: Gloria
Character: Voice of Vicente
Released: November 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed. Its stationmaster, Vincente, is preparing to retire. Many young people have moved out, leaving the children to be brought up by the elderly, including thirteen-year-old Glória and her friend Ivan. Glória's life suddenly changes with the arrival of Vincente's younger brother, Mauro, who has just come out of prison and has some old issues to settle. Mauro begins to charge around the station on his motorbike, while Glória's friendship with Ivan is put to test on account of her attraction to older Mauro.
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Passagem por Lisboa
Title: Passagem por Lisboa
Character: Ambassador
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of Windsor, Primo de Rivera, Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, Walter Schellenberg and Juan Garcia are often together in the luxury hotels and night-clubs. Espionage and crime go hand in hand, despite of, or encouraged by, the Portuguese secret police.
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Poor George
Title: Poor George
Character: Jorge (voice)
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
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Agosto
Title: Agosto
Character: Dário (voice)
Released: May 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
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The Holy Alliance
Title: The Holy Alliance
Released: March 19, 1980
Type: Movie
In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
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O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Title: O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto.