Virgílio Castelo (Actor)

St. Louis

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.

Release Date2019-10-21

Charactersd Dr. Josef Joseph

Vote Count7

Corruption

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 Vice-President

Vote Count12

Nazaré

“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope.

Release Date2019-09-09

Charactersd António Blanco

Episode Count211

Vote Count2

Saber Amar

Release Date2003-01-20

Charactersd António

Episode Count247

Vote Count1

Star Crossed

Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.

Release Date2009-06-04

Charactersd Pedro Escalus

Vote Count5

The Jester

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

Release Date1987-10-31

Charactersd Soldier

Vote Count10

Wild Land

To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.

Release Date2019-10-28

Charactersd Francisco Ferreira

Episode Count361

Vote Count1

Destinos Cruzados

Release Date2013-01-27

Charactersd Jaime Veiga de Andrade

Episode Count285

Olhos de Água

Release Date2001-02-20

Charactersd Padre Eduardo

Episode Count207

Vote Count2

Quarta Divisão

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?

Release Date2013-02-28

Charactersd Director Nacional PSP (voice)

Vote Count6

Filha do Mar

Release Date2001-09-03

Charactersd Diogo

Episode Count169

Vote Count1

A Passagem da Noite

Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.

Release Date2003-03-14

Charactersd delegado do Ministério Público

Vote Count4

O Olhar da Serpente

Release Date2002-09-30

Charactersd Rui Albuquerque Botelho

Episode Count150

Roseira Brava

Release Date1996-01-08

Charactersd Manolo

Episode Count150

Terra Nova

Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the way, he has to face storms, crew revolt and deal with the best and the worst of humanity when tested in extreme circumstances.

Release Date2021-10-28

Charactersd Capitão Silva

Vote Count6

And the World May End

What side is love on? Vera and Rodrigo are absolutely passionate about each other and get married, having João as the product of their love. But, like any other marriage, their relationship has its ups and downs between intense passion and their differing life views. Vera is a up and coming lawyer and Rodrigo an agronomy engineer. She's an urban woman who doesn’t do well in a rural environment while he loves the country and bulls, not too keen on city life. To make things worse, along comes Eduardo, Vera's boss and a brilliant but vicious lawyer. He hopes to prevent any possibility of reconciliation between Vera and Rodrigo and ensure that Vera keeps full custody of their son João. He wants this because, when he was deployed in Angola as a military, Eduardo swore to Rodrigo’s father João Maria, that he’d have his revenge.

Release Date2008-10-01

Charactersd Eduardo Morais

Episode Count181

Doomed Love

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

Release Date2008-08-13

Charactersd João da Cruz

Vote Count11

The Beauty and the Paparazzo

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 Gonçalo

Vote Count22

A Senhora das Águas

Release Date2001-09-03

Charactersd João Manuel

Episode Count150

Crónica Feminina

Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things

Release Date2002-03-28

Charactersd Vasco

Passerelle

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 António Gonzaga

Episode Count120

Ajuste de Contas

Release Date2000-11-13

Charactersd Inspector Soares

Episode Count150

Mulheres

The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.

Release Date2014-06-01

Charactersd Hélder Peralta

Episode Count146

Vote Count5

The Mata's Family

A family by force... Paulo and Susana have been together for a few years now and decide to take the next step in their relationship by moving in together. But, as they're signing the deed to the house, her father, who was supposed to bring the check, ends up delivering the bad news that there is no money for the house, thus ending this young couple’s dream. However, Artur doesn’t want to come off as a bad parent, so he offers his attic to them so that they can start their life together. So, Paulo’s dream turns into an absolute nightmare, as their life as a couple is, in fact, shared with seven other people who are all very different from them and will start controlling their every move in a permanently tense environment. The Mata family, as it turns out, is all insane, the only exception being Susana. And even her will have a hard time convincing the rest of the family to accept and welcome their new member.

Release Date2011-03-07

Charactersd Dário

Episode Count80

Filhos do Vento

Release Date1997-04-06

Charactersd Jorge Abrantes

Episode Count150

A Grande Aposta

Release Date1997-09-09

Charactersd Francisco Ramos

Episode Count150

Egas’ Ego

Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.

