Luís Lima Barreto
Acting
Biography
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Known For
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.
A Filha
Operation Autumn
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.
The Divine Comedy
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
The Fifth Empire
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.
April Captains
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
Pilgrimage
Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human palpitation of one of the greatest historical adventures of man.
Word and Utopia
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
Dead Man's Seat
A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
Filmography
as Joaquim
as Fernando Pessoa
as Manuel Rato
as Fernando Pessoa
as Padre Jesuíta
as Juiz Auditor
as Zorrilla San Martin
as Melo
as Desembargador
as Conselheiro
as Father Pacheco
as 2nd Minister
as Pedro Luminares
as Pharisee
as Álvaro Allen