Rita Blanco

Rita Blanco

Estreia-se como actriz na peça Mariana Espera Casamento, de Jean-Paul Wenzel, sob a direcção de Luís Miguel Cintra, em 1983. Conclui o Curso de Formação de Actores do Conservatório Nacional, em 1985. Ainda no Teatro da Cornucópia representou Perversões de David Mamet, dirigida por Miguel Guilherme e José Pedro Gomes; Antes que a Noite Venha de Eduarda Dionísio, com Adriano Luz; Sangue no Pescoço do Gato de Fassbinder, com Luís Miguel Cintra. Em 1989 participou em Como é Diferente o Amor em Portugal, adaptação da obra de Júlio Dantas, dirigida por Fernando Gomes. Nunca Nada de Ninguém de Luísa Costa Gomes, encenado por Ana Tamen valeu-lhe a nomeação para o Prémio Garrett para a Melhor Interpretação Feminina (1991). Em 1997 participou em Peter Pan de James Barrie, encenado por António Pires no São Luiz. No cinema foi dirigida por João Botelho (1994 - Três Palmeiras; 1999 Tráfico; 2003 - A Mulher Que Acreditava Ser a Presidente dos EUA; 2005 - O Fatalista), João Mário Grilo (1998 - Longe da Vista; 2002 - A Falha; 2000 - 451 Forte), José Nascimento (2000 - Tarde Demais), Teresa Villaverde (1998 - Os Mutantes), Manoel de Oliveira (1998 - Inquietude), João César Monteiro (1992 - O Último Mergulho) ou Jorge Silva Melo (1987 - Agosto; 1985 - Ninguém duas Vezes). Na televisão, apareceu em A Mala de Cartão (1988) série que contava com a participação de Irene Papas. Trabalhou junto do humorista Herman José, em Casino Royal (1989), Crime na Pensão Estrelinha (1990) e Serafim Saudade - o regresso do Herói (2001). Participou ainda em Sai da Minha1996, Médico de Família (1998/2000), A Minha Sogra é uma Bruxa (2003), na telenovela Tempo de Viver (2006) de Rui Vilhena (a sua estreia na TVI e em telenovelas) Conta-me como Foi (2007-2009). Apresentou com Henrique Mendes o concurso Caça ao Tesouro (1994). Em 2011 após 2 anos de ausência, regressa à televisão em grande dose trabalhando nos 3 canais Portugueses generalistas: primeiro na sitcom da SIC A Família Mata, depois no telefilme da TVI O Profeta e por fim na 2ª temporada da Série da RTP Maternidades. Salienta a sua colaboração com o encenador e cineasta João Canijo. Com ele trabalhou no teatro (1988 - Crimes do Coração de Beth Henley; 1987 - Jogos de Praia de Whitehead; 1994 - Confissões ao Luar de Eugene O'Neill; 2002 - Sete Vidas de Rosa Lobato de Faria), no cinema (1988 - Três Menos Eu (Festival Les Stars De Demain); 1990 - Filha da Mãe; 2001 - Ganhar a Vida; 2004 - Noite Escura) e na televisão (1990 - Alentejo sem Lei; 1996 - Sai da Minha Vida). Premiada em 2002 e 2012 com o Globo de Ouro na categoria de Melhor Actriz de Cinema, com Ganhar a Vida e Sangue do meu Sangue de João Canijo. Foi homenageada no Festival de Santa Maria da Feira em 2004. Em 2012, foi considerada na Gala SPAUTORES, a melhor actriz de cinema, devido à sua interpretação no filme Sangue do meu Sangue

  • Title: Rita Blanco
  • Popularity: 3.045
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1963-01-11
  • Place of Birth: Algés, Oeiras, Portugal
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Rita Blanco Movies

  • 2023
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    Living Bad

    Living Bad

    6 2023 HD

    A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that...

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  • 2023
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    Bad Living

    Bad Living

    6.1 2023 HD

    In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships...

