
Acting
Joana Ribeiro
Born 1992-03-25 · Lisbon, Portugal
Joana Isabel de Alvim Ribeiro (March 25, 1992) is a Portuguese actress and model. Joana Ribeiro was born on 25 March 1992 in Lisbon, Portugal to an engineer father and veterinarian mother. She studied first at the Luís Madureira School in Alfragide, and then completed secondary studies in Lisbon. Ribeiro initially studied architecture, but changed her focus to acting. She signed with an agency, Lisbon Elite, and played in the short film Herança do Silêncio (Silent Inheritance). Ribeiro's breakout role was as Mariana Côrte-Real in the telenovela Dancin' Days. Her next role was in another telenovela, Sol de Inverno (Winter Sun). She was cast as Susan Delgado in Amazon Prime Video's cancelled 2020 The Dark Tower series. Internationally, she's acted in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) by Terry Gilliam, Fatima (2020) by Marco Pontecorvo (in which she played Our Lady of Fátima), Infinite by Antoine Fuqua (2021) and The Man Who Fell to Earth by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet (2022). She was one of the ten "Shooting Stars" at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020.
Acting credits
6.6Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are real.
Infinite
2021
6.7Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018
7.2In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Fatima
2020
10.0Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local boys youth team. Determined to become a professional, she devotes all her free time to intense training with her father. Their routine is shaken by the unexpected return of her older brother, who left many years earlier after a tragic fire that took their mother’s life. As she prepares for the most important match of her life, Maria begins to question her father’s authority and gradually seeks a way to break free and take control of her own future.
Maria Vitória
2025
7.1An unexpected meeting on Twitter, introduces young actress Luísa to António, a writer and journalist, who hides his identity using Rasputine as his profile name. This virtual relationship becomes the centre of their lives and one day, they finally decide to meet. But, on his way, António has an accident…
Crooked Lines
2019
5.7In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
Nightride
2022
8.0Gilda is terminally ill. Her only wish is to die without pain, and as all her suicide attempts comically fail, she decides to seek professional help.
Dreaming of Lions
2025
5.7In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside. Feelings of jealousy, admiration and the complex magnetism between these two strong women arise.
The Sibyl
2023
NRA broken family gets together for Christmas dinner when their mentally ill daughter comes home for the first time since she was institutionalized.
Muletas
2017
Young Roland Deschain investigates a treacherous plot in the town of Mejis, far from his hometown of Gilead. Here he finds love and learns of his true destiny.
The Dark Tower
2020
6.3Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that occurred in 1923. Through his search, he embarks on an epic tale that goes from the turn of the 19th century to the end of the 20th, in the magnificent Angolan south.
The Englishman's Papers
2024
NROn a secluded island lives an autonomous community of children who don’t speak, communicating only in gestures. Guided by the eldest among them, they operate like an agrarian commune with strict rules and beliefs. Adults are banished into the surrounding woods, and every year, the oldest member of the village is sent to jump off a cliff – a ceremony that is believed to bestow eternal youth on the chosen one. This way of life is threatened when one adventurous child heeds the call of the forbidden forest.
First Age
2023
NR"Out of the Grey" tells the story of Laura, a pregnant environmental refugee who is forced to leave her haven in the hope of finding medical support and safety for her unborn baby. The film touches on present-day issues such as the cost of living, global warming, and the refugee crisis in an inhospitable world.
Out of the Grey
2023
An environmental activist Denver Blake has decided to expose a cosmetics corporation that he believes is exploiting the insecurities caused by societal beauty standards. However, when he falls in love with Renée, a former ballerina obsessed with constantly improving her beauty, he becomes drawn into a mesmerizing underworld of plastic surgery.
Bodyhackers
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A couple is enjoying the night darkness and ends up with no gas in their car. While trying to find help, they start to realize that the crisis is expanding and forcing people to do terrible things.
Gasolina
2015
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Herança do Silêncio
2013
5.4The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
The Black Book
2018
4.3It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.
At an Uncertain Time
2015
4.0Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Dialogues After the End
2023
4.5Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child that she believes is still alive.
Shadow
2021
2.5The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany, France and Angola, and show that Portugal is not for sale.
Portugal Não Está à Venda
2019
2.0A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
Domingos
2009
4.0The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star.
Name Above Title
2020