Nicolau Breyner (Actor)
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Little is known about Nicolau Breyner, a figure with a modest footprint in Actor. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Release Date2007-02-19
Charactersd Alberto Lacerda
Episode Count218
Vote Count1
Release Date1993-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Luís Arruda
Episode Count135
It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valença, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon's luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal's smallest colony, the island of São Tomé e Principe.
Release Date2008-12-21
Charactersd Mário Maltez
Episode Count30
Vote Count6
This Portuguese comedy show is about the daily lifes of neighbours living at Campo de Ourique, with really confusing life stories.
Release Date2006-05-19
Charactersd João
Episode Count52
Vote Count4
Release Date2005-01-14
Charactersd João Semana
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Release Date1994-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Garçon
Episode Count1
Pedro e Inês is a Portuguese television series first aired on RTP1 in 2005, based on the story of Peter I of Portugal and Inês de Castro.
Release Date2005-10-07
Charactersd D. Afonso IV
Episode Count13
The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.
Release Date1988-10-04
Charactersd Major Ilídio
Episode Count120
Release Date2003-10-03
Charactersd Afonso Santos
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Nico, his family and their friends are back for this continuation of 1990's comedy show Nico d'Obra (1993).
Release Date2011-09-24
Charactersd Nico
Episode Count35
Vote Count2
Release Date2006-03-31
Charactersd Mr. Labão
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Release Date2000-10-03
Charactersd Pai Augusto
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
"An Azorean Family" tells the story of a wealthy family of São Miguel (Azores, Portugal) in the second half of the XIX century.
Release Date2013-10-13
Charactersd José do Canto
Episode Count8
Release Date2001-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Voz na Rádio/Cliente do Café (uncredited)
Episode Count1
Release Date1988-07-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Carlos Jorge
Episode Count1
Release Date1982-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Horácio
Episode Count12
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
Charactersd Forrester
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
Release Date2013-03-07
Charactersd Da Silva
Vote Count418
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
Release Date1977-03-10
Charactersd Prince's Aid
Vote Count36
A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro"), a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
Release Date2005-10-27
Charactersd Cónego Francisco Dias
Vote Count39
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Release Date2008-11-06
Charactersd Augusto Cardoso
Vote Count13
Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life.
Release Date2009-01-21
Charactersd Don Francesco
Vote Count13
This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!
Release Date1984-03-14
Charactersd Pedro Justiceiro
Vote Count6
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Release Date2016-06-02
Charactersd Leopold Stern
Vote Count75
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...
Release Date2003-11-07
Charactersd Joaquim Malarranha
Vote Count11
Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
Release Date2017-04-20
Charactersd Patrão
Vote Count1
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Release Date2000-05-29
Charactersd Docteur Charcot
Vote Count4
Trafaria changes his business to Angola, in search of a more profitable occupation, by shaming the pioneers. There he engages in the obscure social and political environment, from which emerge some characteristic figures - administrators, their wives and secretaries, Arabs, police officers, priests and mercenaries...
Release Date1974-04-11
Charactersd Salferlide / Casanova do Vale
Vote Count1
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
Release Date1999-03-14
Charactersd Coluna
Vote Count28
Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
Release Date1999-12-24
Charactersd Nunes
Vote Count3
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Release Date2014-09-25
Charactersd Joaquim
Vote Count21
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.
Release Date2004-11-04
Charactersd Fernando Almeida
Vote Count5
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Release Date2007-11-01
Charactersd the Presidente
Vote Count11
Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the story of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the first day of rain and sun, Carica embarks on adventure.
Release Date2004-03-12
Charactersd Grandfather / Vagabundo
Vote Count1
A Portuguese American businessman is deported to Portugal, where he sinks into debt and is driven to take part in a money scheme.
Charactersd Tio Nico
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds. Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon brothels, but she is such a special girl that a rich man invites her to live in his house and presents her to the high society of Lisbon. But her past will not stop chasing her and Salomé, who thought that this would be the beginning of a new life, will eventually lose everything by becoming an involuntary character of this miracle that agitated the country...
Release Date2004-05-13
Charactersd Sertório Cerqueira
Vote Count5
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.
Release Date2010-01-28
Charactersd TV director
Vote Count21
João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...
Release Date1962-05-30
Charactersd Man in black
Vote Count5
Roberta is a renowned classical pianist battling a chronic kidney disease. However, an unexpected encounter with Father José will forever change her life.
Release Date2012-01-26
Charactersd Dom Lázaro
Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures... ~ FICA
Release Date2009-11-09
Charactersd Comandante Ernesto
Vote Count11
In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner.
Release Date1976-11-01
Charactersd Chiromant
The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee. In flight, turns out to have an accident during a snowstorm and, despite being in despair, eventually finding a home.
Release Date2012-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Mandante
Vote Count1
Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.
Release Date2009-01-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Georgios Thanatos
Vote Count6
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
Charactersd Eduardo Coelho
Vote Count9
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Release Date1995-04-06
Charactersd Father Antonio
Vote Count79
After being sentenced to community service, Sara begins working with Artur, a lonely septuagenarian in a wheelchair.
Release Date2012-08-19
Charactersd Artur
Vote Count1
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
Charactersd Bernardo
Vote Count1
João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.
