José Pinto
Acting
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Known For
Guardian Angel
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Abraham's Valley
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Jaime
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
A Falha
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.
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".
Rage
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
Inquietude
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.
Perdida Mente
The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it affects not only his own life but the lives of all those who surround him.
A Parideira
Somewhere on top of a mountain, there is a miraculous cave: it is the PARIDEIRA. Tells the legend that if an infertile woman enters there, she becomes pregnant out of the cave. But for that to happen, an adult must die within that night.
Filmography
as Salazar
as Sergeant Gil
as António de Oliveira Salazar
as Salazar
as António
as Horácio
as Raul Malagueta
as Pai de Rute
as Joaquim
as Storyteller (voice)
as Horácio
as Padre Manuel
as Miguel Torga
as Sr. José Sabino da Silva
as Father Vicente
as Grandfather
as Lionel
as Hunter
as Alfredo Ramadas
as The Plumber
as Cauteleiro
as Telmo Pais
as Provincial
as Worker
as Little girl's grandfather
as Raul Olivério
as Barbas
as Saúl
as Litter Pit Man #1
as Mendigo
as Father
as Serafim
as José
as Almirante Cunningham
as José Afonso
as Vários Papéis
as Belmiro Baptista
as Caires
as Gaspar
as Ti António
as Emigrante