António Silva

Acting

António Silva

Born — Died

1886-08-15 — 1971-03-03

Place of birth

Lisboa, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

António Maria da Silva (15 August 1886 – 3 March 1971) was a Portuguese actor. He appeared in more than 40 productions over his more than 50 years in acting.

Known for

The Girl Next Door poster
8.0

The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher.

The Girl Next Door

1945

Camões poster
6.8

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

Camões

1946

Fado, a Singer's Story poster
7.8

Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.

Fado, a Singer's Story

1947

António Silva - Um Artista Popular poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

António Silva - Um Artista Popular

1998

João Ratão poster
7.1

João Ratão is one of many young Portuguese soldiers fighting in Flandres, France, during World War I. Back home, he now needs to fight for the love Vitória, to whom he sent love letters from France... written by a fellow soldier. João Ratão is illiterate.

João Ratão

1940

The Radio Star poster
7.9

Geninha and Óscar are a couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them.

The Radio Star

1944

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 7 titles

1940s · 13 titles

The Girl Next Door poster
8.0

The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher.

The Girl Next Door

1945

Camões poster
6.8

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

Camões

1946

Fado, a Singer's Story poster
7.8

Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.

Fado, a Singer's Story

1947

João Ratão poster
7.1

João Ratão is one of many young Portuguese soldiers fighting in Flandres, France, during World War I. Back home, he now needs to fight for the love Vitória, to whom he sent love letters from France... written by a fellow soldier. João Ratão is illiterate.

João Ratão

1940

The Radio Star poster
7.9

Geninha and Óscar are a couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them.

The Radio Star

1944

The Lion from Estrela poster
7.4

Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.

The Lion from Estrela

1947

The Costa from Castelo poster
7.3

André (Curado Ribeiro), is a son of a wealthy family who meets a girl called Luisinha (Milu). Luisinha lives at a small pension house with Rita (Maria Olguim) and Januário (João Silva), who are as parents to her, and with mr. Simplício Costa (António Silva), better known as Costa do Castelo, a lazy but highly talented guitar player who together with (Hermínia Silva) reaches success.

The Costa from Castelo

1943

The Ground Floor Neighbors poster
10.0

A building in Lisbon where three families with very different social backgrounds live. An arrogant aristocratic family on the first floor, a modest bourgeois family on the ground floor, and a working-class family in the basement.

The Ground Floor Neighbors

1947

The Spell of the Empire poster
7.5

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, he will find true love, and also learn to value his country and its colonial grandeur.

The Spell of the Empire

1940

The Courtyard of the Ballads poster
8.7

A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.

The Courtyard of the Ballads

1942

Mountain Wolves poster
8.0

The film deals with the story of smugglers operating in the border areas of northern Portugal. A group of smugglers who escaped police installed in a village to have a quiet life, but facing hard times have to go back to smuggling.

Mountain Wolves

1942

Três Espelhos poster
7.4

When a businessman's car crashes and burns, inspector Moisés of the criminal brigade is given the case, as the body has been stabbed. He'll try to reconstruct the financier's personality by the mirrored impressions on those who knew him.

Três Espelhos

1947

Doomed Love poster
6.3

The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families.

Doomed Love

1943

1930s · 7 titles

Bocage poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bocage

1936

Maria Papoila poster
6.4

Maria Papoila, a shepherdess from Beira working in Lisbon, one day meets a rich young man, Eduardo, whom she assumes to be of her own social standing due to his uniform as a private soldier. Some time later, arrested as a suspect in a major robbery, Eduardo is abandoned by his selfish fiancée, Margarida, and it is the "soup girl" who, although despised in her dream and sacrificing her honor, appears in court as Eduardo's lover, and he is acquitted. Without asking for anything in return, Maria Papoila returns to her village.

Maria Papoila

1937

A Song of Lisbon poster
8.5

Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.

A Song of Lisbon

1933

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor poster
7.8

Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Júlio Dantas. Trying to highlight the romantic tone, the ruralism of the picturesque situations and environments, the spirit and characters of 1863 are revived: the characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinguished morals of Pedro and Daniel, the bonhomie of João Semana, finally the disagreements , common sense, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of Minho.

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor

1935

Gado Bravo poster
8.5

A love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca.

Gado Bravo

1934

As très graças poster
8.0

Bocage was a former naval officer, a cultured gentleman, a passionate man, and a poet. He lived in the second half of the 18th century and had a series of relationships, writing love poems to his Three Graces: his colleague Márcia, a wild girl, and her two sisters.

As très graças

1936

Varanda dos Rouxinóis poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Varanda dos Rouxinóis

1939