Nuno Casanovas

Nuno Casanovas

Born: September 21, 1988
in Lisbon, Portugal

Movies for Nuno Casanovas...

Title: Lusitânia
Character: Gustavo
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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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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Wolf Child
Title: Wolf Child
Character: Gustavo
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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Title: Para Sempre
Character: Bento (Jovem)
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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Variações: Guardian Angel
Title: Variações: Guardian Angel
Character: Pedro Lata
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
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Title: 3 Mulheres
Character: António
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: TV
A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.
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Title: #CasaDoCais
Character: Dealer de Rua
Released: January 15, 2018
Type: TV
A controversial and humorous series about five very peculiar friends. Ema comes to Lisbon and shares a house with four eccentric friends. Their day-to-day, and as nights, are marked by fun stories, without taboos, about being young in the new millennium (such as sex, drugs, job search, self-discovery and maturity).
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Title: #CasaDoCais
Character: Irmão Diogo
Released: January 15, 2018
Type: TV
A controversial and humorous series about five very peculiar friends. Ema comes to Lisbon and shares a house with four eccentric friends. Their day-to-day, and as nights, are marked by fun stories, without taboos, about being young in the new millennium (such as sex, drugs, job search, self-discovery and maturity).
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Love Love
Title: Love Love
Character: Carlos
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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Title: Mata Hari
Character: Lucas
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: Rainha das Flores
Character: Vasco
Released: May 9, 2016
Type: TV
After losing your memory, who can you trust? Frozen Memories tells the story of Rosa, who suffers from retrograde amnesia, and Narcisa, who tries to take advantage of her sister's accident to keep all the wealth she built in the last decade. It also tells the story of Daniel, Rosa's husband who becomes a total stranger to her overnight. Daniel ends up losing her to Marcelo, the doctor who saves Rosa's life after the accident. It comes as such a shock to Rosa that it triggers flashbacks and old memories that will make her realize she was fooled. From here on, she will have to fight to get her old life back. Reconquer her empire and try to win back the real love of her life, Daniel, who has moved forward in a new relationship.
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Title: The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
Character: Pedro da Maia
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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Title: Água de Mar
Character: Russo
Released: July 14, 2014
Type: TV
Urban series that takes place between the Beach of the Shells and the new School of Arts that is being born in the palace of the Barahona family. Against the background of the mythical line of Cascais, this series has a plot full of strong emotions. Each episode combines different lines of stories that cross each other: the freshness of the summer novels, the rebelliousness of youth, the adventures and peripécias lived on the beach, the fight for fame, the generational conflicts and the reunions that can happen... when least expected.
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Title: Os Filhos do Rock
Character: Renato
Released: December 8, 2013
Type: TV
A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.
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Title: Os Nossos Dias
Character: Pai de Alice
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Odysseus
Character: Jeune Ithaque
Released: June 13, 2013
Type: TV
The sovereign Greek island of Ithaca, 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have come home victorious. Only one man is missing: the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, who is lost at sea. The island’s economy is getting worse by the day as the region’s many princes have invaded the kingdom, devouring its resources, and pressuring Queen Penelope to choose a new husband. To delay her suitors, she promises to choose once she’s finished weaving King Laertes’ burial shroud. But she undoes her work every night. Odysseus’ son Telemachus doesn’t dare lay claim to his father’s throne. His only dream is to sail out to rescue Odysseus.
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What's New About Love?
Title: What's New About Love?
Character: Samuel
Released: February 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Six friends meet every evening in a basement to make music. During the daytime, however, there are no rehearsals for what life brings us. Each endeavour leaves its mark. Rita left Ricardo, Rafael found her, but she still feels lost. Eduardo thought he no longer liked Maria, but after what he has done he cannot turn the clock back. João lacks the courage to breakup with his girlfriend and takes refuge in the song he is writing for Inês. Marco struggles to get another young man’s love, but he is under no illusions. Samuel believes in everlasting love but something is wrong because his friends haven’t heard from him for sometime. Inês, attempting to feel safe, likes to experiment and she's waiting to see how things go with João. With all this going on, how could the band not be falling apart...?
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This Side of Resurrection
Title: This Side of Resurrection
Character: Monk
Released: November 1, 2011
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of a sister and a brother, Inês and Rafael. Since the divorce of their parents, their family never saw Rafael again. Inês runs away from home looking for him when she is told he is back at the Guincho Beach and surfing again. Rafael is an ex-surf champion who everyday gets himself inside the most dangerous waves to test the limits of his life. When the two brothers meet, Guincho makes them come together in a promise of paradise on earth, as it was the last place where their family lived together and in happiness. But Inês is surprised one day when she finds her brother looking fixedly to the Serra de Sintra mountain range, where the Convent of the Capuchos, which once was his refuge, is. She fears having brought him back the memories of the separation of their parents. Rafael is in a crisis of faith. When one day he disappears, Inês knows he went back to the convent, and she starts doing what she can to bring him back to her.
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E o Tempo Passa
Title: E o Tempo Passa
Character: Perdigão
Released: March 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life but also her career options. In the studio, the daily work is spiced by the frenzy group of younger actors. After all, they all ask the same question: where does happiness lies?
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Title: Voo Directo
Character: Jorge
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: TV
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L'arc-en-ciel
Title: L'arc-en-ciel
Released: October 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese partner, by successively meeting up with young strangers.
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Title: Perfect Heart
Released: October 17, 2009
Type: TV
Leonor and Pedro, are young, in love and from different social classes. She is the daughter of a wealthy man. He is from a modest working class family. They experience an intense but dramatically short love affair. When Pedro discovers Leonor’s father’s secret – that he sexually abused a maid – he is the victim of a hit and run accident, leaving him in a deep coma for 5 years. He later awakens to find out that his girlfriend, who was told he had died in the accident, moved on with her life and married someone else, after several years of grieving.
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Title: Tu e Eu
Character: João Pedro Maia
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Clube das Chaves
Character: André
Released: June 24, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Inspetor Max
Character: Diogo Martins
Released: March 14, 2004
Type: TV
"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.
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Title: O Teu Olhar
Character: António Pedro Teixeira
Released: August 4, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa
Released: September 8, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Bons Vizinhos
Character: Nando
Released: June 15, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Ana e os Sete
Character: Jorge
Released: March 13, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Um Estranho em Casa
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: O Espírito da Lei
Released: September 23, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Olhos de Água
Released: February 20, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: As Lições do Tonecas
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: TV