Rui Morisson
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Rui Morisson.
Born: June 27, 1948
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
Apparition
A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
Sombras Brancas
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
Jardins Proibidos
Mysteries of Lisbon
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
3 Women
A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.
O Espelho Lento
The story of Carla and Marta, the daughter who is seriously ill. In Barcelona, Carla discovers a special mirror, which is an open door to the past: it keeps the reflection for several years instead of returning it immediately. Carla offers her daughter the mirror and it will change their lives forever.
Ruth
This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.
Timeless Love
Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by love.
A Morte de Carlos Gardel
Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.
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.
Filmography
as Pedro
as Bernardo
as Matos
as José Cardoso Pires
as Fernando Torres
as António
as (voice)
as Advogado
as Dr. Sampaio
as Julio de Matos
as Manuel Sousa Santos
as The Producer
as Juiz
as Martins da Cruz
as Álvaro
as Dr. Moura
as D. Pedro Silva
as L'animateur Ciné Club
as Ricardo
as Maldonado
as Velho Vilaça
as Luís Gama
as Lourenço
as Fontana
as Santiago
as Alberto
as Álvaro
as Marquis of Montezelos
as Marquês de Montezelos
as Homem Funeral
as Emanuel mota
as Carlos Albuquerque
as Dr. Teixeira
as Médico
as Almeida
as Domingos Botelho
as The barman
as the Public Attorney
as Narrator
as Camarada do Secretariado
as Client
as D. Afonso IV
as João
as Fernando
as Dr. Gould
as Caçador/Narrador
as Manuel de Sousa Coutinho
as Pedro
as Voz
as Padre
as Jornalista