Jorge Paixão da Costa (Director)
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Works
Roseira Brava
Release Date1996-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Homem a sair da Estação (uncredited)
Episode Count150
Women
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Release Date1997-10-17
Charactersd Drunk at Bar
Vote Count5
Não És Homem Não És Nada
Release Date1999-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Emanuel Boavida
Episode Count1
Zona+
Release Date1994-09-19
Charactersd Próprio
Episode Count1
Polícias
Release Date1996-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Sinfrónio
Episode Count2
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 Date2007-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Priest
Vote Count11
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 Date2012-07-01
Charactersd Mário Albuquerque
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 Date2020-08-31
Charactersd Tio Valentim
Ladrão que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão
TV movie from the series "A la Minuta," an action comedy with a very special "gang."
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
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 Date1989-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Charactersd Cozinheiro
Na Paz dos Anjos
Release Date1994-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count160
Lucia of Fatima
Lucia of Fatima takes us back to the beginning of 20th century, allowing us to trace the whole journey of the girl behind the religious figure. During her childhood, the Fatima prophet was arrested, submitted to cruel interrogations, taken away from her family and denied the right to her own identity. Lucia resisted it all and kept her story alive. She was the guardian of the secret.
Release Date2023-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
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 Date2021-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1992-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Crónica dos Bons Malandros
Release Date2020-12-02
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
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 Date2020-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
Desencontros
Release Date1995-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count145
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 Date2017-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
O Mergulho
Based on José Eduardo Agualusa's short story "Bigger Splash," "Mergulho" depicts encounters and missed encounters in love lives, some unlikely, which are dives into life's surprises.
Release Date2005-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2007-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
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 Date2004-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
Fugas.pt
Release Date2003-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Sociedade Anónima
Release Date2002-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
A Raia dos Medos
Release Date2000-02-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
À Porta da História
Release Date2015-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
República
Release Date2010-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Jazzé Duarte
A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"
Release Date2019-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2018-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
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 Date1987-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count10
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 Date1984-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count11
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 Date1992-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count4
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 Date2024-05-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
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 Date1972-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count12
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 Date2000-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector