Maria de Medeiros
Birthday: 1965-08-19
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Biography: Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida (born August 19, 1965), better known as Maria de Medeiros, is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.
Movies
My Life Without Me
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before sh...
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I, Cesar
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants ...
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Pulp Fiction
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up bo...
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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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Shelter Me
Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, manag...
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The Story of Me
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state...
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The Saddest Music in the World
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the wor...
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Easter
Autobiographical documentary about an Easter vacation spent by the Ruivo’s family in the country tow...
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The Comedian
Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to...
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David's Birthday
Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it...
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Les Infortunes de la beauté
This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and ...
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Women Directors
Registe, talking on a blade is an Italian documentary about the Italian Cinema signed by women and a...
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Henry & June
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks ...
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Golden Balls
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances ...
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La Lectrice
A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character w...
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My Stars
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully d...
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The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and t...
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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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The Remains of Nothing
Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps l...
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Chicken with Plums
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day,...
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News from the Good Lord
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord...
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Second life
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his ...
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Holidays by the Sea
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation....
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The Detective and Death
In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot d...
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Midsummer Madness
St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get togethe...
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The Divine Comedy
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão...
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Journey to Portugal
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a d...
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Limited Edition
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he rec...
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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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A Trip to the Orphanage
While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between...
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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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I'm Not Dead
Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courie...
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Two Brothers, My Sister
This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as sh...
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Le Polygraphe
In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the...
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On The Ropes
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's prof...
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Meetings with a Young Poet
A young poet, Paul Susser (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais), meets his master, the great author Samuel Becket...
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Silvestre
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a d...
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Onyx: Kings of the Grail
Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia c...
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Giorni felici
Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is ...
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Airbag
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his ...
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Pasolini
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and frie...
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L'homme de ma vie
A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end s...
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Where the Sun Beats
Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in ...
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The Masters of Suspense
Hubert Wolfe, bestselling author, suffers from the writer's block for a long time. Thus, he often us...
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The Forbidden Room
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldie...
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No One Will Know
In a shabby bar outside Paris, in the early hours of the morning, a few customers are having a last ...
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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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A Estrangeira
The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but...
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Alcibíades
A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young ...
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Fallen Heroes
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who ...
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Man of the Crowds
Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret....
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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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Tempest in a Teapot
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, wi...
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Paraíso Perdido
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola man...
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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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The Son of Joseph
A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He ...
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Vertiges
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, n...
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Seances
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencin...
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Zigzags
Claire is a 16-year-old girl in search of herself. One evening she is bored and she joins her friend...
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100 Meters
Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an I...
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Call Me Elisabeth
A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her o...
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in ...
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Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission
Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disa...
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Honolulu Baby
Alberto Columbo is an engineer, sent on a useless mission in Melancias, an isolated village in Brazi...
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Babel
An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a stra...
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The Killer
In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grow...
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The Jester
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in...
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The Broken Key
In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports,...
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Porto of My Childhood
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown....
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Hitler in Hollywood
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth abo...
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Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set...
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Black Is Beltza
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque ...
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Elvire Jouvet 40
Between February and September 1940, Louis Jouvet worked with Claudia, ascending to the National Sup...
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Sea
Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected o...
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Land of Storms
Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begi...
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Sorceress
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for th...
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Moral Order
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the soc...
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Two Fridas
This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the r...
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Meeting Venus
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast prod...
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The Art of Amália
Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview ...
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The Lady of Lapa
HAAAAAA…MY LOVE…VRRRRUMM…HHOOOO…PUM PUM…HELP…RA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA…TCHAM…GRRRRR…TCHAC…HÃÃÃAAN…UAUUUUU!!!...
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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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Medea Miracle
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act ...
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Marlene de Sousa
Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished ...
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In the Country of Last Things
A young woman ventures into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder to search for...
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Poorly Extinguished Fires
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this grippin...
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Easy in Mind
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing seve...
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The Gang of the Jotas
The Gang of the Jotas is a wacky take on the famous suitcase mixup at the airport. Nils and Didier a...
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Coffeehouse Mysteries
Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the ...
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El sudor de los ruiseñores
A Romanian cellist emigrates to Spain where he becomes friends with a puppeteer who performs at El R...
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The Portuguese House
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aim...
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Show Me Lisbon
The best way to discover a city is through its people. 'Show Me Lisbon' reveals the city as seen by ...
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Ange
Ange, a rootless musician, feels a vital need to reconnect and make peace with his old friend Marco....
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José Saramago. O Tempo de uma Memória
A portrait of José Saramago built from the Nobel prize winner's reflections on memory, literary crea...
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