Canto e Castro
Birthday: 1930-04-24
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Word and Utopia
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked ...
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Traffic
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach res...
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Five Days, Five Nights
Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some f...
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Jaime
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to g...
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Here on Earth
Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business...
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Manô
Manô, an obscure and anonymous character from popular comedies of the 1920s, escapes the destruction...
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Manhã Submersa
Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants...
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In the Shadow of the Vultures
Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hu...
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The Fascination
An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in t...
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Os Abismos da Meia-Noite
Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance ...
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Blood
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After t...
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Dina and Django
Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a f...
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Xavier
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find ...
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Duke
Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investiga...
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The Last Dive
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging i...
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Crime at the Little Star Pension
Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel ...
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O Visconde
O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibal...
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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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Day of Despair
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco....
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Low-Flying Aircraft
Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where huma...
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451 Forte
Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé ...
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Longe da Vista
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio imp...
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The Mountains of the Moon
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shi...
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Three Palm Trees
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs i...
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Meia Noite
A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstit...
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Far Away from Here
Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alent...
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The Jew
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18t...
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Lavado em Lágrimas
João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in...
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Step by Step
Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school wh...
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A Viagem
A couple in search of a different life, move from the city to the countryside and confront unexpecte...
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Até Amanhã, Mário
Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his li...
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Querença
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola...
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Life Is Beautiful
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social tur...
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Guardian Angel
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a me...
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Ao Sul
Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he de...
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Matar Saudades
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many batt...
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Mensagem
Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in iso...
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The Charlots Return
Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has sin...
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Jaz Morto e Arrefece
Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?...
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Requiem
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are th...
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Foreign Land
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land a...
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's...
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Light Traps
Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário kno...
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La Gamine
A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. Ther...
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Uma Hora de Amor
António, a factory worker of immense musical talent, is discovered by a business man who launches hi...
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A Moura Encantada
A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “encha...
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