Maria João Luís
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Maria João Luís.
Born: December 30, 1964
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
Bobô
Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts.
Alta Definição
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Cinerama
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.
Wild Land
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.
Médico de Família
Camarate
In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.
Side Effects
Side Effects is the story of a woman who's not afraid to believe that happiness is not only possible but the only truth to be achieved. A woman who won't give up believing in people. A woman who will fight against all adversities in order to let others not to give up a life worth living. Nowadays, the desire for happiness is a real heroic act.
Rua Sésamo
Bocage
The State I Am In
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
Filmography
as Maria Eduarda Gonçalves Ferreira
as Salomé Lemos
as Pilar tavares
as Ana
as Jacinta Lourenço
as Aunt
as Atriz na TV
as Maria Isabel do Canto
as Maria Isabel do Canto
as Laura
as Sofia's Mother
as Laurence
as Antónia Vieira da Silva
as Laura
as Alice Mendes Soares
as Sofia
as Dulce
as Self
as Maria Antónia Sacramento
as Atriz na TV/Irene Oliveira/Paula Mendes
as Ivone
as Professora Azinheira
as Filomena
as Cecília Bersane
as Sílvia Capelo
as Maria do Rosário Côrte-Real
as Filomena
as Maria Augusta Rosado
as Fifth Comite Lady
as Branca
as Rosário Lagoa
as Luisa
as Concierge
as Natércia
as Voice of Cathy (voice)
as Antónia Suzette Almeida, the sculptor
as Daisy
as Amélia Serrão
as Rita
as Ana
as Alice Arruda
as Isabel (voice)
as Laura
as Alda
as Helena (voice)
as Matilde Veiga
as Aunt
as Margarida
as Voz