Sérgio Godinho

Acting

Sérgio Godinho

Born 1945-08-31 · Porto, Portugal

Sérgio Godinho is a Portuguese composer, poet and singer. He is one of the most influential popular musicians in Portugal. He's often considered the greatest name of Portuguese popular music, after Zeca Afonso, even if their music styles are quite different, and Sérgio Godinho songs are often more of an urban style.

Acting credits

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor poster
6.5

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

2016

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir poster
6.3

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.

The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir

1976

The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mister Jay poster
8.3

In a city where nature has been forbidden, a small crime by a simple man triggers a chain of unexpected consequences.

The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mister Jay

2019

Once Upon a Time in the Apocalypse poster
NR

In the fallout of nuclear war, totalitarian regimes reshape world order. Ernesto is hiding a secret, and when a government inspector shows up at his doorstep, a cat-and-mouse game unfolds — one that can only end in tragedy.

Once Upon a Time in the Apocalypse

2026

Street of No Return poster
5.2

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.

Street of No Return

1989

La Guérilléra poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Guérilléra

1982

The Assignment poster
6.8

A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.

The Assignment

1977

The Home Fairy poster
6.4

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence and youth will clash with the authoritarianism and inhumanity of the director. For the elderly who live in the nursing home, Vera is a breath of fresh air that little by little will change their lives, becoming the true home fairy…

The Home Fairy

2022

L'Herbe rouge poster
7.0

Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently with the aim of curing his present misfortune...

L'Herbe rouge

1985

Requiem poster
7.8

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories.

Requiem

1998

The Mystery of Sintra poster
5.4

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

The Mystery of Sintra

2007

The Jew poster
5.7

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.

The Jew

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Silence 4 - Songbook Live

2014

Un ballon dans la tête poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un ballon dans la tête

1992

President's Target poster
5.7

The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.

President's Target

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Portugal Séc. XXI: As Cores Do Som

2003

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