Carloto Cotta

Carloto Cotta

Birthday: 1984-01-31

Place of Birth: Parigi, Francia

Biography: Carloto Cotta is a Portuguese actor, born in Paris on January 31, 1984. He grew up in Lisbon, and at the age of 15 he started his acting training at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais. He made his film debut in Miguel Gomes' 31 (2003). Since then, Cotta has been a regular presence in the Portuguese cinema. He got the attention of the critics and audiences with his lead role in the short film Arena (2009), that won the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. Carloto Cotta got international recognition with his performance in Tabu (2012).

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Hotel Royal
Hotel Royal

'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and obser...

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Amelia’s Children
Amelia’s Children

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent v...

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You Won't Be Alone
You Won't Be Alone

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a ...

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Banzo
Banzo

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infecte...

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Les fleurs du mal
Les fleurs du mal

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position a...

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The Portuguese Nun
The Portuguese Nun

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the cha...

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Tabu
Tabu

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relation...

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Passion
Passion

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a roo...

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Lines of Wellington
Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napole...

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Arena
Arena

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His re...

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The Face You Deserve
The Face You Deserve

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a...

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Nobody
Nobody

@nobody cams on social media under the virtual persona of a sweet and sexy anime doll. But the girl ...

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O Capacete Dourado
O Capacete Dourado

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at ...

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Demain?
Demain?

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventiona...

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31 Means Trouble
31 Means Trouble

This is the way you hold the racket to play a forehand. Just move your arm back, the left shoulder f...

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Bairro
Bairro

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a chi...

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The Flesh
The Flesh

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the scriptu...

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We Are on Air
We Are on Air

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fá...

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Fin de curso
Fin de curso

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to conti...

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Here in Lisbon
Here in Lisbon

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad...

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O Dez
O Dez

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology....

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Cândido
Cândido

A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given t...

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Forgotten
Forgotten

José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memori...

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Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic....

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Two Drifters
Two Drifters

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pre...

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To Die Like a Man
To Die Like a Man

A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also dealing...

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The Hunchback
The Hunchback

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a techn...

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Zeus
Zeus

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: bec...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights o...

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This Night
This Night

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a...

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Freud und Friends
Freud und Friends

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious....

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4 Hearts
4 Hearts

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine ...

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Diamantino
Diamantino

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitaliz...

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How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commissi...

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Frankie
Frankie

When a terminally ill French actress decides to spend her last vacation with her large family in Sin...

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Senhor X
Senhor X

Cinema is the true life....

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Field of Blood
Field of Blood

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a cr...

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Light in the Tropics
Light in the Tropics

A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the fores...

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Los Barcos
Los Barcos

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody el...

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In Every Dream Home a Heartache
In Every Dream Home a Heartache

An essay about disaffection in 7 segments inspired by Stendhal's seven stages of love, "De L'Amour" ...

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Colo
Colo

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husba...

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How to Draw a Perfect Circle
How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their se...

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Moço
Moço

Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset...

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Fratelli
Fratelli

Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...

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Mountain
Mountain

Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s grandfa...

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L'arc-en-ciel
L'arc-en-ciel

Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese partner...

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The Tsugua Diaries
The Tsugua Diaries

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of...

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Night for Day
Night for Day

For her newly commissioned video "Night 4 Day," Wardill has used the fake relationship between a mot...

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Delírio em Las Vedras
Delírio em Las Vedras

Seven competing reporters are assigned to cover the Carnavael de Torres Vedras in Lisbon. Each of th...

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Mysteries of Lisbon
Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the di...

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