Maria João Pinho

Maria João Pinho

Born: August 18, 1978
in Carregosa, Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal

Movies for Maria João Pinho...

Title: Senhora do Mar
Character: Leonor Pires
Released: February 5, 2024
Type: TV
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Title: Lusitânia
Character: Judite
Released: November 13, 2023
Type: TV
A collection of six distinct stories drawn from a rich and extensive body of folklore that narrates Iberian mythology. This epic series weaves a tapestry of myths and tales while tackling fantasy, horror, humor, and drama.
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Dialogues After the End
Title: Dialogues After the End
Character: Demeter
Released: October 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
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A Sibila
Title: A Sibila
Character: Joaquina Augusta "Quina" Teixeira
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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Índia
Title: Índia
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Wolf Child
Title: Wolf Child
Character: Judite
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
In a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend. The legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a young peasant girl, desperate for a child, asked a creature of the forest for a wish. The desire? A child she could call hers. But the forest creature curses the woman. When grow up, the child will bring teeth and blood to the village. Years pass, the child becomes a man, tormented and persecuted by the villagers, torn between his animalistic nature and a friendship with a young witch. The boy has to find out who, or what, he is. Together, the wolf child and the witch will try to break the curse and find their place in the world. 16 years after "Coisa Ruim", Frederico Serra returns to the legends and traditions of deep Portugal.
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Title: Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Released: April 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
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The Child
Title: The Child
Character: Maria
Released: February 10, 2022
Type: Movie
The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.
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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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My Castle My Home
Title: My Castle My Home
Character: Mother
Released: October 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Guilherme is a boy with 13 years old that plays tennis, he has to see and deal with his nightmares and his own fears.
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The Lone Wolf
Title: The Lone Wolf
Character: Sandra
Released: July 21, 2021
Type: Movie
One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
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Uma Vida Toda Empatada
Title: Uma Vida Toda Empatada
Character: Lurdes
Released: February 5, 2021
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Mário de Carvalho.
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Title: Red Light
Character: Pilar Abrantes Martins
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: Mulher de António
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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Snu
Title: Snu
Character: Isabel 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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Title: A Teia
Character: Vera
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: TV
A man and a woman with no apparent connection are involved in a bizarre bank robbery, resulting in their death. Their children (Lara and Simão), faced with the impasse in the police investigation, decide to unravel the mystery that led to the tragedy. What they discover is just the tip of the skein. Other deaths follow, all unrelated to view and entangled in a mysterious web that seems to have no end. What will be the next target?
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Ruth
Title: Ruth
Released: May 3, 2018
Type: Movie
This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
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Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me
Title: Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me
Character: Irmã
Released: August 11, 2016
Type: Movie
“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho
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Ainda Não Acabámos: Como Se Fosse Uma Carta
Title: Ainda Não Acabámos: Como Se Fosse Uma Carta
Released: February 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a loose story, memories, projects, meetings. Also because, since 1995, I have done several portraits of artists (Palolo, Bravo, Lapa, Skapinakis, Bartolomeu, Angelo, Sena, Ana Vieira and I prepare Sofia Areal and Fernando Lemos), I started to think that this is my life, these meetings , see, hear, cut, show, tease. I want, with this film continue to show what I see. [Jorge Silva Melo]
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Title: Terapia
Character: Ana Velez
Released: January 4, 2016
Type: TV
The show follows Mário Magalhães, a psychotherapist, through his weekly meetings with his patients, including his appointment with his own therapist.
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Mountain
Title: Mountain
Character: Mónica
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him only a few days to live. The imminence of death and the void that it will leave force David to become the man of the house, where he lives with his mother Mónica, who is in her 30s, and his three-year-old sister.
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Driving Lesson
Title: Driving Lesson
Character: Mulher
Released: April 30, 2015
Type: Movie
While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it's not too late to take action.
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Title: Mar Salgado
Character: Amélia Queiroz
Released: September 15, 2014
Type: TV
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Title: The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Character: Condessa de Gouvarinho
Released: September 11, 2014
Type: Movie
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
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Casanova Variations
Title: Casanova Variations
Character: Fan with Daughter
Released: August 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to visit, it breathes new life into the old man. A movie that captures the myth of the greatest seducer of all times, Casanova, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage opera performances that unravel the tale of his adventures, his passions, and ultimately his fear of death.
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The Invisible Life
Title: The Invisible Life
Character: Adriana
Released: November 13, 2013
Type: Movie
There is a long night when Hugo, a civil servant, is sitting on the stairs of the Ministry where he works. He can’t face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in António’s house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. Hugo remembers the day when Antonio, his superior at the Ministry, told him that he was going to die. Indirectly, Antonio seemed to want to tell him something about Hugo himself. Hugo’s desire to understand what had remained unsaid between the two of them, triggers other memories from the past. Hugo unexpectedly thinks back on the last time he saw the woman he loved, Adriana, and relives once more what he feels has been his unlived life.
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Title: Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Character: Isabel
Released: May 13, 2013
Type: TV
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Em Câmara Lenta
Title: Em Câmara Lenta
Character: Constança
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador.
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A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Title: A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Character: Cristiana
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.
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Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Countess of Viso
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
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. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
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Title: Maternidade
Character: Alice
Released: January 30, 2011
Type: TV
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Countess of Vizo
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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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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Sr. Artur
Title: Sr. Artur
Character: Secretária
Released: May 6, 2009
Type: Movie
The world of Arthur suddenly was taken by assault by two strangers. Incapable to recognize the two figures presented in front of him, Arthur is trapped in his own chair. A delicate situation, where the intensity increases gradually to it's boiling point.
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Title: Pai à Força
Character: Polícia
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: TV
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True and Tender is the North
Title: True and Tender is the North
Character: Olímpia
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: Rebelde Way
Character: Mariana
Released: August 25, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Resistirei
Character: Ana
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: TV