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  • 2003
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    A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

    A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

    4.2 2003 HD

    Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

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  • 2007
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    Corruption

    Corruption

    3.8 2007 HD

    A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

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  • 1998
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    The Mutants

    The Mutants

    7.2 1998 HD

    Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...

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  • 1998
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    Traffic

    Traffic

    5.2 1998 HD

    Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

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  • 2011
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    Blood of My Blood

    Blood of My Blood

    7.2 2011 HD

    A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

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  • 2012
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    Assim Assim

    Assim Assim

    7 2012 HD

    Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

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  • 2012
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    Amour

    Amour

    7.77 2012 HD

    Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her...

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  • 2008
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    True and Tender is the North

    True and Tender is the North

    5.1 2008 HD

    Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the...

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  • 2011
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    The Actor's Work

    The Actor's Work

    4 2011 HD

    Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the...

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  • 2007
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    O Capacete Dourado

    O Capacete Dourado

    5.5 2007 HD

    The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...

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  • 2012
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    1 2012 HD

    She arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the newspaper. Finally, she decides to bake some special cookies.

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  • 2022
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    Um Filme em Forma de Assim

    Um Filme em Forma de Assim

    4.3 2022 HD

    Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations,...

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  • 2013
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    The Gilded Cage

    The Gilded Cage

    6.7 2013 HD

    In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in...

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  • 2000
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    Tarde Demais

    Tarde Demais

    5.9 2000 HD

    A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...

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  • 1990
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    Lovely Child

    Lovely Child

    6.2 1990 HD

    Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

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  • 2001
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    Get a Life

    Get a Life

    6.8 2001 HD

    During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...

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  • 2024
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    Amelia’s Children

    Amelia’s Children

    6.2 2024 HD

    When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern...

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  • 2022
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    The Tyrant Father

    The Tyrant Father

    6.4 2022 HD

    This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings....

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  • 1989
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    In Search of the Equator

    In Search of the Equator

    1 1989 HD

    A film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie just dumped her boyfriend, who's married and can see...

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  • 1988
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    Agosto

    Agosto

    6.8 1988 HD

    Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial...

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  • 2014
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    The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

    The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

    5.9 2014 HD

    The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend,...

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  • 2012
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    Vá Cavar Batatas

    Vá Cavar Batatas

    1 2012 HD

    After years living in Lisbon, Castro's family makes the decision to move to the countryside.

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  • 2016
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    Game of Checkers

    Game of Checkers

    1 2016 HD

    Following Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. The night...

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  • 1992
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    The Last Dive

    The Last Dive

    6.7 1992 HD

    Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing,...

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  • 2005
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    The Fatalist

    The Fatalist

    3.6 2005 HD

    The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...

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  • 1990
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    Crime at the Little Star Pension

    Crime at the Little Star Pension

    1 1990 HD

    Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be...

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  • 2017
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    Fátima

    Fátima

    6 2017 HD

    The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

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  • 2017
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    Colo

    Colo

    6.6 2017 HD

    Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to...

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  • 2002
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    A Falha

    A Falha

    7.5 2002 HD

    Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...

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  • 2004
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    In the Darkness of the Night

    In the Darkness of the Night

    5.9 2004 HD

    A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

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  • 2010
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    Disquiet

    Disquiet

    5.7 2010 HD

    Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes...

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  • 1998
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    Anxiety

    Anxiety

    6.4 1998 HD

    An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

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  • 1988
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    Hard Times

    Hard Times

    6.2 1988 HD

    A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

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  • 1999
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    Longe da Vista

    Longe da Vista

    5 1999 HD

    In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic...

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  • 2000
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    451 Forte

    451 Forte

    1 2000 HD

    Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda,...

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  • 2018
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    Carga

    Carga

    6.3 2018 HD

    A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance:...

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  • 2003
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    Dead Man's Memories

    Dead Man's Memories

    4.4 2003 HD

    A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path...

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  • 1988
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    Three Less Me

    Three Less Me

    1 1988 HD

    A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

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  • 1994
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    Three Palm Trees

    Three Palm Trees

    5.5 1994 HD

    Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...

