João Cabral

João Cabral

Movies for João Cabral...

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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Title: Shadow - A Mother Knows
Released: June 29, 2022
Type: TV
Years after the disappearance of a child, a mother continues to try to find her son after an abduction that authorities cannot solve. As she moves in a world that wants to force her to forget the past and grieve for a child she believes is still alive. Based on a true story
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Title: We Won't Dine
Character: Pai
Released: March 28, 2022
Type: TV
Within a peculiar family drama, Inês finds peace in pain. While getting evicted by her landlord and dealing with her grandfather’s loneliness and dementia, she finds comfort in the imaginary figure of her deceased father.
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Shadow
Title: Shadow
Character: Marques
Released: October 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive.
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Um Jantar Muito Original
Title: Um Jantar Muito Original
Released: March 5, 2021
Type: Movie
1907. The Porto Chamber has just been won by the Republicans, in full monarchy, three years away from the revolution. Republican ideas are taking hold and monarchical institutions are beginning to be shaken. However, the Sociedade Gastronómica de Lisboa resists and apparently is one of the strongest bastions of the monarchy. But winds of change blow within the walls of the traditional and conservative Society. A young member, Dr. Duarte Rodrigues, decides to run for president, held by the mysterious Prositt, who made his fortune in Africa. Duarte, stating that he does not want to betray the illustrious president, but as he is somewhat worn out and hopelessly dazzled by the leadership, he is able to artfully convince others to convince him, Duarte, to move forward, serving them for this. , in a dinner of taking power, a dish of unexpected excellence and very original.
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Title: Bem Me Quer
Character: Inspetor Antunes
Released: October 26, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Amar Demais
Character: Zé Manel
Released: September 14, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Prisioneira
Character: Américo
Released: May 21, 2019
Type: TV
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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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Der Lissabon-Krimi: Der Tote in der Brandung
Title: Der Lissabon-Krimi: Der Tote in der Brandung
Character: Security Officer
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Two years after consorting with the wrong people cost him his job as public prosecutor, Eduardo Silva is a measly defense attorney, who works from his hotel room. Loosing a bit from her fellow-angler uncle, he gives a shot as unpaid apprentice to freshly-graduated gypsy Marcia Amaya, whom nobody would consider hiring so far, but is soon offered crossing to the office of Silva's successor as prosecutor. Their first client is common-as-muck Joana Soares, accused of murdering her beached-up husband after a public fight, without an alibi, claiming a blackout. Eduardo is countered while working out, with help from Marcia's and Joana's families, how the affair actually relates to illegal trade in medicine, with twists including the involvement of a crime lord.
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Black Heart
Title: Black Heart
Character: Homem
Released: May 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A couple looks to mend their relationship and build a new home in the Azores.
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Title: Espelho d’Água
Character: Álvaro
Released: May 1, 2017
Type: TV
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A Ilha dos Cães
Title: A Ilha dos Cães
Character: Chefe Bordalo
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Title: Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Character: Herr Mertinez
Released: June 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
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Title: Donos Disto Tudo
Released: October 17, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Santa Bárbara
Character: Álvaro
Released: September 28, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Poderosas
Character: Inspector
Released: May 18, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Água de Mar
Character: Artur Mendonça
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: Giras & Falidas
Character: Hóspede
Released: April 7, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: A Mãe do Senhor Ministro
Character: Manel
Released: April 28, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Mundo ao Contrário
Character: Amílcar Saraiva
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Destinos Cruzados
Character: Psiquiatra
Released: January 27, 2013
Type: TV
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Operation Autumn
Title: Operation Autumn
Character: Ramos de Almeida
Released: November 22, 2012
Type: Movie
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
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O Cônsul de Bordéus
Title: O Cônsul de Bordéus
Character: Faria Machado
Released: May 3, 2012
Type: Movie
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
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Title: A Família Mata
Character: Conservador
Released: March 7, 2011
Type: TV
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Assault on the Santa Maria
Title: Assault on the Santa Maria
Character: Joaquim Paiva
Released: September 23, 2010
Type: Movie
On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship.
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Title: Mar de Paixão
Character: Inspector
Released: March 15, 2010
Type: TV
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O Último Condenado à Morte
Title: O Último Condenado à Morte
Character: Padre Silva
Released: May 28, 2009
Type: Movie
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
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Title: Deixa Que Te Leve
Character: Inácio Rodrigues
Released: May 11, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Feitiço de Amor
Character: Gabriel Silva
Released: June 22, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: O Dia do Regicídio
Character: Dr. Gonçalves Lopes
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Fascínios
Character: Inspector Monteiro
Released: November 26, 2007
Type: TV
