Francisco Brás

Francisco Brás

Born: November 25, 1955
in Alcoutim, Portugal

Movies for Francisco Brás...

Title: Nazaré
Character: Catarino
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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Colmeal
Title: Colmeal
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
From a certain idea of Rousseauian rural purity, “Colmeal” is settled in the small homonymous village located in Riba-Côa, also known as ghost village, due to the effects of the rural exodus and the inland desertification. In an allegorical way, quite worked on the natural elements and the sound elements, the film tells the story of a young man who lives isolated and who obsessed by a woman who comes from the city to spend her summer vacation. Gradually, the young man tries to overcome the inability to deal with his emotions, seeking to discover himself, emotionally and sexually. Márcio Laranjeira and Sérgio Brás d’Almeida are debutants in Curtas Vila do Conde and propose a return to the themes of growing pains and transition to adulthood, with young people trying to find their place in the world and to define their personality, especially in context of social and loving relationships.
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Title: Mata Hari
Released: March 20, 2017
Type: TV
A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century. To survive, Margaret becomes an exotic dancer after her husband leaves her. When the world stands on the edge of WWI, she becomes Mata Hari, a spy with unprecedented access to the European elite.
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Title: Ministério do Tempo
Character: Inquisidor
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: TV
A warrior from the XVI century, the first female university student from the XIX century and a nurse from the XXI century, join a secret agency to prevent people to change the Portuguese history by using time-traveling doors
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Armpits
Title: Armpits
Character: Desconhecido no Funeral
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry. But Lazarus has other hidden interests, the most important of which is an obsessive fixation on female armpits. When he sees the violinist Maria Pia playing, Lazarus immediately falls in love and starts to live for her, which will precipitate an absolutely unpredictable ending.
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Title: Belmonte
Character: Jornalista
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: TV
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My Engine's Fragile Sound
Title: My Engine's Fragile Sound
Character: Homem Velho
Released: October 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Gabi, a burn unit nurse, is in charge of the mother of an unborn child, burned and comatose from a serial killer assault. The cop handling the case, a friend of Gabi, asks for her help to identify the serial-killer if she wakes up.
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Title: Maison close
Character: Le Photographe
Released: October 4, 2010
Type: TV
Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.
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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: Espírito Indomável
Released: May 30, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Mar de Paixão
Character: Padre
Released: March 15, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Sentimentos
Released: June 22, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Rebelde Way
Character: Chico
Released: August 25, 2008
Type: TV
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The Other Side
Title: The Other Side
Character: Director de Palco
Released: October 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Ricardo is a transvestite. After a failed attempt of suicide, he has to come back to his roots and to relearn how to live with the inspiring help of his sister and, mostly, of his nephew Vasco, who has Down syndrome.
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Title: Conta-me Como Foi
Released: April 22, 2007
Type: TV
Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
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Kunta
Title: Kunta
Character: Chico
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
One night, the phone rings in a traditional Portuguese snack bar from the country side. The Spanish Civil Guard is looking for Kunta. He isn't there and till he arrives people speculate about those phone calls and about who is that man. His he a thief? A terrorist?
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Title: Aqui Não Há Quem Viva
Character: Miguel
Released: May 19, 2006
Type: TV
This Portuguese comedy show is about the daily lifes of neighbours living at Campo de Ourique, with really confusing life stories.
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Title: Até Amanhã, Camaradas
Character: Empregado Comboio
Released: January 28, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Strawberries with Sugar
Released: August 30, 2003
Type: TV
Morangos com Açúcar was a Portuguese Teen drama. It was broadcast daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI between 30 August 2003 to 15 September 2012. It has also been broadcast in Angola, Syria, Brazil and Romania.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Title: I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: Village Inhabitant (Scenes Deleted)
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he finds a second shot at true love, but this blooming romance is threatened by the situation plaguing the town.
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Title: O Espírito da Lei
Character: Padre
Released: September 23, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Anjo Selvagem
Character: Arnaldo
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: TV
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Camarate
Title: Camarate
Character: 5ª Testemunha
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: Marido de Ilda
Released: February 20, 2001
Type: TV
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Aniversário
Title: Aniversário
Released: October 19, 2000
Type: Movie
The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party and everyone party with the Teixeira's. Well, almost everyone. Ricardo, the youngest son, does not speak with his father for five years.
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Title: Keeping Up Appearances
Released: September 7, 2000
Type: TV
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances.
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Lourdes
Title: Lourdes
Released: May 29, 2000
Type: Movie
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
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Monsanto
Title: Monsanto
Character: Papagaio
Released: February 15, 2000
Type: Movie
Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in the company of his wife and her daughter, the young Sara, with which he has a not so good relationship. On the night of the celebrations, the death of a friend forever alters his live, waking up a whole past long dormant.
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Title: Um Sarilho Chamado Marina
Released: December 2, 1998
Type: TV
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Requiem
Title: Requiem
Released: June 3, 1998
Type: Movie
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
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Title: Médico de Família
Character: Inspector
Released: January 27, 1998
Type: TV
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Fátima
Title: Fátima
Character: António Abóbora
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
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Title: Une famille formidable
Character: Le Chamane
Released: September 19, 1992
Type: TV
Une famille formidable is a French romantic comedy television series broadcast since September 17, 1992. It details the goings on of a family, and follows them as they grow up. As of 2008, the cast is the same as the 1992 cast, an unusual feat for a program with a run of this length. In 2012, during the broadcast of the season 9 is celebrated twenty years of the series.
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Title: Terra Instável
Released: January 26, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Ricardina e Marta
Character: Emissário
Released: September 24, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Cobardias
Released: January 23, 1988
Type: TV
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Francisca
Title: Francisca
Released: December 3, 1981
Type: Movie
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.