Teresa Tavares

Acting

Teresa Tavares

Born

1982-12-29 (43)

Place of birth

Azambuja, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

In Flames poster
NR

João is a quiet 13-year-old boy who feels increasingly disconnected from the world around him. His mother, absorbed by work, barely notices the changes taking place in him until his struggles come to light at school and she is forced to step in. Pushed into therapy, João meets Mariana, a woman marked by wounds of her own. Between them, a fragile bond begins to form, unfolding through moments that hover on the edge of reality.

In Flames

2026

LOBO poster
NR

LOBO is about a timid but enraged teenage boy who escapes into the wild with his fearless older brother, after making the ultimate sacrifice for his family. It encapsulates the lengths one might go to protect one of their own. As they venture deeper into the wild, the pair are forced to face their turbulent past and re-discover what it means to be brothers. Things start to fall apart when reality rips the veil of delusion from their eyes.

LOBO

2023

Situações Delicadas poster
NR

Olívia, Marta, and Carlota are three friends leading normal lives, until a moment of panic changes everything: an unexpected confrontation with Jaime, Olívia’s ex-boyfriend, ends tragically when he dies accidentally. Consumed by the fear of losing their freedom during the best years of their lives, the three make a radical decision - to hide the body and conceal what happened that night.

Situações Delicadas

2025

The Christmas Eve poster
7.0

A flight to Lisboa is diverted to Beja due to a snowstorm, forcing several passengers to spend Christmas Eve away from their families.

The Christmas Eve

2021

Revolta poster
6.2

As a result of the pandemic and the economic crisis, there is a widespread revolt in the main cities of the country and Paulo and Cristina, an upper-middle-class couple with a newborn child, only do not join the popular indignation because they agreed, that same night, to organize a dinner for two friends: João, going through a divorce process that plunges him into a strange depression; and Raquel, Cristina's childhood friend who has spent the last few years crossing the planet on a journey of self-discovery. It's a night where, while the world changes outside, people reveal themselves inside, in this apartment where the confrontation between the real and the virtual reveals the most terrible truths.

Revolta

2022

Quando o Diabo Reza poster
5.5

On one side, a bunch of crooks. On the other, two sisters. Nothing unites them except an idea: to relieve the bank account of an old man, who happens to be the sisters' father. The crooks devise a plan to gain his trust and swindle him. The sisters make plans for the last years of their father's life without neglecting the small detail of the inheritance. Each one in their own way, they all dream of the possibilities that the old man's money could bring them. But this one will not be easy prey.

Quando o Diabo Reza

2022

Largo do Caldas poster
7.0

Love suddenly appears, anywhere, age or marital status. A socially criticized condition, one of the lovers, but that happens in so many lives, so many times without intention. Living a relationship of affection for 10, 20 or 30 years, and then looking back is a proposal from Largo do Caldas. A phone that could be a bit of the history of our lives.

Largo do Caldas

2020

The Earth of No Return poster
NR

Somewhere in an unspecified time, Patrick Mendes presents an initiation ritual in a community at the ends of the earth.

The Earth of No Return

2020

Cândido poster
4.7

A national coach working in Lisbon during World War II also acted as a spy for the Allies, leading a risky double life

Cândido

2024

A Pianista poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

A Pianista

2025

2010s · 8 titles

Blood of My Blood poster
7.1

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

Blood of My Blood

2011

Swallows poster
NR

Sara moved to London to find a job in graphic design, but she's stuck in a restaurant kitchen. Today, after one more rejection, she starts facing her failures and the reality of her life. Torn between her Portuguese roots and the need to make her own path, Sara finds herself on the edge of change.

Swallows

2015

Fátima poster
5.9

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

Fátima

2017

Collider poster
2.9

A scientific experiment gone wrong. Mankind is on the verge of extinction and the world itself faces its darkest hour. Peter, Alisha, Carlos, Fiona, Luke and Lucia wake up in an abandoned hotel in 2018. Together they will try to uncover what triggered the beginning of the apocalypse and try to reverse the wormhole before all is lost.

Collider

2013

Muletas poster
NR

A broken family gets together for Christmas dinner when their mentally ill daughter comes home for the first time since she was institutionalized.

Muletas

2017

O Canto dos Cisnes poster
4.0

A couple takes refuge in an underground car park during an epidemic. She is desperate, having been wounded and infected and he tries to help her overcome the pain while he tries to instill some hope in a future that seems uncertain to them. She does not believe in his words, her boyfriend, only to find that the moment that he saved her from an infected person, he ended up wounded and subsequently infected. From now on generates an atmosphere of discomfort and attempt at reconciliation by both. The last proof of love. The last flame. The last chant. The Swan's Song.

