Gonçalo Waddington (Actor)

Terra Mãe

Release Date1998-03-09

Charactersd Gonçalo de Castro

Episode Count146

Vote Count1

Ajuste de Contas

Release Date2000-11-13

Charactersd Filipe

Episode Count150

Vote Count1

Filhos do Vento

Release Date1997-04-06

Charactersd Jorge (jovem)

Episode Count150

Vote Count1

Filha do Mar

Release Date2001-09-03

Charactersd Vítor

Episode Count169

Vote Count2

A Senhora das Águas

Release Date2001-09-03

Charactersd Lucas (jovem)

Episode Count150

Vote Count1

Odisseia

A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.

Release Date2013-01-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Gonçalo

Episode Count8

Vote Count9

Esquadra de Polícia

Release Date1999-09-13

Charactersd Antero

Episode Count26

Vote Count1

Ninguém Como Tu

Luíza Albuquerque sees her life collapse after her daughter runs away from the altar. Shortly after, in an increasingly stifling relationship, she receives a fatal sentence: she has only one year to live, and no amount of money in the world, which she has accumulated – not always in the best way – will be able to save her. Faced with this revelation, she decides to be happy in the short time she has left, even if it means ruining the lives of her sisters and her own daughter.

Release Date2025-11-24

Charactersd António Paiva Calado

Episode Count20

Último a Sair

An original and unique parody to reality shows. In Portugal, different celebrities, from different artistic areas, "live" together in a house where everything looks real, but it's not. Pure comedy and social satire.

Release Date2011-05-08

Charactersd Gonçalo Waddington

Episode Count37

Vote Count12

Star Sailors

The fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary- navigandum est.

Release Date2025-01-27

Charactersd Sacadura Cabral

Episode Count6

O Americano

Early 80’s. A group of criminal’s spreads terror across the Algarve with more than 20 bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they call "The Doctor" and a carpenter who earns the nickname of "The Cowboy". Captured and sentenced to 18 years in prison he becomes the protagonist of the bloodiest escape in Portuguese prison history.

Release Date2024-12-02

Charactersd Primo Amândio

Episode Count8

Fateful Dawn

Filipe, a municipal architect known for his idealism and commitment to environmental causes, is the only person who can stop the construction of a luxury real estate development in a protected area. Maria Rodrigues, a young prosecutor, is pursuing a lead in a high-level financial corruption case. At the same time, the reopening of a closed case, in which she was the victim, forces her to confront the deep and painful trauma of a night that took place 15 years before. As she takes the investigation into her own hands, she struggles with the hazy memories of the rape and hit-and-run. Filipe is one of the main suspects, but was it really him?

Release Date2026-04-13

Charactersd Luís Morais

Episode Count6

Polícias

Release Date1996-10-03

Charactersd João Luís

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Teorias da Conspiração

Conspiracy Theories

Release Date2019-01-25

Charactersd Pedro Soares Teixeira

Episode Count18

A Raia dos Medos

Release Date2000-02-11

Charactersd Guarda Silvério

Episode Count13

Vote Count2

Até Amanhã, Camaradas

The underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime.

Release Date2005-01-28

Charactersd Vaz

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Release Date2012-10-04

Charactersd Zanaga / Espião

Vote Count45

Finisterra

Release Date2025-03-10

Charactersd Basílio Marreiros

Episode Count7

Natural Law

After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk.

Release Date2022-01-05

Charactersd Attorney Renato

Episode Count7

Vote Count8

Os Contemporâneos

Release Date2008-05-04

Charactersd Várias Personagens

Episode Count42

Vote Count5

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

Release Date2009-09-23

Charactersd Carteiro

Vote Count25

Grand Tour

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

Release Date2024-11-27

Charactersd Edward

Vote Count45

Noite Sangrenta

Release Date2010-10-23

Charactersd Abel Olímpio

Episode Count2

Conde de Abranhos

Release Date2000-10-03

Charactersd Dr. Tavares

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Além do Horizonte - A Travessia

Release Date2025-11-01

Charactersd Sacadura Cabral

Não Há Duas Sem Três

Release Date1997-10-07

Charactersd Alberto

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Blood Curse

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.

Release Date2006-02-24

Charactersd António

Vote Count31

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!

Release Date2015-07-29

Charactersd Filho que rouba / Careto / Vasco

Vote Count43

Nothing Ever Happened

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.

Release Date2022-09-29

Charactersd Pai Paulo

Vote Count4

Saint George

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Release Date2017-03-09

Charactersd Chef Cardoso

Vote Count24

Banzo

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?

Release Date2024-12-25

Charactersd Raimundo

Vote Count3

Sombras Brancas

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.

Release Date2023-04-20

Charactersd Captain

Vote Count2

Assim Assim

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

Release Date2012-04-05

Charactersd Médico

Vote Count1

Misbegotten

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.

Release Date2007-09-05

Charactersd Augusto

Vote Count4

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 that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

Release Date2015-08-26

Charactersd Passarinheiro

Vote Count38

Vai Correr Tudo Bem

“Vai Correr Tudo Bem” is a Portuguese comedy web series created by and starring Guilherme Geirinhas. The show follows a fictionalized version of Geirinhas as he humorously navigates themes such as anxiety, impostor syndrome, the pressures of creative work and the emotional challenges of being a comedian in the public eye.

