
Acting
Diana Costa e Silva
Born 1979-10-25 · Lisbon, Portugal
Acting credits
6.1The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Mad Love
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Couto Mixto
2024
NREmilia, a young woman part of a generation struggling with the consequences of a country's economic crises, desperately tries to hold on to her last hope for a prosperous future.
Emília
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NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hora Sagrada
2007
NRDavid envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only meet through the Polaroid pictures he takes of them.
Forbidden Images
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O Dia do Regicídio
2008
5.4Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Max Monteiro, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and Jean de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
The Hips of J.W.
1997
NRA Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.
O Dez
2010
6.7Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.
4 Hearts
2009
5.0Adaptation 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 island of Madeira.
True and Tender is the North
2008
9.0A 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
10.0Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.
Second Hand
2013
5.9Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
Five Days, Five Nights
1996
10.0It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots across the ocean, discovering an intricate love story. Lucas's father, Olavo, was the son of a very wealthy Portuguese industrialist, Joaquim, who was disinherited when he married Alice, Lucas's mother, a very poor woman who lived in a rooming house in the city of Porto, Portugal. With the Second World War looming, they all left for Brazil, settling in Minas Gerais. While investigating his distant past, Lucas makes discoveries about possible criminal acts committed by his own father, Olavo. Lucas is helped by Teresa, a young Portuguese woman who works as a restorer of old Portuguese churches in the interior of Portugal. Lucas, assisted by Teresa, seeks to reconstruct the stories of his mother Alice, and ends up falling in love with Teresa.
Histórias de Alice
2016
9.0David is born in Portugal but lived his whole life in the US. At 24 is he accused of a crime he didn't commit and is deported to his native country.
Duplo Exilio
2001
3.3Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
From Now On
2008
5.5On 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
When the sky began to turn red, the world changed. Then, fear made people violent and chaos was widespread. Dr. Vega, a young astronomer, is alone and isolated in an ancient palace. Right before she discovers that she is carrying one of the greatest secrets of Man's History, she also discovers that someone knows more than she does.
The End of Man
2012