Joaquim de Almeida
Birthday: 1957-03-15
Place of Birth: São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal
Biography: Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born March 15, 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five. His other well known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Only You (1994), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008). He has worked in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions, winning several international awards.
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Stranded
A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Eart...
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The Heart of the Earth
Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers...
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bo...
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The Life
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession th...
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La conjura de El Escorial
16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal...
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Behind Enemy Lines
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photograp...
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Desperado
El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to th...
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Che: Part Two
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerg...
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La Cucina
A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as ...
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Only You
Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is...
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Fast X
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerv...
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Clear and Present Danger
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia...
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Call Girl
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the ...
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Sweat
Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the deser...
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No Vacancy
In a surreal motel in Los Angeles, the life of several sordid characters intertwine....
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Break of Dawn
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a...
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The Xango from Baker Street
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sh...
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A Shot in the Dark
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a s...
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The Fencing Master
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Altho...
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Pereira Declares
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism...
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Good Morning, Babylon
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to Ame...
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The Celestine Prophecy
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. ...
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Tale About the Cat and the Moon
A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon a...
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Dollar for the Dead
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-maki...
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The Honorary Consul
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and h...
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The Immortals
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with ...
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Fast Five
Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Br...
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April Captains
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fa...
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Mamitas
A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considere...
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Women
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life....
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The Soldier
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A sp...
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Backlight
Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an ...
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Christopher Roth
A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own....
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Holy Money
Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies i...
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La Cucaracha
A desperate writer fights for survival when the Mexican mob involves him in murder....
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The Dumbfounded King
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The ...
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Sandino
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was ...
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Adam and Eve
Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanis...
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The Palace
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of variou...
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His Master's Voice
Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationali...
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Water and Salt
Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a f...
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Inferno
Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colon...
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God Save the Queens
A dramedy about four Drag Queens who find themselves at the very same therapy retreat. In an effort ...
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Three-60
Guillermo (Raúl Mérida) is a passionate young college surf casually discovering an old photographic ...
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Robosapien: Rebooted
A robotic boy and a human boy join forces to save their parents from the organization that funded th...
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The Gilded Cage
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground...
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Shadows in a Conflict
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portugu...
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Oscar. The color of destiny
"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spa...
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Fátima
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita...
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Uma Vida Normal
Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start l...
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Tentação
Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet v...
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On the Run
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend ...
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The Burning Plain
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes...
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The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail
Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many...
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O Último Animal
Didi dreams of improving his life and is trying to leave the community (the slum) where he grew up, ...
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Atlas Shrugged: Part III
In a post-apocalyptic America, the iron fist of the totalitarian government seeks to crush one myste...
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Corazón loco
Félix (Juanjo Puigcorbé), a likeable and careerist flat salesman, wants to be the commercial directo...
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Of Mind and Music
Dr. Alvaro Cruz, a neuroscientist, disillusioned by the death of his mother and his inability to hel...
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Road House
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that th...
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Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circ...
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El baile de las ánimas
In the late 1940s, a girl runs away from the boarding school where her father has placed her to go a...
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Alex
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared i...
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Epitaph
An ex-Army marksman's plan to avenge the murder of his parents brings him into business with a murde...
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3 Holes and a Smoking Gun
An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of ...
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A Date with Miss Fortune
When a struggling writer meets a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and l...
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One Man's Hero
One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a g...
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Our Brand Is Crisis
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American politica...
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Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors....
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Diablo
A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife....
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Smoke Signals
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddl...
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A Passing Season
As he does at the end of every summer, Antonio climbs onto his roof to sweep out his chimney. From t...
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Terre sacrée
A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has bee...
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Downsizing
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that...
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The Sun and the Moon
Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where sh...
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Les Deux Fragonard
The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style whi...
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The Hitman's Bodyguard
The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of...
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irr...
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Cold Land
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries t...
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Milan noir
The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life....
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Vendetta
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrant...
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Breaking & Exiting
Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he s...
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Moscow Zero
In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei tha...
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On the Edge of the Horizon
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years...
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Repórter X
A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist ...
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An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos....
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Fatima
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witn...
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The Lovebirds
THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an interna...
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El día que nací yo
A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in C...
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Amok
Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they wi...
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The Legion
Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swar...
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Aqui D'El Rei!
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry ...
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Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida
A five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado....
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Retrato de Família
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is ...
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Love and Debate
A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfri...
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Missing
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for a...
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Priceless Beauty
A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She t...
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Looking for Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990...
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Land of Dreams
Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works fo...
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Mercato
Mercato takes us behind the scenes of today's soccer, a global industry with interests running into ...
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Cartoon Noir
Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker theme...
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Breaking & Exiting
While attempting a burglary, charming house thief Harry stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her ...
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We're All Still Here
Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates...
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