Release Date2020-12-31

Charactersd Sobral Cid

Vote Count1

Lady of Tides

On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

Release Date2024-02-05

Charactersd Adérito Ramalho

Episode Count312

Vote Count10

Vidas de Sal

Release Date1996-09-30

Charactersd João Fragoso

Episode Count150

Riscos

Release Date1997-10-04

Charactersd Edmundo

Episode Count70

Vote Count1

A Girl in Summer

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.

Release Date1986-12-11

Charactersd João

Vote Count4

True and Tender is the North

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.

Release Date2008-09-30

Charactersd Almeida Garrett

Vote Count9

IT´S CHICO TIME!

In 1974, Chico, a beloved host of a children’s TV show at the service of a repressive authoritarian regime, is forced to make the hardest decision of his life: murder a colleague live on air, or lose the approval of his powerful father. As the cameras roll, the program unravels into a surreal theatre of obedience, repression, and madness.

Release Date2025-07-10

Charactersd Eduardo Valentim

The Last Will

It is possible to start over even after experiencing hell. An unexpected inheritance and a crime give an unjustly treated woman the opportunity to change her life.

Release Date2025-01-27

Charactersd Raul Novais

Episode Count2

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

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 Macedo Soares

Vote Count76

Mistura Fina

Release Date2004-11-29

Charactersd Justino Lampreia

Episode Count110

Chronicle of Good Hoodlums

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 Carlos

Vote Count6

Homo Verum

In 1894, Gabriel, an ambitious medicine graduate, spends his summer learning from the renowned Doctor Fidalgo in his isolated Mansion. Upon developing a lustful admiration for Fidalgo's wife, the young doctor is forced to break his morals.

Release Date2023-01-01

Charactersd Dr. Fidalgo

Call Girl

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 Health Minister

Vote Count23

Life Is Beautiful

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 Teodoro Galã

Vote Count7

The Satin Slipper

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.

Release Date1986-01-08

Charactersd Officer

Vote Count8

Teorema de Pitágoras

João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he meets Ana. That girl will change his life and the way he sees the relationships between men and women, but not before a "little problem" called Sofia - a TV star in the movie - come into their relationship

Release Date2001-05-27

Charactersd António

Vila Faia

Release Date1982-05-10

Charactersd Pedro Castella

Episode Count100

The Donkey-Eared Prince

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.

Release Date1980-08-29

Charactersd General / Médico Galezus

Um Estranho em Casa

Release Date2002-01-01

Charactersd Francisco da Cunha

Episode Count60

Os Abismos da Meia-Noite

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.

Release Date1984-01-27

Charactersd Doctor

Vote Count1

O Fim da Inocência

Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.

Release Date2017-11-30

Charactersd Fernando

Vote Count27

Sozinhos em Casa

Release Date1993-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Charactersd Professor Castelo

Episode Count1

Super Pai

Release Date2000-12-25

Charactersd Alexandre

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

A Teacher's Gift

An ambitious Hindi language teacher in London, Rohan is under pressure for an arranged marriage with a smart Indian woman. But when a sophisticated Englishman enrols in his class, he develops a bond with him through shared interests in literature and cricket despite their age and cultural differences. A series of events leads him back to India where everyone must confront their past and decide the future.

Release Date2025-08-16

Charactersd Trevor

In Treatment

Susceptibility taken to its limit... In Therapy leads us into a journey along the intriguing and fascinating world of psychotherapy. As a therapist, Mário is faced with a different patient and their issues in his office every day of the week. However, as is customary, he has ongoing sessions himself with Graça, his mentor and fellow psychologist.

Release Date2016-01-04

Charactersd Mário Magalhães

Episode Count45

Polícias

Release Date1996-10-03

Charactersd Norberto

Episode Count2

Terra Nova

Release Date2020-06-03

Charactersd Capitão Silva

Episode Count13

Vote Count5

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.

Release Date2009-09-17

Charactersd Francisco Figueiredo

Vote Count10

Já Está

Release Date1987-04-25

Charactersd Dramatização

Episode Count1

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro

Release Date1994-12-06

Charactersd Pedro Caldeirada

Episode Count1

Ballet Rose

When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.

Release Date1998-09-21

Charactersd Polícia Álvaro

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Abandonados

Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him.

