Afonso Pimentel

Acting

Afonso Pimentel

Born

1982-08-04 (44)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Alta Definição poster
7.2

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

Alta Definição

2009

Heart & Soul poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Heart & Soul

2018

Os Malucos do Riso poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Malucos do Riso

1995

Vitória poster
10.0

Vitória returns determined to recover her children, Afonso, Matilde, and Francisco, after serving an unjust prison sentence. Her father-in-law, Manuel Mendonça, a powerful and manipulative man, has managed to separate his grandchildren from their mother and will do everything to keep her away from her family. With the help of Jorge, a prestigious lawyer and her first love, Vitória will face the Mendonça empire and fight for what she loves most: her children. Vitória is a story of resilience, courage, and the purest of feelings: a mother's love.

Vitória

2025

Lady of Tides poster
6.7

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 refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

Lady of Tides

2024

Nazaré poster
7.5

“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope.

Nazaré

2019

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

Artificial Justice poster
6.1

In the near future, the Government aims to replace judges with Artificial Intelligence software, pledging to effectively automate and depoliticize the justice system. Carmen Costa, a distinguished judge, has been invited to assess this new procedure. However, when the software’s creator is found dead, she realizes her life is in danger and that she will have to fight the powerful interests that are at play in the highest echelons of the State.

Artificial Justice

2024

Memories of Prison poster
NR

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860, he in October of the same year, after an adventurous escape from justice through the lands of the North.

Memories of Prison

2026

O Pio dos Mochos poster
6.0

Miranda do Corvo, 1933. Tomé, a young worker haunted by guilt over his betrayal, is chosen by his colleagues for an important mission in the union's struggle against the Estado Novo. Faced with this moral challenge, he confronts not only the real dangers of police repression, but also his own demons.

O Pio dos Mochos

2023

Your Face Will be the Last poster
6.8

A child prodigy, a talented pianist, who fears the gift he was born with. A father persecuted and tormented by the infernal memory of the colonial war and a luminous mother afflicted by an incurable disease. A grandfather and grandmother in exile on a small village and an anti-Salazarist, an unrepentant traveller who settles in Buenos Aires. A music teacher who teaches his students that being a musician is not a fate of guaranteed happiness and that there is a lot of pain in the human heart. The story of a Portuguese family that lived through dictatorship, colonial war and democratic revolution - the improbable and surprising threads with which individual destinies weave the collective destiny.

Your Face Will be the Last

2024

Reverso poster
NR

The problematic relationship between twins John and Peter.

Reverso

2022

2010s · 9 titles

Lines of Wellington poster
5.7

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Lines of Wellington

2012

Adrift poster
4.2

When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.

Adrift

2017

Cats Don't Have Vertigo poster
6.8

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.

Cats Don't Have Vertigo

2014

Ice poster
4.2

The lives of two women intersect.

Ice

2016

Mysteries of Lisbon poster
7.2

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010

Uma Vida À Espera poster
4.5

The story of a man. Maybe two. A father who leaves home taking nothing with him but the mailbox and a suitcase. He sits on a garden bench, on the street, waiting for a son's answer. Every day he sends him a letter and every day he hopes to get a letter back. Every day he combs his hair, puts a tie on, and shaves to be ready to receive that letter by the time the postman passes by.

Uma Vida À Espera

2017

Bairro poster
4.5

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.

Bairro

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cátia e Ivan

2013

No artwork available
5.5

Cruz and Queimado are two criminals who have to dispose of a dead body. An innocent fisherman will alter their plans and their lives permanently.

A Cova

2011

2000s · 8 titles

A Bomba poster
5.8

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

A Bomba

2002

Blood Curse poster
5.9

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.

Blood Curse

2006

O Dia do Regicídio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Dia do Regicídio

2008

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

20.13: Purgatory poster
4.8

Mozambique, 1969. What was meant to be a peaceful Christmas Eve ends up badly as a group of soldiers brings home a prisoner that will be murdered. Simultaneously, the Capitan's wife arrives in surprise, bringing along a Priest, who is supposed to celebrate the mass.

20.13: Purgatory

2006

Kiss Me poster
5.7

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.

Kiss Me

2004

A Falha poster
7.2

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.

A Falha

2002

Amo-te Teresa poster
6.9

Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love life, she decides to abandon Lisbon and returns to her native land. Immediately, a strong attraction forms between Teresa and Miguel, a friend of her oldest son.