O Canto dos Cisnes

2011

Síndrome de Stendhal poster
NR

A girl after being exposed to a work of art, enters a psychotic hallucination caused by Stendhal syndrome.

Síndrome de Stendhal

2010

Dark poster
9.0

An inactive swim coach follows an enigmatic blind man who will help her overcome a past that haunts her and prevents her from practicing her profession.

Dark

2018

2000s · 4 titles

Star Crossed poster
5.3

Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.

Star Crossed

2009

Bazar poster
5.8

Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop...

Bazar

2009

Twist of Fate poster
6.5

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.

Twist of Fate

2009

This Night poster
6.0

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is poised to take power in a coup d'etat. Ossorio used to call Santa Maria home, and he has returned in its darkest hour to find the woman he loves, hoping to rescue her from the violence that is lurks around the corner. As Ossorio searches for his love, he meets Victoria in a shabby hotel, who in turn introduces him to her father Barcala, who for the right price is willing to take Ossorio and another passenger away on his boat. While Ossorio is willing to pay Barcala what he wants, can he find the mysterious woman before the ship sets sail?

This Night

2009

Series credits

Strawberries with Sugar poster
6.3

Across several generations, groups of young Portuguese people navigate school life and summer holidays while dealing with friendships, first loves, rivalries, family conflicts and decisions that shape their future. Each season introduces new protagonists, schools and challenges, exploring themes related to adolescence, identity, responsibility and belonging. Sport, music, dance and other forms of expression accompany their journeys of growing up, marked by dreams, choices and ever-changing relationships.

Strawberries with Sugar

2003

Anjo Selvagem poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Anjo Selvagem

2001

Jardins Proibidos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jardins Proibidos

2014

A Madrasta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Madrasta

2026

Cacau poster
5.7

Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.

Cacau

2024

Flor do Mar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flor do Mar

2008

Jardins Proibidos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jardins Proibidos

2000

Father by Chance poster
NR

An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.

Father by Chance

2009

Valor da Vida poster
7.0

Stories that make us reflect on how we live and on what is the value we give to life. It reinforces the importance of living in the present rather than in the past, an error in which Artur and Carolina fall as soon as they wake up on the same day after years of absence.

Valor da Vida

2018

Madre Paula poster
4.5

The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.

Madre Paula

2017

A Minha Família é Uma Animação poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Minha Família é Uma Animação

2001

Maternidade poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maternidade

2011

Thieves Like Us poster
5.0

During an eclipse in 1984, an iconic gang of armed robbers is dismantled after robbery of the Banco de Portugal. Part of the group is arrested, the other is murdered. Two members are left together. This event is the result of an anonymous call. Who denounced them? “Racing Horses” tells this gang's story, emphasizing the individual motivations that led each member to choose this way of life. As a backdrop, the bathing area of a Portugal about to enter the European Economic Community.

Thieves Like Us

2023

Codename: Sintra poster
5.0

The murder of an important politician leads the police to investigate a traditional family. But they already have its share of unsolved crimes, starting with the unclear death of an English officer in the family estate, in 1870. Can all these crimes be intertwined?

Codename: Sintra

2007

Until Life Do Us Part poster
7.1

Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.

Until Life Do Us Part

2021

Dentro poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dentro

2016

Idiotas, Ponto. poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Idiotas, Ponto.

2018

The Architect poster
7.5

Portugal, 90s. The famous architect Tomé Serpa lives between professional success and a secret life of sexual relations filmed without the consent of the participants. Married and a father, he maintains a relationship with Carolina, an actress that believes to be his only lover. When she discovers the truth, she allies herself with Elsa to take revenge before the inauguration of his major project.

The Architect

2025

Caminhos da Alma - Fátima poster
NR

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

Caminhos da Alma - Fátima

2017

O Espião Que Veio do Futebol poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Espião Que Veio do Futebol

2026

InstaVerse poster
NR

Maria discovers a portal into the posts of her favorite influencer.

InstaVerse

2020

1986 poster
8.7

A dramatic comedy told from the point of view of high school students, and their parents and teachers, about one of the most striking moments of Portuguese democracy: the presidential elections and the dispute between Freitas do Amaral and Mário Soares.

1986

2018

Lisbon Noir poster
5.3

A Spanish diplomat falls from the top of the Aqueduct. The police investigate with the help of a Spanish inspector. It quickly becomes clear that there is a serial killer in Lisbon, inspired by the legendary "Aqueduct Killer" of the 19th century: Diego Alves. When the police seem close to solving the case, a twist reveals that the psychopath is still at large, this time driven by personal revenge.

Lisbon Noir

2026

To Me, Never poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Me, Never

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Câmara Café

2006