Acting
Manuela Cassola
Born — Died
1925-06-19 — 2018-12-26
Place of birth
Portalegre, Portugal
Known for
Acting
Credits
31 titles
Known for
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Water Mirror
2017
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Os Malucos do Riso
1995
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Saber Amar
2003
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Filha do Mar
2001
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
O Olhar da Serpente
2002
Film credits
1990s · 9 titles
6.7Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Pereira Declares
1995
4.7A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.
The Curse of Marialva
1991
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Paraíso Perdido
1995
10.0Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Sur un air de mambo
1996
6.0At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Françoise had acquired through artfulness what Afonso had lost in anger in the kingdom. She had him imprisoned ( November 1667 ) and quickly obtained a papal bull from Rome to confirm her virginity and bless her marriage to her brother-in-law Pedro. Portugal's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.
The King's Trial
1990
Maria Gouveia is a character with a secret past, which she intends to hide at all costs. In her eagerness to hide that past, she commits a homicide, witnessed by a man whose existence she is unaware of. That man is the lawyer Óscar Summavielle, who manages to become her defense lawyer and, constructing an alibi for her, proves in court that she is innocent, although he knows she is guilty. Marta and Óscar are led into a game of passion that will take them beyond all conventions...
Vertigem
1992
6.6Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.
Step by Step
1990
5.4The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
Haircut
1996
1980s · 1 titles
Series credits
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Water Mirror
2017
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Os Malucos do Riso
1995
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Saber Amar
2003
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Filha do Mar
2001
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
O Olhar da Serpente
2002
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Jardins Proibidos
2000
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Super Pai
2000
9.0No synopsis available yet.
A Banqueira do Povo
1993
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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Todo o Tempo do Mundo
1999
NRShowing life as it is... Alice is a surgeon who is forced to work with her ex-husband David, an anaesthesiologist who will incorporate the Surgical Team at the Santa Catarina Hospital in Lisbon. Vicente also works at this hospital in internal medicine. He’s married to Simone, who’s a vet at the Zoo. This couple will go through a messy divorce in which Vicente is in danger of losing custody of his children due to his affair with his colleague Alice. This series that follows the everyday lives of doctors fighting to save people's lives at a city hospital, but also the challenges and adventures of a team of veterinarians, biologists and zoo keepers who are committed to preserving their wildlife at the Zoo.
Lifeline
2013
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Diário de Maria
1998
10.0A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances.
Keeping Up Appearances
2000
10.0After the passing of his wife, Camilo, an elderly man, goes to his son and daughter-in-law's house and starts living with them, to their great misfortune.
Camilo, O Pendura
2002
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Segredo de Justiça
2001
NRDespite the hardship, there are those who fight and overcome... Marta is a single mother and a humble woman who’s doing her best to offer her two daughters, Susana e Beatriz, a good life. But when she finds out that her younger daughter has a rare and serious condition, everything changes in this family’s life. Susana decides to seek out Rodrigo, the child´s father and a wealthy man who can afford to pay the much needed surgery abroad. Even though he didn't even know he had a daughter, Rodrigo accepts to pay for the surgery on the condition that he’s granted custody. Marta is then faced with the greatest dilemma in her life: in order to save his daughter, she’ll have to give her up. Rodrigo will end up using Beatriz in an elaborate ploy to get closer to Marta. However, his cousin Gabriel’s return to Portugal will make things difficult for him, as Gabriel will fall in love with Marta, thus turning into Rodrigo's rival.
Day By Day
2013
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Sai da Minha Vida
1996
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O Cacilheiro do Amor
1990
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Cobardias
1988