Margarida Vila-Nova

Margarida Vila-Nova

Born: June 6, 1983
in Lisbon, Portugal
Margarida Vila-Nova was born on June 6, 1983 in Lisbon, Portugal. She is an actress and director, known for Letters from War (2016), Causa Própria (2022) and The Good Girls Club (2020).

Movies for Margarida Vila-Nova...

Title: Leading Role - The Revenge
Character: Lúcia
Released: March 4, 2024
Type: TV
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Title: Matilha
Character: Mafalda
Released: January 15, 2024
Type: TV
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Title: Leading Role
Character: Lúcia
Released: September 25, 2023
Type: TV
At the center of this story is Aurora Guerra, a popular actress who became a star in the teen series "The Chosen Ones" at an early age. Irene and Julio, Aurora's parents, signed her up for a casting several years ago and the matriarch, realizing that the decision was between her and another girl, managed to play the casting director in Aurora's favor. Lúcia has the same dream: to be a successful actress and decides to apply for the casting as well, but she soon realizes Irene's scheme and decides to confront her. After a violent argument between the two, Lúcia ends up having an accident that almost took her life and killed her chance of becoming an actress, due to the physical disabilities she was left with. Twenty years later, Lucia is determined to take revenge. The young woman wants to get back what she believes Aurora has taken from her, far from imagining that she is just a victim of Irene's evil deeds.
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Will-o’-the-Wisp
Title: Will-o’-the-Wisp
Character: Teresa
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: Movie
On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of the two young men devoted to love and desire, and the will to change the status quo.
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Pê
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Character: Filha
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
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Revolta
Title: Revolta
Character: Raquel
Released: June 2, 2022
Type: Movie
As a result of the pandemic and the economic crisis, there is a widespread revolt in the main cities of the country and Paulo and Cristina, an upper-middle-class couple with a newborn child, only do not join the popular indignation because they agreed, that same night, to organize a dinner for two friends: João, going through a divorce process that plunges him into a strange depression; and Raquel, Cristina's childhood friend who has spent the last few years crossing the planet on a journey of self-discovery. It's a night where, while the world changes outside, people reveal themselves inside, in this apartment where the confrontation between the real and the virtual reveals the most terrible truths.
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Young Mr. Cunhal
Title: Young Mr. Cunhal
Released: May 1, 2022
Type: Movie
The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho’s camera, in a detective-minded film, in which the early years of the life of the historic leader of the Portuguese Communist Party are explored. In between, excerpts from his own books are staged for the spectator.
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Title: Natural Law
Character: Ana Martins
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: The Good Girls Club
Character: Vera Leão
Released: December 18, 2020
Type: TV
The Good Girls Club is a drama series that follows the capital's night, where sensuality and sex mix with politics, security, business and glamour, and which will accompany the story of 3 characters: the security guard, the owner and the new girl.
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Title: Red Light
Character: Ângela Macedo
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: TV
Red Light is a TV series created by Patrícia Muller & directed by Marco Leão & André Santos about the true story of a group of women from Bragança that in 2003 rebelled against the presence of Brazilian immigrant prostitutes that were having a social and moral impact on the life of this small town.
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Title: South
Character: Mafalda
Released: September 28, 2019
Type: TV
The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal.
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Empire Hotel
Title: Empire Hotel
Character: Maria
Released: October 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The Empire Hotel is a 30-year-old landmark in Macau's old quarter, inhabited by characters with their own stories and struggles. It is also Maria's home. One day, the burden of keeping lives together and the hotel standing falls on her shoulders. A young man who left Macau two decades ago returns, intent on revenge and reclaiming his mother's fortune – half the hotel. Inside the casino, Maria sings Fado and exotic dancers perform. It is against this illusory backdrop that the man lays eyes on Maria for the first time; they’re both mesmerized. The film cuts back and forth between film noir-style scenes of Macau’s past and present.
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Equinox
Title: Equinox
Released: July 19, 2018
Type: Movie
I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure.
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Between the Shadows
Title: Between the Shadows
Character: Narrator
Released: June 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Natália, trapped in a tedious routine, leaves in search of a stolen heart. In a surreal world where hearts are the common currency, she endures several perils, in order to decide if she wants to give her heart up or keep it for herself.
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Title: Paixão
Character: Maria Luísa Marreiros
Released: September 18, 2017
Type: TV
With Algarve and South Africa as main stages, Paixão tells the story of a love that was destroyed by a lie. This is the story of a man determined to fight for justice and to recover ten years of his life and an unshakable love that resists time and all threats.
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Love Love
Title: Love Love
Character: Lígia
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno's sister and Marta's best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge's friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will imprison him and, convinced that his love and his lover's desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.
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Letters from War
Title: Letters from War
Character: Maria José
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.
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Nos Campos em Volta
Title: Nos Campos em Volta
Released: April 24, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Mar Salgado
Character: Leonor Trigo
Released: September 15, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Sol de Inverno
Character: Filipa
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
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Na Escama do Dragão
Title: Na Escama do Dragão
Released: December 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A reporter and a camera operator from a Macau TV channel embark on a journey to south of China.
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Title: Sedução
Character: Vitória Mendes Soares
Released: October 25, 2010
Type: TV
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Marquise of Alfarela
Released: October 20, 2010
Type: Movie
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Disquiet
Title: Disquiet
Character: Mãe
Released: September 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.
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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: Sentimentos
Character: Filipa Coutinho
Released: June 22, 2009
Type: TV
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True and Tender is the North
Title: True and Tender is the North
Character: Leopoldina - 26 anos
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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Title: A Outra
Character: Maria Gama
Released: March 24, 2008
Type: TV
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: Sofia
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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Title: Tempo de Viver
Released: June 18, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Mundo Meu
Released: June 26, 2005
Type: TV
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The Fatalist
Title: The Fatalist
Character: the daughter
Released: June 26, 2005
Type: Movie
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portuguese countryside to an unspecified destination, the traveling pair embark on a series of highly philosophical discussions. Flowing with tales of his life in the military and previous sexual escapades, Tiago trades a series of tales with his rapt passenger, including the story of a vengeful spurned lover who plots revenge on the nobleman who rejected her by transforming a prostitute into a society lady and convincing him to marry the tainted bride.
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The Miracle According to Salomé
Title: The Miracle According to Salomé
Character: Natacha
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
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A Falha
Title: A Falha
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.
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Title: Ana e os Sete
Released: March 13, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Segredo de Justiça
Character: Enfermeira
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Filha do Mar
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Anjo Selvagem
Character: Bárbara Correia Marques
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: TV
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Amo-te Teresa
Title: Amo-te Teresa
Character: Sandra
Released: January 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. Immediately, a strong attraction forms between Teresa and Miguel, a friend of her oldest son.
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Dédé
Title: Dédé
Released: May 2, 1990
Type: Movie
In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is present, except that, this time, Dede refuses to kill anyone, no matter how persistent his father's frustrated ghost is.
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The Jester
Title: The Jester
Character: Girl of Movie Crew
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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Ouro e Cinza
Title: Ouro e Cinza
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie