Jorge Paixão da Costa (Directing)
Little is known about Jorge Paixão da Costa, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Cândido
A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life
Release Date:2024-05-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Lúcia - A Guardiã do Segredo
Release Date:2023-05-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Maluda
Inspired by the biography of the portuguese painter Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro, known as Maluda, who found the stage of her art in Lisbon.
Release Date:2021-11-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Crónica dos Bons Malandros
Release Date:2020-12-02
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:1
The Art of Dying Far Away
Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing all their assets, Arnaldo e Barbara still have one decision to make before they formalize their separation: what to do with the turtle? Amongst hesitation and failed solutions, unintended burglaries, police stations, plastic natures and misunderstandings, a single turtle fate is postponing this couple's separation. Because they know that, when they give the turtle back to its natural habitat, their relationship will be over. Are they ready for that last step?
Release Date:2020-08-31
Character:Tio Valentim
The Spy
The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.
Release Date:2020-04-08
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:2
Jazzé Duarte
A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"
Release Date:2019-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Soldier Millions
A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions.
Release Date:2018-04-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Jacinta
The story of Jacinta, one of the three children involved in the Marian apparition reported in 1917 at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal.
Release Date:2017-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Lápis Azul
A colonel working for Censorship, widower, learns that his wife read banned books in his absence, "New Portuguese Letters" and "My Lady of Me". The colonel will discover the woman he did not know in life through the poems that she read. As the revolution arrives in April 25, 1974, the Colonel will remain true to their convictions although the poems have already influenced his own life.
Release Date:2012-07-01
Character:Mário Albuquerque
República
Release Date:2010-10-04
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:1
The Mystery of Sintra
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.
Release Date:2007-05-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:Priest
Vote Count:9
Codename: Sintra
The murder of an important politician leads the police to investigate a traditional family. But they already have its share of unsolved crimes, starting with the unclear death of an English officer in the family estate, in 1870. Can all these crimes be intertwined?
Release Date:2007-01-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:2
O Mergulho
Release Date:2005-05-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A Ferreirinha
The life of Antonia Ferreira (popularly known as "Ferreirinha") from her widowhood to her death, including her role in the production and marketing of the Port wine.At the same time it's told the love story between Camilo Castelo Branco and Ana Plácido.
Release Date:2004-09-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:2
Fugas.pt
Release Date:2003-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Sociedade Anónima
Release Date:2002-01-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
A Raia dos Medos
Release Date:2000-02-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:1
Devolvidos
A document about the memory and life of men and women who lived in a Portuguese-American community and were once repatriated. Tony, Dulce, António, Manuel and Mário have one thing in common: they have been convicted in a harsh justice that repatriated them after many years of imprisonment. Within the Portuguese-American community to which they belonged, everyone worked regularly when the US authorities decided to reopen their court proceedings.
Release Date:2000-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Não És Homem Não És Nada
Release Date:1999-11-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Emanuel Boavida
Episode Count:1
Women
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Release Date:1997-10-17
Character:Drunk at Bar
Vote Count:4
Polícias
Release Date:1996-10-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Sinfrónio
Episode Count:2
Roseira Brava
Release Date:1996-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Homem a sair da Estação (uncredited)
Episode Count:150
Desencontros
Release Date:1995-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:145
Zona+
Release Date:1994-09-19
Character:Próprio
Episode Count:1
Na Paz dos Anjos
Release Date:1994-04-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:160
Goodbye Princess
Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9
Release Date:1992-05-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Aqui D'El Rei!
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Release Date:1992-04-24
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:4
Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Luísa e os Outros
The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
Release Date:1989-10-20
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Cozinheiro
Ballad of Dog Beach
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Release Date:1987-03-12
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:10
Dead Man's Seat
A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
Release Date:1984-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:9
A Bee in the Rain
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
Release Date:1972-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:12