Carmen Santos
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 12, 1946
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
À Conversa com Ana Rita Clara
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.
Lucia of Fatima
Lucia of Fatima takes us back to the beginning of 20th century, allowing us to trace the whole journey of the girl behind the religious figure. During her childhood, the Fatima prophet was arrested, submitted to cruel interrogations, taken away from her family and denied the right to her own identity. Lucia resisted it all and kept her story alive. She was the guardian of the secret.
My Name Is Bernadette
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
News from the Good Lord
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.
Fatima
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
The Great Kilapy
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
O Lugar dos Sonhos
The story of a grandfather and his grandson, representing a meeting between generations.
After Everything
Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realizes he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.
Para Sempre
Pedro is an enigmatic man with only one goal: to get Clara back, his first and only love. However, this meeting is almost impossible. Above all, because she is engaged to his brother Lourenço, the man who Pedro will save. And what will Lourenço do when he realizes that his savior may, after all, steal everything from him?
Filmography
as Palmira
as Aging Woman
as Madre Clara Godinho
as Paysanne
as Lúcia (Anos 50)
as Alice
as Self - Guest
as Natália Lampreia
as Avo Lena
as Fernanda de Castro
as Lúcia Garcia
as Costureira
as Quitéria Rodrigues
as Otília Gouveia
as Mãe de Joãozinho (voice)
as Henriqueta
as Josephine Doucet
as Raquel Abecassis
as Custódia Sousa
as Mulher do Fotógrafo
as Maria Amélia
as Anita Castro
as Rosário
as Virgínia
as Laura
as Irene
as Palmira
as D. Carla
as Dulce
as Teresa
as Vitória
as Joana
as Mimi
as Rosarinho
as Senhora com o bebé
as Dona Elisa
as Manuela
as Laura Amado
as Inês
as Dra. Manuela
as Manuela
as Maria
as Sra. Menezes
as Maria Helena
as Mary Espírito Santo
as Henriqueta Vieira
as Arminda
as Margarida