Philippe Leroux

Acting

Philippe Leroux

Born

1971-08-04 (55)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 11 titles

Stalin's Couch poster
4.0

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

Stalin's Couch

2016

Obsessive Rhythms poster
5.3

On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.

Obsessive Rhythms

2014

Vidas a Crédito poster
NR

Sofia is a big spender so she frequently abuses of the credit card. When her husband is fired, she is forced to change her life.

Vidas a Crédito

2012

Portugal Não Está à Venda poster
2.5

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale.

Portugal Não Está à Venda

2019

Inside Out poster
4.6

João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.

Inside Out

2014

Gigola poster
3.4

George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.

Gigola

2010

Shoot Me poster
3.0

The bride to be is about to choose her wedding dress... a mother torn between future stability and a past she is unable to let go. What happens when the phone rings? Will, elegance and grace burned by consuming passion. Red lipstick; a forbidden encounter; sex; photographs and a dark room... The divorce papers signed. Silence, sorrow and regret... love is not easily discarded... Will the bride ever become the wife?

Shoot Me

2010

No artwork available
5.0

After being sentenced to community service, Sara begins working with Artur, a lonely septuagenarian in a wheelchair.

Orphan of the Past

2012

Quero-te Tanto! poster
5.2

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.

Quero-te Tanto!

2019

Um Pequeno Desvio poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Um Pequeno Desvio

2012

Catarina and the others poster
4.7

Outside, the first sun rays break the dawn. Sixteen years old Catarina can't fall asleep. Inconsequently, in the big city adults are moved by desire... Catarina found she is HIV positive. She wants to drag everyone else along.

Catarina and the others

2011

2000s · 11 titles

Mausolée pour une garce poster
4.0

Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to get what she wants, she persuades her lover to murder her ex-husband for the life insurance money that will otherwise go to her daughter when she reaches her upcoming 18th birthday. The murder attempt goes awry, and not only does the ex survive, but a witness calls on his underworld connections to avenge the attack on his friend. From here, the plot and counter-plot become ever more complicated, with blackmail, kidnap, murder, seduction and suicide on the agenda, and a surprise twist in the ending.

Mausolée pour une garce

2001

Julie, chevalier de Maupin poster
4.5

Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.

Julie, chevalier de Maupin

2005

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere poster
7.1

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

2003

Amália poster
6.0

You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth. The story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.

Amália

2008

Aurélien poster
7.5

France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.

Aurélien

2003

Il court, il court, le furet... poster
7.5

Married for three years, Pierre and Marion are now divorcing. During umpteenth mediation with the judge, both explained how their love for each other faded away little by little.

Il court, il court, le furet...

2003

Teorema de Pitágoras poster
7.0

João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he meets Ana. That girl will change his life and the way he sees the relationships between men and women, but not before a "little problem" called Sofia - a TV star in the movie - come into their relationship

Teorema de Pitágoras

2001

Volpone poster
6.6

A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".

Volpone

2004

Crónica Feminina poster
NR

Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things

Crónica Feminina

2002

A Noiva poster
9.0

A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..

A Noiva

2000

Mustang poster
6.7

Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...

Mustang

2000

Series credits

Rebelde Way poster
6.3

Four seemingly unrelated stories come together in a setting ripe for adventure, romance, heartbreak, and mystery: Prestige International School, a prestigious boarding school where students receive an excellent education, preparing them for a bright future. The school also offers a scholarship programme for young people from low-income backgrounds. However, few students ever manage to graduate from the school.

Rebelde Way

2008

Winter Sun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Winter Sun

2013

Mar de Paixão poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mar de Paixão

2010

Welcome to Beirais poster
7.0

Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.

Welcome to Beirais

2013

Amanhecer poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Amanhecer

2002

Super Pai poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Super Pai

2000

Maternidade poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maternidade

2011

Camilo Em Sarilhos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Camilo Em Sarilhos

2005

Maison close poster
6.5

Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.

Maison close

2010

Uma Casa em Fanicos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Uma Casa em Fanicos

1998

A Criação poster
7.0

A fable with people and furrys about the creative industry and the commercial arts.

A Criação

2017

Um Lugar para Viver poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Um Lugar para Viver

2009

Feitiço de Amor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Feitiço de Amor

2008