Acting
Luís Alberto
Born — Died
1934-08-22 — 2025-10-05
Place of birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 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
7.2In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Alta Definição
2009
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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Jardins Proibidos
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Louco Amor
2012
8.7Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
Tell Me How It Happened
2007
Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
NRIn a remote village in Alentejo, the train is the only connection to the world and to the politics of the capital. The news of the establishment of the Republic is spread by telegraph, but in this Alentejo village, telegraph operator Miguel Zuzarte is a staunch monarchist who hides the message he has received from everyone. For days, the people wonder about the absence of the train, and the telegraph operator does everything he can to cover up the unreported news. The train will return to the village, and the impact of the end of the monarchy is not what one might imagine.
O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
2010
6.0Joana receives her grandfather’s ashes. At home, she finds his voyage diary that belonged to her grandfather and decides to recreate that journey. On the road, she meets Rui, who helps to find the truth about her past.
Kombi
2014
NRAntonio Botto and Fernando Pessoa, two renowned Portuguese poets, exchanged fictitious love letters. Botto wrote under his own name, and Pessoa signed as 'Manuel de Andrade'. But as time passed, these letters gained a new level of importance in both poets' lives.
The Secret According to António Botto
2012
2000s · 2 titles
6.4Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.
The Night of the Sunflowers
2006
5.8A 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
1990s · 4 titles
5.1Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy.
A Hora da Liberdade
1999
6.0Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.
In the Shadow of the Vultures
1998
5.6In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
Longe da Vista
1999
NRWritten in 1962, a classic piece by Luís de Sttau Monteiro, in a production by Artur Ramos. The play takes place during the English occupation, after the French Invasions. The court is in Brazil and Portugal governs the Governor, the Cardinal and an Englishman, General Beresford. The people are unhappy and the figure of Gomes Freire de Andrade, the head of Freemasonry, appears as an alternative to the current Power. But the conductors think that Gomes Freire is a danger and decide to arrest him and judge him. His wife does everything to make him loose. Participating Estrela Novais, António Rama, Carlos Daniel, António Marques, Alexandre de Sousa, Manuel Cavaco, Vítor de Sousa, Simão Rubim, Almeno Gonçalves, Luís Alberto, José Gomes, Ana Enes, Silva Heitor, Andrade e Silva, João Didelet and Manuela Cassola.
Felizmente, Há Luar!
1993
1980s · 2 titles
7.0In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being manipulated by leftist officers to instigate genuine elections and establish a constitution for the first time in Portuguese history. Though their intent was to form a radical socialist state, circumstances prevented this, and a genuine parliamentary democracy emerged. This film explores the circumstances of a right-wing businessman during those times. The man is an old-fashioned authoritarian, whose attentiveness to the needs of his mistress, wife and son is crude where it exists at all.
The Holy Alliance
1980
8.0A middle-aged businessman, a neo-liberal, returns to Portugal to realize the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communist" revolutionaries. He fails. He even fails to meet his death, from which he mysteriously "escapes". To be continued?
Verde por Fora, Vermelho por Dentro
1980
1970s · 2 titles
8.0In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime.
A Fuga
1978
6.5During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.
The Ruins of the Interior
1977
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
7.2In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Alta Definição
2009
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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Jardins Proibidos
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Louco Amor
2012
8.7Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
Tell Me How It Happened
2007
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Filha do Mar
2001
7.0"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.
Inspetor Max
2004
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Amanhecer
2002
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Cinzas
1992
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Jardins Proibidos
2000
8.0The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.
Passerelle
1988
NRAn unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.
Father by Chance
2009
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Todo o Tempo do Mundo
1999
3.7A story with multiple plotlines, portraying the 24 hours of life in the beautiful city of Lisbon. It begins with three significant events: a wedding that is about to be cancelled, a crime, and the disappearance of a child. This plot centers on the lives of three sisters.
No One Like You
2005
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Médico de Família
1998
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ricardina e Marta
1989
NRFreedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.
Old Friends
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Baía das Mulheres
2004
8.7No synopsis available yet.
A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa
2002
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Sozinhos em Casa
1993
6.0Raul Vasconcelos and Helena Brito founded a partnership over 20 years ago and has over a hundred lawyers in its service. Raul has an ego as big as the world and it was that self-assuredness that made him notorious in the courtroom. Besides being an astute lawyer, he’s a hopeless playboy who with age developed the tendency to say and do whatever he feels like. His trouble is that he’s constantly abusing that privilege. Helena is a confident woman, albeit more discreet and concerned about the firm's public perception, constantly considering how her actions might negatively affect the partnership and its bottom line. Her personality led her to take over managing the firm, taking care of all bureaucratic affairs. Other lawyers stand out in the firm, as is the case of Pedro Pimentel, who just made senior partner. He’s impeccably put together and has a smile that wins over most women, but behind this agreeable façade of his there’s a person with a lust for power and fame.
21st Avenue
2008
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Um Sarilho Chamado Marina
1998
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Esquadra de Polícia
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Casos da Vida
2008
7.3A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.
Os Filhos do Rock
2013
8.0When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Ballet Rose
1998
NRConspiracy Theories
Teorias da Conspiração
2019
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Segredo de Justiça
2001
9.0Two twins live together and lead a slightly surreal life, annoying their snobby next-door neighbor and getting into frequent trouble with the local constable.
Camilo's Adventures
1997
7.3An entertaining and comical detective series featuring over-the-top stories, spectacular chase scenes, and hilarious villains.
Duarte e C.ª
1985
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Camilo na Prisão
1998
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Senhores Doutores
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Loja do Camilo
1999
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo
1995
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Camilo & Filho Lda.
1995
7.0Set in Alentejo in the mid-19th century, in the period following the Liberal Wars. In a sparsely populated and almost wild land, without shadow and without law, violence dictates the existence of Bando do Zarolho.
Alentejo Sem Lei
1991
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Alhos e Bugalhos
1996