Release Date2014-11-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd the doctor
Vote Count13
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Release Date2007-12-27
Charactersd Carlos Meireles
Vote Count22
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
Release Date1982-02-19
Charactersd Hipólito do Ó
Vote Count6
A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
Release Date1970-02-11
Charactersd Henrique
Vote Count1
TV movie from the series "A la Minuta," an action comedy with a very special "gang."
Release Date1991-01-01
Charactersd Chefe Trancoso
Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in Alentejo, he knows that sooner or later " they" will find him, yet he does not want to flee with a new identity until he finds his lover Alice. "They" find him and he has to escape with the help of Matilde. A fascinating woman who will now give him shelter and pretends to help him find Alice. Time is running out for Mário and Alice.
Release Date1993-06-25
Charactersd Trindade
José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.
Release Date2009-05-14
Charactersd Escritor francês
Vote Count18
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
Release Date2009-05-28
Charactersd Soares
In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.
Release Date2013-11-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd God
Vote Count26
Nine-year-old Paulo stumbles upon a photograph of Miguel, the grandfather he never met, sets out to track him down and eventually meets him, at which point the magic begins.
Release Date2007-05-30
Charactersd Miguel Salgado
Vote Count4
While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that contains... 200 thousand dollars worth of jewelery stolen by the two girls in Marbella.
Release Date1968-01-05
Charactersd Tó-Zé
A nobleman from Alentejo, from a very conservative family, intends to reconquer Olivenza, returning the situation to the times of the Treaty of Tordesillas. To this end, he creates two movements, which prepare for the big day. However, these plans do not work, as the daughter of the Mayor of Olivenza falls in love with the son of the Baron of Altamira, and the war will be different...
Release Date1986-03-07
Charactersd Tenente-Coronel Horta da Costa
The Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca are ruined. Poor management and the pride of D. Luís have led the estate to this situation. However, Jorge, the eldest son, is not happy with this and decides to ask for help from a farmer who has prospered: Tomé da Póvoa. Tomé da Póvoa has a daughter who was educated outside the village and is now returning home. Jorge falls in love with her. But the proud and inflexible D. Luís, Jorge's father, does not agree with either Jorge's proposed economic recovery plan or his passion for a commoner.
Release Date1963-01-01
Charactersd Maurício
Vote Count1
Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One day, while carrying out his profession, he falls in love with the corpse of the girl he killed.
Release Date2005-04-27
Charactersd Taxista
A sentimental comedy about... toothpicks. The hero manufactures and exchanges toothpicks for countless goods because he ignores the value of money. "The Millionaire" is his nickname. He runs around the city, happy, meeting friends: Carlitos, the newsboy, and Celeste, the lemon seller. His innocent life contrasts with the city, full of traps and dangers.
Release Date1962-09-07
Charactersd Motorista
Vote Count1
During a tour of the province, someone mistakenly leaves a baby in a singer's car without him noticing. António decides to take the child in, with Madalena, a fellow artist. But the presumed mother, claiming it was a mistake, enlists the help of her brother, a police officer, which leads to a chase to Porto.
Release Date1967-09-21
Charactersd Costa
Vote Count1
In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name "Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years ago. Lisbon, 2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei, who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan Order in Lisbon's Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a legendary mirror, "The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi", that was said to have allowed St Francis to see the next morning. On the day of his departure, Joseph, at the train station, literally bumps into Giulia, a beautiful and irreverent Italian writer with whom he establishes an immediate chemistry. Giulia tells Joseph she came to Lisbon to try to find a mysterious Portuguese singer who her father had a relationship with in Lisbon before he left to fight for the Portuguese in their colonial war.
Release Date2007-05-01
Charactersd Joseph - 2035
Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company.
Release Date1969-11-05
Charactersd João
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Release Date2009-09-12
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Festival da Canção or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival, produced and broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal to choose the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Release Date1964-02-02
Charactersd Self - Presenter
Episode Count3
A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
Release Date1998-01-27
Charactersd Self
Portuguese fictional feature film directed by Henrique Campos.
Release Date1964-01-23
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Release Date1993-11-24
Vote Count8
The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago, during the conquests of D. Afonso Henriques.
Release Date1978-05-09
Vote Count1
Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares.
Release Date1964-09-18
Vote Count1
Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy.
Release Date2006-10-01
The best way to discover a city is through its people. 'Show Me Lisbon' reveals the city as seen by thirteen locals, or lisboetas - who were either born there or moved there by choice and who are of different generations, areas and backgrounds. The result is a dynamic, relaxed and realistic portrait of Lisbon that looks at themes such as what it means "to be a lisboeta", the light, the river, the food, the sounds, the history, the ethnic mixes, fado and the city's facades. The artist Joana Vasconcelos, the musician Rodrigo Leao, the writer Richard Zenith, the fado singer Carminho, the street artist Vhils and the historian Jose Sarmento Matos, alongside the knife sharpeners, fishwives, old ladies of Alfama and the festival singers who show the city as it is lived in its traditional quarters. Show me Lisbon is the follow-up to Show me Rio and the second film in the Show me Cities series.
Release Date2015-01-01
"Laurinha," the documentary, brings back from oblivion and silence the great Laura Alves, one of the best Portuguese actresses of all time. In this documentary, we get to know a woman with boundless energy and unafraid to speak her mind. We discover her life, the people she shared moments with, her family, and her loves. We also explore what motivated her immense dedication to her work and confront her tragic, premature end, marked by illness and loneliness.
Release Date2012-09-20