António Silva

Acting

António Silva

Born 1886-08-15 · Lisboa, Portugal

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.

Acting credits

Camões poster
6.8

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

Camões

1946

House of Ghosts poster
7.0

Professor Hermes conducts a research on fear, for which he passes contract with a patient to live a supposedly empty mansion. He's counting on his assistant Chico Mota to play a phantom, but soon comes about that there are phantoms (plural) in there.

House of Ghosts

1964

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

Sonhar é Fácil poster
8.3

Mr. Silva has a dream: to live in the countryside and become a farmer. And one day it happens. He inherits a farm from an old aunt. But not everything will be roses, as Mr. Silva soon finds out...

Sonhar é Fácil

1951

João Ratão poster
7.3

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

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

Bocage poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bocage

1936

Ubirajara poster
NR

Ubirajara, chief of the Araguaias, is engaged to Jandyra. One day, however, he falls in love with Aracy, daughter of Itaquê, chief of the Tocantins and sister of Pojucã, his prisoner. He frees Pojucã so he can declare war on Itaquê and retrieve his daughter. Itaquê is wounded by other enemies and goes blind. The two tribes unite and elect Ubirajara as chief.

Ubirajara

1919

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

Perdeu-se um Marido poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Perdeu-se um Marido

1957

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

O Noivo das Caldas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Noivo das Caldas

1956

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

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 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

António Silva - Um Artista Popular poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

António Silva - Um Artista Popular

1998

Sarilho de Fraldas poster
8.5

During a tour of the province, someone mistakenly leaves a baby in a singer's car without him noticing. António decides to take the child in, with Madalena, a fellow artist. But the presumed mother, claiming it was a mistake, enlists the help of her brother, a police officer, which leads to a chase to Porto.

Sarilho de Fraldas

1967

The Little Bird of Ribeira poster
6.3

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.

The Little Bird of Ribeira

1960

Varanda dos Rouxinóis poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Varanda dos Rouxinóis

1939

Coração de Gaúcho poster
8.0

Film based on the book "O Gaúcho" by the writer José de Alencar.

Coração de Gaúcho

1920

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

O Dinheiro dos Pobres poster
9.0

Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his carefree ways, and commits a robbery. Manuel knows the robber is Pedro, but he learned it in Catholic confession. To keep his vows as a priest, he is prepared to be arrested.

O Dinheiro dos Pobres

1956

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

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