Acting
Sara Barros Leitão
Born
1990-07-31 (36)
Place of birth
Porto, Portugal
Known for
Acting
Credits
34 titles
Known for
6.3Across 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
6.0Laços de Sangue is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.
Blood Ties
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Will for Revenge
2015
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Jardins Proibidos
2014
2.7No synopsis available yet.
Olhos nos Olhos
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Doida por Ti
2012
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
6.0Miranda 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
8.0Lisbon, 2027. Marta and Miguel are both researchers that are part of a scientific group and a couple in their private lives. Their relationship will be put to the test on one decisive night when the parameters that Marta is analyzing point to the very high probability of a major earthquake hitting Lisbon. The group splits, debating whether or not to warn the population of the possible impending tragedy.
The Best of All Worlds
2024
NRAlice and Diana's world is perfect within four walls. The problem is when reality forces them to face the problems of their relationship and sexuality.
Das Duas Uma
2022
2010s · 13 titles
5.1In this short story, João and Pedro live in this garden. What João wants the most is for Pedro to be happy and the only way he found to make that happen is to support him in his escape with Sara. On the other hand, Pedro learned how to love João and does not want to leave the garden. But one of them ate the forbidden fruit.
Eden
2014
5.5A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship.
Fatal Sin
2013
5.8Tiago doesn't understand the internet. Rita doesn't understand people. Tiago is a 5th and 6th grade History teacher who, against the will of his mother and his boss, lives without a smartphone or computer, completely offline. Rita is his antisocial neighbour, who loves videogames and procrastinating. Sailorspoon and Davintji are funny and wise youtubers... Whilst Sailorspoon dreams of a trip to Japan, Davintji suffers with the love life of his brother Marco. Diana searches for love with an app... She and Marco form a romantic pair that meets over the net. All of them trying to discover who they are, and how to survive in a world that is increasingly digital. Dick pics, hashtags, youtubers, memes. Illuminati confirmed!
Offline
2016
NRIco is a post-colonial hero on a strange and familiar city, going from victim to predator.
Ico
2017
NRMarta comes home after her mother's funeral. Having devoted the last years of his life to take care of her, it's time to learn how to live with that void. For the first time she will think about the future, but an unexpected visit will force her to travel to the hardest places in her memory.
Marta
2015
NRCreated in parallel to the show Teoria das 3 Idades by Sara Barros Leitão, Caos Danado accompanies this creative process as its departure point. Based on the archive of the Teatro Experimental do Porto, it challenges our capacity to evoke and preserve memories through the various types of perception we possess. Caos Danado is a narrative deconstructed between fiction and documentary (lie vs. truth), because the one is not more important than the other.
Caos Danado
2018
6.3This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
The Consul Of Bordeaux
2012
6.8Jô 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
4.2The lives of two women intersect.
Ice
2016
NRAfter a painful breakup, Pedro (Salvador Nery) grapples with existential emptiness and embarks on a surreal quest to locate the film’s screenwriter. He hopes that by confronting the author, he can change the outcome of his argument and repair the moment that derailed his life.
Seeking the Perfect Line
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Manifesto dos Danados
2012
NRSmall sister's obsession for her elder sister turns into madness and ends up with a tragedy.
Sara
2012
NRThree girlfriends, a summer night and a green eyed man. A true urban story.
Kuru
2016
Series credits
6.3Across 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
6.0Laços de Sangue is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.
Blood Ties
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Will for Revenge
2015
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Jardins Proibidos
2014
2.7No synopsis available yet.
Olhos nos Olhos
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Doida por Ti
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sentimentos
2009
7.0Diogo 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
NR“I Love It” tells the story of Beatriz, a free-spirited young woman with a passion for music. She lives far from her family, as the current economic crisis has forced her parents to emigrate to Angola. She shares a home with Leila, a young Angolan woman who has recently arrived in Portugal to study Fashion Design and dreams of becoming a top stylist. Although their friendship is still new, it has grown stronger through their separation from their families and a shared bond that brings them together.
I Love It
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mundo ao Contrário
2013
8.0A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.
3 Women
2018
6.2After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk.
Natural Law
2022
NRUrban series that takes place between the Beach of the Shells and the new School of Arts that is being born in the palace of the Barahona family. Against the background of the mythical line of Cascais, this series has a plot full of strong emotions. Each episode combines different lines of stories that cross each other: the freshness of the summer novels, the rebelliousness of youth, the adventures and peripécias lived on the beach, the fight for fame, the generational conflicts and the reunions that can happen... when least expected.
Água de Mar
2014
6.2A warrior from the XVI century, the first female university student from the XIX century and a nurse from the XXI century, join a secret agency to prevent people to change the Portuguese history by using time-traveling doors
Ministério do Tempo
2017
NRA Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.
Near Distance
2016
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Dentro
2016
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Espírito Indomável
2010
7.0The Portuguese Carnation Revolution of April 25th seen by a women perspective.
Mulheres de Abril
2014