António Fonseca

António Fonseca

Born: October 14, 1953
in Santo Tirso, Portugal

Movies for António Fonseca...

Title: Lusitânia
Character: Tomás Menezes
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: Oedipus
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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Title: Leading Role
Character: Júlio Guerra
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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Jogos de Enganos
Title: Jogos de Enganos
Character: Dr. Álvaro
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: Movie
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Primeira Obra
Title: Primeira Obra
Released: April 30, 2023
Type: Movie
Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.
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Title: Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated: The Series
Character: Marcelo Caetano
Released: April 24, 2023
Type: TV
On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. The man who stared at him that afternoon and demanded surrender, guaranteeing his safety, had just led Santarém’s Artillery 1 regiment in taking the capital. Without firing a single shot, he managed to overthrow a regime that was over 48 years old. That was the last step to take and he took it, without hesitation, becoming the unavoidable figure of the day that marked the beginning of democracy in Portugal.
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Wolf Child
Title: Wolf Child
Character: Tomás Menezes
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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Pê
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Character: Médico
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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Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated
Title: Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated
Character: Marcello Caetano
Released: April 14, 2022
Type: Movie
On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. The man who stared at him that afternoon and demanded surrender, guaranteeing his safety, had just led Santarém’s Artillery 1 regiment in taking the capital. Without firing a single shot, he managed to overthrow a regime that was over 48 years old. That was the last step to take and he took it, without hesitation, becoming the unavoidable figure of the day that marked the beginning of democracy in Portugal
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Title: Natural Law
Character: Judge Luciano
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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The Lone Wolf
Title: The Lone Wolf
Character: Raul Oliveira
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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Submission
Title: Submission
Released: September 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to forceher husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, intoCourt. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.
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Title: Terra Brava
Character: Raúl Santinho
Released: October 28, 2019
Type: TV
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.
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Title: South
Character: Médico Legista
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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A Matança Ritual de Gorge Mastromas
Title: A Matança Ritual de Gorge Mastromas
Released: September 19, 2019
Type: Movie
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Invisible Life
Title: Invisible Life
Character: Manoel
Released: August 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
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Snu
Title: Snu
Character: António Ferreira Gomes
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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Maria
Title: Maria
Character: José
Released: November 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with José, a married man who became her most faithful client but who couldn't help her to escape the hard life. Today this old prostitute continues showing off her body through the long city's nights, though the clients are almost gone. José is still there, but he failed at what she desired the most: a son. In a very intimate and raw portray of a woman, MARIA disclosures how love and getting older can feels like.
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Blood Lines
Title: Blood Lines
Character: Mordomo
Released: July 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
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Title: Espelho d’Água
Character: Danilo
Released: May 1, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Os Boys
Character: Ministro
Released: September 7, 2016
Type: TV
Political comedy series about the political advisers of the ministerial cabinets and the opposition and their connivance with economic and political interests that determine how decisions are made.
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John From
Title: John From
Character: Vizinho
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
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Histórias de Alice
Title: Histórias de Alice
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Mar Salgado
Character: João Pimenta
Released: September 15, 2014
Type: TV
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Nzinga, Queen of Angola
Title: Nzinga, Queen of Angola
Character: Bento Banha Cardoso
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win.
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8816 Versos
Title: 8816 Versos
Character: Himself
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Sol de Inverno
Character: Médico
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Odisseia
Character: Balhelhas
Released: January 20, 2013
Type: TV
A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.
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Title: Depois do Adeus
Character: Casimiro Marques
Released: January 19, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Sinais de Vida
Character: Fernando Coelho
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
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The Great Kilapy
Title: The Great Kilapy
Character: Homem do Restaurante de Luxo
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
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Florbela
Title: Florbela
Character: João Espanca
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
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Anita Garibaldi
Title: Anita Garibaldi
Released: January 16, 2012
Type: Movie
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The City and The Sun
Title: The City and The Sun
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it becomes fierce, and like death, she cannot look it in the eye - only to the shadows around her
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My Name Is Bernadette
Title: My Name Is Bernadette
Character: Committee Member
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
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Title: Maternidade
Character: Filipe
Released: January 30, 2011
Type: TV
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Crónica Parisiense
Title: Crónica Parisiense
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...
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O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
Title: O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
Character: Lobão
Released: October 9, 2010
Type: Movie
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Gigola
Title: Gigola
Character: Jose
Released: June 6, 2010
Type: Movie
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
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Title: Cidade Despida
Character: Alberto
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: TV
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Cinerama
Title: Cinerama
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
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Title: Perfect Heart
Character: Artur
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: 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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Star Crossed
Title: Star Crossed
Character: José Carlos Silva, Invicta President
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.
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O Último Condenado à Morte
Title: O Último Condenado à Morte
Character: Pai de Francisco
Released: May 28, 2009
Type: Movie
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
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The Dead Queen
Title: The Dead Queen
Character: Bispo da Guarda
Released: May 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father.
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Title: Podia Acabar o Mundo
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: A Outra
Released: March 24, 2008
Type: TV
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O Capacete Dourado
Title: O Capacete Dourado
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: Movie
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
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Title: Quando os Lobos Uivam
Character: Police Inspector
Released: March 31, 2006
Type: TV
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Querença
Title: Querença
Character: Brito
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to discovering and interviewing the poet Júlio Vera. In 1988, he wrote a series of poems in which he mysteriously anticipated the fall of the USSR. Guida has only 12 days to complete the mission.
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A Imitação
Title: A Imitação
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?
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The Uncertainty Principle
Title: The Uncertainty Principle
Character: Policeman
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
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Light Drops
Title: Light Drops
Character: César
Released: February 15, 2002
Type: Movie
Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
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Cães Raivosos
Title: Cães Raivosos
Released: March 9, 2000
Type: Movie
A director is trying to stage the play “The Jew of Linz”, but his dementia and delirium can’t take the production past rehearsals. The venue cancels the play and the director and his leading man go on an odyssey where they can’t distinguish life from fiction.
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The Mutants
Title: The Mutants
Character: Man at Service Station
Released: November 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Title: Blind Man's Bluff
Character: Man
Released: November 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
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Title: Por Mares Nunca Dantes Navegados
Released: September 19, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Passerelle
Character: Cândido
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.
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Title: Cobardias
Character: Jovem
Released: January 23, 1988
Type: TV
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Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
Title: Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...