Carloto Cotta

Born: 1984-01-31

Carloto Cotta is a Portuguese actor, born in Paris on January 31, 1984. He grew up in Lisbon, and at the age of 15 he started his acting training at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais. He made his film debut in Miguel Gomes' 31 (2003). Since then, Cotta has been a regular presence in the Portuguese cinema. He got the attention of the critics and audiences with his lead role in the short film Arena (2009), that won the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. Carloto Cotta got international recognition with his performance in Tabu (2012).


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You Won't Be Alone

as Boris
Released: 2022-04-01

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally...

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Amelia’s Children

as Ed / Manuel / Artur
Released: 2024-01-18

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a...

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Tabu

as Young Gian Luca Ventura
Released: 2012-04-05

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

as Tradutor
Released: 2015-06-24

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

as Paddleman
Released: 2015-08-26

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King,...

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Lines of Wellington

as Tenente Pedro de Alencar
Released: 2012-10-04

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of...

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Mysteries of Lisbon

as D. Álvaro de Albuquerque
Released: 2010-10-20

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

as Careto
Released: 2015-07-29

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious...

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Forgotten

as Marco
Released: 2014-07-31

José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by...

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Frankie

as Tiago
Released: 2019-08-28

About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of...

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How to Draw a Perfect Circle

as Boy at the party (uncredited)
Released: 2009-09-23

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering...

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This Night

as Garde Mobile
Released: 2009-01-07

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover...

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Diamantino

as Diamantino Matamouros
Released: 2018-11-28

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to...

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Banzo

as Afonso
Released: 2024-12-18

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation...

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Nobody

as @_santo84
Released: 2023-02-13

@nobody cams on social media under the virtual persona of a sweet and sexy anime doll. But the...

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Two Drifters

as Alberto
Released: 2005-05-18

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be...

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Fin de curso

as uncredited
Released: 2005-07-15

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide...

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How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal

as Fernando Pessoa / Álvaro de Campos
Released: 2018-10-11

Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the...

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Colo

as Homem na Estufa
Released: 2017-11-16

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her...

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Freud und Friends

as uncredited
Released: 2015-02-05

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.

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O Dez

as João (segment "Cara ou Coroa")
Released: 2010-03-13

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

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To Die Like a Man

as Carlos
Released: 2009-10-15

A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also...

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Arena

as Mauro
Released: 2009-05-23

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos....

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The Tsugua Diaries

as Carloto
Released: 2021-07-14

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The...

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The Portuguese Nun

as D. Sebastiao
Released: 2009-08-09

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the...

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31

as uncredited
Released: 2003-07-04

This is the way you hold the racket to play a forehand. Just move your arm back, the left...

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4 Hearts

as Centro Comercial: Ricardo
Released: 2009-08-20

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game...

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Les fleurs du mal

as Young Baudelaire
Released: 1991-11-13

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his...

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The Face You Deserve

as Texas
Released: 2005-03-23

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed...

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Cândido

as Agente Gaspar
Released: 2024-05-09

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Bairro

as Batman
Released: 2013-06-26

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a...

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Light in the Tropics

as uncredited
Released: 2020-02-25

A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the...

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O Capacete Dourado

as uncredited
Released: 2007-09-19

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers...

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Los Barcos

as uncredited
Released: 2016-01-29

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding...

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We Are on Air

as Vítor
Released: 2024-01-25

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s...

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Passion

as João Lucas
Released: 2012-02-09

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a...

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Here in Lisbon

as (segment "Los Barcos") / (segment "Freud and Friends")
Released: 2015-04-24

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are...

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Demain?

as Angel Falco
Released: 2011-10-16

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a...

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Field of Blood

as Ele
Released: 2022-06-23

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of...

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Arabian Nights

as uncredited
Released: 2015-05-16

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.

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Mountain

as Gustavo
Released: 2015-12-31

Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s...

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The Hunchback

as Timmy
Released: 2016-04-27

A delirious sci-fi riff on the Arabian Nights' 'Tale of the Hunchback', that submerges us in a...

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Moço

as Zé
Released: 2020-08-26

Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a...

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Fratelli

as uncredited
Released: 2012-01-27

Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the...

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The Flesh

as Jesus Christ
Released: 2010-04-23

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the...

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Hotel Royal

as uncredited
Released: 2021-07-14

'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and...

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Zeus

as Norberto Lopes
Released: 2017-01-05

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise:...

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L'arc-en-ciel

as uncredited
Released: 2009-10-21

Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese...

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Night for Day

as Man at Home
Released: 2021-03-01

For her newly commissioned video "Night 4 Day," Wardill has used the fake relationship between a...

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In Every Dream Home a Heartache

as uncredited
Released: 2014-04-20

An essay about disaffection in 7 segments inspired by Stendhal's seven stages of love, "De...

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Senhor X

as Colega
Released: 2010-01-01

Cinema is the true life.

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Elite

as Cruz Carvalho
First aired: 2018-10-05

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between...

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Santa Bárbara

as Fernando Beltrão
First aired: 2015-09-28

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Ilha dos Amores

as Miguel Valente
First aired: 2007-03-26

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Prisioneira

as Omar Maluf
First aired: 2019-05-21

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A Teia

as Jaime Rosa Neto
First aired: 2018-11-19

A man and a woman with no apparent connection are involved in a bizarre bank robbery, resulting...

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Glória

as uncredited
First aired: 2021-11-05

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer...

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Mysteries of Lisbon

as D. Álvaro de Albuquerque
First aired: 2011-05-01

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and...

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The American

as Tonton
First aired: 2024-11-17

Portugal. Early '80s. A group of criminals spreads terror across the Algarve, with more than...

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O Bairro

as Batman
First aired: 2014-03-17

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