Release Date2023-11-26

Charactersd Manuel

Episode Count1

The Portuguese Falcon

A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".

Release Date2015-04-23

Charactersd Capitão Falcão

Vote Count40

Patrick

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.

Release Date2019-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Portuguese PJ

Vote Count8

Alice

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Release Date2005-09-28

Charactersd airport security

Vote Count34

Anjo Caído

A boy lives with his mother and younger sister. One day, his mother disappears with her lover, leaving the two children alone. António, the older brother, takes care of his sister, Maria da Luz. The little girl is about 10 months old. When she starts walking, their mother reappears with her lover, takes the girl, and leaves the boy behind. António is devastated, as he had been living for several months with a single goal: to protect his sister.

Release Date2001-09-29

Charactersd Polícia

Vote Count1

Coro dos Amantes

Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues.

Release Date2014-04-27

Charactersd Ele

Vote Count3

Bloody Night

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…

Release Date2010-10-23

Charactersd Abel Olímpio

Vote Count1

Remains of the Wind

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

Release Date2022-09-22

Charactersd Vítor

Vote Count16

Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes

The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve.

Release Date2019-11-21

Charactersd Bancário Pacote de Açúcar

Vote Count5

Entre os Dedos

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

Release Date2008-10-22

Charactersd Nuno

Vote Count6

April Showers

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.

Release Date2009-01-26

Charactersd Pedro

Vote Count2

Mariphasa

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything threatens to crack.

Release Date2017-07-09

Charactersd Segurança

Vote Count2

Projecto Global

Lisbon, 1980s, Rosa, a woman joins a group of young people disappointed at the post-Revolutionary Portugal. Part of a far-left clandestine armed organization, they share political views and a daily life that makes them grow closer. But their idealism collides head-on with a changing country and a large-scale police operation targeting them. Fleeing on a road with no return and no way forward, their existence is made up of bank robberies, bombs, friendships, prison, love and death. Trapped, their only choice is to keep on the run until they get arrested or killed.

Release Date2026-04-23

Charactersd Amanuense

Yvone Kane

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.

Release Date2015-02-26

Charactersd João

Vote Count4

Hell

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

Release Date2011-05-04

Charactersd The Father

Vote Count11

Until Tomorrow, Comrades

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.

Release Date2013-11-07

Charactersd Vaz

Vote Count3

The Secret Agent

An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution.

Release Date2015-02-19

Charactersd Ass't Commissioner

Vote Count2

Caiu

In the 50s, a poor rural family crosses the Alentejo scrubland to bury a relative. But the road holds a surprise for them: a closed chest, half-buried in the arid soil. Perhaps it's a gift from heaven, perhaps it's the opposite...

Release Date2024-05-28

Charactersd Pai

O Outro Lado de Patrick

A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists.

Release Date2020-08-17

Charactersd Himself

Immaculate

A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope.

Release Date2013-04-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Creeks

In the mid-1940s, in a Portugal mired in poverty and illiteracy, a group of boys work in the potteries of Alhandra, on the coast, collecting clay to make tiles and bricks. Gineto, Sagui, Malesso, Guedelhas and Gaitinhas form strong friendships and bonds of camaraderie, while dreaming of other places and embarking on liberating adventures, facing the harshness of work, the daily dramas of family life, hunger, abuse and injustice with courage, rebellion and determination. In the end, their unity always prevails in a world of adults who do not understand them.

Charactersd Manuel do Bote

Aljubarrota

A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation.

Release Date2008-10-11

Charactersd Nuno Álvares Pereira

Vote Count2

Capitão Falcão: Terror no Museu

The most famous duo of Portuguese superheroes are called once again to the office of Fascist PM António de Oliveira Salazar. Turns out communists are trying to invade the Natural History Museum. What do they want this time around?

Release Date2015-04-24

Charactersd Capitão Falcão

Nuno Álvares Pereira: O Condestável

Release Date2025-06-24

Charactersd D. Nuno Álvares Pereira

How We Got Mother Back

Shortly after the death of his wife, a father of four retreats into bed and into mourning until the house is left to self-manage. The older children think about how to pull him out of this stupor; the eldest begins by mimicking their mother's voice. Soon, the game spirals out of control, just like each of their identities.

Release Date2024-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Mosquito

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.

Release Date2020-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count23

Nenhum Nome

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care unit. K, a 30 year old nurse, will help X during his rehabilitation. K is also 6 months pregnant. This curious detail makes their apparent impersonal relationship stronger.

Release Date2011-05-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Glória

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.

Release Date2021-11-05

Episode Count10

Vote Count36

Ruído

In dystopic times, after a law that prohibits laughter was approved, people live in an environment of fear and mistrust. The freedom to express any kind of joy in public no longer exists. As part of the resistance, a group of actors and scriptwriters decide to create a clandestine movement allowing people to laugh in secret. Everything else is noise.

Release Date2025-05-07

Episode Count8

Vote Count5

Bruno Aleixo's Film

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.

Release Date2020-01-23

Vote Count8

Handing Over

A man has to sell the home he has spent such happy times in. His daughters have grown up and left. Reluctantly, he shows the house for some buyers: a young couple with a kid. When they arrive, in love and so happy, the house owner sees a reflection of himself years before. This unexpected glimpse of his past makes handing over somehow easier to bear…

Release Date2007-01-01