Sylvie Rocha
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Sylvie Rocha.
Born: March 9, 1970
Place of Birth: Portugal
Known For
O Pedido de Emprego
A girl answers a job interview and little by little her past is revealed and called into question.
Cinemaamor
Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town looking for the right woman. But when found, she throws herself from a balcony. Then comes a dance, as in a musical, and an obvious surprise... A movie about beauty and glory that has more love stories.
God's Comedy
An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Antonio, a boy in Lisbon
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
In the Shadow of the Vultures
Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
Haircut
The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
Bad
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
The Fascination
An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from a novel with the same title by Tabajara Ruas.
A Força do Atrito
Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.
Zeus
Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be
Filmography
as Mãe
as Mother
as Dona Isaura
as Dona Turismo Rural
as Encarnacion
as Ana
as Voice of Marta (voice)
as Candidate
as Woman
as Helena
as Sara Lobo
as Laura
as Gisela
as Ursula
as Skin 2
as Clara
as Margarida
as Marta
as Própria
as Diana
as Lídia
as Espectadora