Amo-te Teresa

2000

Series credits

Alta Definição poster
7.2

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

Alta Definição

2009

Heart & Soul poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Heart & Soul

2018

Os Malucos do Riso poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Malucos do Riso

1995

Vitória poster
10.0

Vitória returns determined to recover her children, Afonso, Matilde, and Francisco, after serving an unjust prison sentence. Her father-in-law, Manuel Mendonça, a powerful and manipulative man, has managed to separate his grandchildren from their mother and will do everything to keep her away from her family. With the help of Jorge, a prestigious lawyer and her first love, Vitória will face the Mendonça empire and fight for what she loves most: her children. Vitória is a story of resilience, courage, and the purest of feelings: a mother's love.

Vitória

2025

Lady of Tides poster
6.7

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 refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

Lady of Tides

2024

Nazaré poster
7.5

“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope.

Nazaré

2019

Saber Amar poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Saber Amar

2003

Mulheres poster
6.2

The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.

Mulheres

2014

Resistirei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Resistirei

2007

Turn of the Tide poster
7.0

When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to make money and fulfill impossible dreams.

Turn of the Tide

2023

Doida por Ti poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doida por Ti

2012

A Minha Família é Uma Animação poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Minha Família é Uma Animação

2001

Matilha poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Matilha

2024

Mysteries of Lisbon poster
6.5

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)

Mysteries of Lisbon

2011

Glória poster
6.6

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.

Glória

2021

High Note poster
2.0

The story of stories... Nazaré is happy in her life with Duarte and their children, Alice and little Zé. But her world is suddenly turned upside down when police finds drugs inside the fish she’s transporting and counterfeit money in the cold storage at Geliré. Behind all this is Verónica, who was rescued at sea and is back to settle the score. Nazaré is certain that it was her husband’s aunt that framed her, who she sees in a car while she's being arrested. With Toni's help, Nazaré then turns into a fugitive. By disguising herself and taking on a false identity, Nazaré is now Carla Isabel, at least until she manages to prove her innocence. While on the run, Nazaré gets in the High Note tour bus and is forced to leave Duarte and her children behind. As she manages to gain the trust of Mel, Leandro and Sandra, besides the label’s bus driver, she also lends a hand as a bodyguard for Romeu’s daughter.

High Note

2022

Red Light poster
3.0

Red Light is a TV series created by Patrícia Muller & directed by Marco Leão & André Santos about the true story of a group of women from Bragança that in 2003 rebelled against the presence of Brazilian immigrant prostitutes that were having a social and moral impact on the life of this small town.

Red Light

2019

South poster
7.0

The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal.

South

2019

Millennial Mal poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Millennial Mal

2026

Segredo de Justiça poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Segredo de Justiça

2001

País Irmão poster
7.5

Reality is much stranger than fiction. There is a scandal that could be revealed and the Portuguese Government is nervous. The Minister of Culture and her team have a crazy idea that, for that reason, can work: to produce, together with Brazil, the biggest and most spectacular telenovela of all time: "Corte Tropical".

País Irmão

2017

O Dia do Regicídio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Dia do Regicídio

2008

Downfall poster
2.0

After an anonymous report, the former minister Álvaro Vieira Branco, under investigation for several crimes such as lobbying and misuse of powers, stays in home detention with an electronic bracelet. The report allows the criminal inspector, Gonçalo Schmidt, to finally investigate what they have suspected for so long: Álvaro Vieira Branco does not own personal nor familiar income to justify his high-quality level. Imprisoned in his luxurious mansion, Vieira Branco has to adapt his strategies to keep satisfying (mostly) the financial needs of those who surround him, while he tries to: get rid of the case, find out who is the whistle-blower and maintain his influence on the public sphere. To solve all of these, Vieira Branco counts on with his long-standing lawyer, David Rebelo Morais, current politicians and his trustworthy foreman, Zé Mário.

Downfall

2021

Sara poster
8.2

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 cinema. The solution? Soap operas.

Sara

2018

O Bairro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Bairro

2014

A Ferreirinha poster
6.7

The life of Antonia Ferreira (popularly known as "Ferreirinha") from her widowhood to her death, including her role in the production and marketing of the Port wine.At the same time it's told the love story between Camilo Castelo Branco and Ana Plácido.

A Ferreirinha

2004

Espírito Indomável poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Espírito Indomável

2010

Jogo Duplo poster
6.2

Between the mysterious Orient, the paradisiacal peninsula of Troia, the urbanity of Setúbal and the placid splendor of Alcácer do Sal, "Jogo Duplo" is a telenovela that will confront dysfunctional families, impossible loves and cultural differences, reflecting on the human condition in all its opposites.

Jogo Duplo

2017

Behind the camera