João Pedro Bénard

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Banzo

as Dr. Figueira
Released: 2024-12-25

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

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Grand Tour

as Horace Seagrave
Released: 2024-11-27

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden...

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A Woman's Revenge

as Narrator
Released: 2012-03-29

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved,...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

as Humberto
Released: 2015-07-29

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

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Sombras Brancas

as Nurse / Al Capone
Released: 2023-04-20

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses...

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Recollections of the Yellow House

as Dairy clerk
Released: 1989-10-12

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family...

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4 Hearts

as Bar do Espanhol: Nando, the Barman
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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Rage

as Corona
Released: 2018-10-31

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and...

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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

as Homem de Fafe
Released: 2013-09-10

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which...

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River of Gold

as uncredited
Released: 1998-05-18

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries...

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I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You

as uncredited
Released: 2015-10-25

"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz...

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Alfama

as uncredited
Released: 2009-08-11

A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just...

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Ramiro

as Professor
Released: 2018-03-01

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat...

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Vanity

as Augusto
Released: 2004-01-01

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by...

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Journey to Portugal

as uncredited
Released: 2011-06-16

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also...

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Patrick

as uncredited
Released: 2019-09-21

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography...

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Coup de Grâce

as Sr. Silva
Released: 2017-02-10

A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following...

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The Sound of the Shaking Earth

as uncredited
Released: 1990-10-22

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who...

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The Face You Deserve

as medic
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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A True and Faithful Account

as Jogador de Póquer
Released: 1989-06-22

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de...

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Worth Your Weight in Gold

as Norberto
Released: 2022-07-14

Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the...

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Dead Man's Memories

as Der Fischer
Released: 2003-07-06

A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He...

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João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved

as Self
Released: 2015-10-08

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic,...

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Querença

as Adriano / Fagundes
Released: 2004-01-01

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in...

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Mariphasa

as Nuno
Released: 2017-07-09

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in...

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The Conquest of Faro

as Recepcionist
Released: 2005-01-01

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left....

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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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Beyond the Mountains

as uncredited
Released: 2017-02-02

In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel...

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Far From Amazónia

as Narration (voice)
Released: 2017-07-01

In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all...

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Tales from the Mountain

as uncredited
First aired: 2023-09-04

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the...

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