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  • 2000
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    Um Passeio no Parque

    Um Passeio no Parque

    1 2000 HD

    Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife...

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  • 2006
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    Mãe Há Só Uma

    Mãe Há Só Uma

    1 2006 HD

    A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she...

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  • 1983
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    Circle of Passions

    Circle of Passions

    3 1983 HD

    An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his...

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  • 1985
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    Ninguém Duas Vezes

    Ninguém Duas Vezes

    5 1985 HD

    Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

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  • 1998
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    Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

    Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

    6.5 1998 HD

    Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

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  • 2018
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    Acts of Cinema

    Acts of Cinema

    1 2018 HD

    Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors,...

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  • 1997
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    Minus 9

    Minus 9

    1 1997 HD

    This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes...

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  • 2006
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    Flesh of My Flesh

    Flesh of My Flesh

    1 2006 HD

    A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.

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  • 1991
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    Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano

    Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano

    1 1991 HD

    New years special aired on RTP on 1991

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  • 2020
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    Profjam #000000

    Profjam #000000

    1 2020 HD

    ProfJam wanted to show the contrast for his debut album and do it using the big screen

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  • 2024
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    After Dance – A Concert Film

    After Dance – A Concert Film

    1 2024 HD

    A large, time-worn house sits on a towering, untouchable pedestal. Ressaca Bailada – Filme Concerto follows individuals as they navigate their...

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  • 2006
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    Mãe Há Só Uma

    Mãe Há Só Uma

    1 2006 HD

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  • 2002
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    A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa

    A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa

    7 2002 HD

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  • 2006
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    Tempo de Viver

    Tempo de Viver

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1992
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    Parabéns

    Parabéns

    1 1992 HD

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  • 2009
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    Alta Definição

    Alta Definição

    10 2009 HD

    In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

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  • 2007
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    Conta-me Como Foi

    Conta-me Como Foi

    8 2007 HD

    Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e...

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  • 2015
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    Coração d’Ouro

    Coração d’Ouro

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2018
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    Alma e Coração

    Alma e Coração

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2013
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    Sol de Inverno

    Sol de Inverno

    5 2013 HD

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  • 2011
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    A Família Mata

    A Família Mata

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2022
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    For You

    For You

    5 2022 HD

    In the parish of Rio Meandro, two villages are at war over the construction of a dam that will submerge one of them: either Aldeia Velha or Aldeia...

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  • 2017
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    Caminhos da Alma - Fátima

    Caminhos da Alma - Fátima

    1 2017 HD

    The pilgramage of 11 women in 9 days and 400km to Fátima.

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  • 2017
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    Paixão

    Paixão

    4.4 2017 HD

    With Algarve and South Africa as main stages, Paixão tells the story of a love that was destroyed by a lie. This is the story of a man...

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  • 2011
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    Maternidade

    Maternidade

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2018
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    Sara

    Sara

    8.7 2018 HD

    Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in...

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  • 2024
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    Lady of the sea

    Lady of the sea

    6.65 2024 HD

    On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds...

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  • 1991
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    Alentejo Sem Lei

    Alentejo Sem Lei

    4 1991 HD

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  • 2013
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    Odisseia

    Odisseia

    8.7 2013 HD

    A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington...

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  • 2023
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    Marco Paulo

    Marco Paulo

    8.3 2023 HD

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  • 2023
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    Timeless Love

    Timeless Love

    6.7 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Sai da Minha Vida

    Sai da Minha Vida

    1 1996 HD

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  • 2022
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    O Pai Tirano

    O Pai Tirano

    6 2022 HD

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  • 1995
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    Os Malucos do Riso

    Os Malucos do Riso

    1 1995 HD

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  • 2003
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    Santos da Casa

    Santos da Casa

    7 2003 HD

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  • 2024
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    Hotel do Rio

    Hotel do Rio

    8 2024 HD

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  • 1998
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    Médico de Família

    Médico de Família

    7.5 1998 HD

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