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: an editor
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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A Cura
Title: A Cura
Released: March 14, 2007
Type: Movie
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Fatal
Title: Fatal
Character: Luís
Released: March 13, 2006
Type: Movie
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Lavado em Lágrimas
Title: Lavado em Lágrimas
Character: João
Released: January 26, 2006
Type: Movie
João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, João meets Ana, his teenage granddaughter, a mysterious character who is beginning to exercise an irresistible fascination for him. With the time João starts to lose the interest in the pigeon breeder and begins to take an interest in Ana and her world, which she only shares with another abandoned kid, until she realizes that her life is full of dark stories.
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A Batalha dos Três Reis
Title: A Batalha dos Três Reis
Released: September 2, 2005
Type: Movie
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Fin de curso
Title: Fin de curso
Released: July 15, 2005
Type: Movie
There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
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O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Title: O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador
Character: Luís Beldroega
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village are changed by the death of Adriano. "In order to create, I destroyed myself; I have so much externalized within myself that within me I exist only outwardly. I am the living scene where various actors perform various plays." (from Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa), as Adriano liked to quote Adriano. He committed suicide on the day of the village feast, hanging himself in the main square. For Adriano, the main square of the village has long been the center of the world. Adriano felt surrounded, depressed, unable to escape his destiny. "No one can stop a man who travels with suicide on his lapel" Adriano repeated to Lisete, always to the point of exhaustion.
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Só Por Acaso
Title: Só Por Acaso
Character: Taxi Passenger
Released: March 18, 2003
Type: Movie
A bad luck that should never have happened, sends Rodrigo into a coma that lasts five years. And when he wakes up, after so long haunted by the image of the woman who shot him at close range, he realizes that life has not stopped waiting for him, without realizing that everyone is lying to him. And that your best friend is getting ready to get you into trouble again.
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Forget Everything I've Told You
Title: Forget Everything I've Told You
Character: Pai de Bárbara
Released: December 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician. Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy. Joana, the daughter, almost a singer, and Nuts, her boyfriend, almost a filmmaker. Finally the grand father Tobias, a shepherd, almost immortal.
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Title: O Espírito da Lei
Character: Raul Brandão
Released: September 23, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Segredo de Justiça
Character: António
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: TV
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Cavaleiros De Água Doce
Title: Cavaleiros De Água Doce
Character: Sérgio
Released: January 28, 2001
Type: Movie
After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.
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Title: Super Pai
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: TV
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April Captains
Title: April Captains
Character: RCP Journalist
Released: April 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
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Title: A Senhora Ministra
Character: Carrilhão
Released: January 24, 2000
Type: TV
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Cães Sem Coleira
Title: Cães Sem Coleira
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
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The Mutants
Title: The Mutants
Character: Vigilante
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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Title: Diário de Maria
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Não Há Duas Sem Três
Character: Polícia
Released: October 7, 1997
Type: TV
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Ao Sul
Title: Ao Sul
Character: Liberto António
Released: April 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country which still defended a doomed African empire and from his traditional, landowning family. He’s back now. Everything is different. «Europe» knocked on the door and sprawled itself fast. Even the South had to face wrenching changes. And Henrique himself will have to face many events. Love affairs and dangerous threats. And the chalenge of his future.
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Title: A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
Character: Manel
Released: December 6, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Na Paz dos Anjos
Character: Pedro
Released: April 16, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: A Banqueira do Povo
Character: Rodrigo Simões
Released: April 12, 1993
Type: TV
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O Miradouro da Lua
Title: O Miradouro da Lua
Character: João Araújo
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns to his country. When he goes to his father's address, he has a big surprise and his life will change ...
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Le voyage étranger
Title: Le voyage étranger
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
11th century. Descended from the aristocracy, Alexis flees a world dominated by money and strength. The young man, in love with justice and freedom, sets off on the roads to discover the world, abandoning his wife and family.
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Title: The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Released: October 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
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Lovely Child
Title: Lovely Child
Character: Adriano
Released: May 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
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Matar Saudades
Title: Matar Saudades
Character: Pedro
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...