Release Date2022-12-21

Charactersd Canto de Resende

Episode Count7

Diário de Maria

Release Date1998-11-25

Charactersd Miguel Gaspar

Episode Count1

Saudades Para Dona Genciana

Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.

Release Date1986-01-31

Charactersd Augusto Gomes

Lives

Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.

Release Date1984-10-11

Charactersd Dynamiter in Prison

Regresso a Sizalinda

Release Date2010-07-17

Charactersd Vitalino

Episode Count1

Todo o Tempo do Mundo

Release Date1999-05-01

Charactersd Miguel Faria

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

País Irmão

Reality is much stranger than fiction. There is a scandal that could be revealed and the Portuguese Government is nervous. The Minister of Culture and her team have a crazy idea that, for that reason, can work: to produce, together with Brazil, the biggest and most spectacular telenovela of all time: "Corte Tropical".

Release Date2017-09-11

Charactersd Tony Santa Clara

Episode Count14

Vote Count2

Segredo de Justiça

Release Date2001-09-14

Charactersd Eduardo

Episode Count1

Idol Creators

At the age of 22, Sofia discovers that her father and grandfather belong to the “Order of Idol Makers”. This Order planned and executed the deaths of Socrates, John F. Kennedy, Elvis, Marylin Monroe, and many others in order to turn them into Idols. They believe that idols are necessary to inspire young people and to promote noble values in a society that is increasingly full of frivolous / vain / superficial ideas and people. Their death is the only way to immortalize the noblest among them. However, until now, only men who are sons of members of the Order were allowed to join. Now, for the first time, they’ve decided to give a woman the chance...

Release Date2025-03-01

Charactersd Henry

Vote Count4

Joaquim Letria

Release Date1990-10-24

Charactersd Theo Van Gogh

Episode Count1

Ainda Bem Que Apareceste

Release Date2008-07-19

Charactersd Apresentador

Episode Count12

Contactos 2.0

A man downloads a mobile app that gives terrible power over his contacts.

Release Date2014-01-01

Charactersd Produtor

O Mandarim

Release Date1991-11-09

Charactersd Diabo

Episode Count1

Ideias com História

Release Date1993-10-01

Charactersd Zé do Telhado

Episode Count1

Procura-se

Release Date1993-07-03

Charactersd Jorge Tavares Ribeiro

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

O Dia do Regicídio

Release Date2008-02-02

Charactersd Afonso Costa

Episode Count1

Humor de Perdição

"Humor de Perdição" was a humorous television program, broadcast by RTP in 1987

Release Date1988-04-03

Charactersd Porfírio

Episode Count12

Camarate

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.

Release Date2001-04-30

Charactersd Diogo

Vote Count8

Two Women

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 Paulo Amorim

Vote Count12

Cold Phosphorus

The story is set in a coastal town and follows the story of a man who has to come to terms with his hidden desires and longings. This leads to a confrontation with his past and his social relationships.

Release Date2017-02-10

Charactersd Afonso Luís Campos

Alta Definição

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Release Date2009-09-12

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Parabéns

Release Date1992-09-19

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Inspetor Max

"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.

Release Date2004-03-14

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Rapiscimi

Release Date2018-03-13

Vote Count2

Bairro

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.

Release Date2013-06-26

Vote Count5

O Outro Lado da Mentira

Rui Esteves is a thirty-something provincial doctor, praised for his human qualities towards the elderly and needy in a village where loneliness and abandonment are as much or more of a problem than illness and disease. When a controversial revelation exposes him as an impostor, Rui is removed from his position and forced to relive a past of pain and alcohol dependence.

Release Date2012-07-13

Meia Noite

A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstition, and is devastated when it comes true. She learns that someone in the city foresaw the same fate, and against his wishes, she returns to confront him, only to become the subject of another terrifying prophecy he issues about her own future.

Release Date1988-01-01

Fin de curso

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".

Release Date2005-07-15

Vote Count7

Pau Preto

Release Date1989-01-01

Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe

Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.

Release Date1986-08-06

Vote Count2

Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros

The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl.

Release Date1984-01-01

Marina, Marina

Release Date1992-09-18

Episode Count1

Passagem ou a Meio Caminho

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptical and painful attitude...

Release Date1986-02-25