Acting
Elsa Valentim
Born
1966-01-04 (60)
Place of birth
Beja, Portugal
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Water Mirror
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Winter Sun
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Will for Revenge
2015
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Anjo Selvagem
2001
4.4With Algarve and South Africa as main stages, Paixão tells the story of a love that was destroyed by a lie. This is the story of a man determined to fight for justice and to recover ten years of his life and an unshakable love that resists time and all threats.
Living Passion
2017
Film credits
2020s · 8 titles
5.2Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the house is still under construction. This is just the beginning of the problems for the grandparents, because soon they will lose their children. They have only two days left to find them, before their parents join them.
Just Retired 2
2022
NRAn adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Teófilo de Braga.
A Pereira da Tia Miséria
2021
3.2António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.
Nothing Ever Happened
2022
7.2In a small Portuguese town, a family is turned upside down when their son leaves to study in London. Over a year, we see a daughter's coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son's emancipation and a mother coping with an "empty nest"
Autumn
2023
NRIt is inspired by the true story of the girls and women of a Ukrainian family forced to find rescue from the war. Although... War can never truly be escaped.
Wings
2026
6.0Through an acting game, the director's parents become movie stars to talk about the cancer they both overcame and the fear of loss.
Ponto Final
2022
NRThe misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of some mysteries, form the perfect trilogy by the Countess of Ségur on education, social, religious, and political power. Desire and its oppression, violence and punishment, in short, the terrible loss combined with inevitable growth. Both adults and children will understand that precepts, rules, and prayers can tear nerves and blood apart.
As Meninas Exemplares
2025
NRThe revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho’s camera, in a detective-minded film, in which the early years of the life of the historic leader of the Portuguese Communist Party are explored. In between, excerpts from his own books are staged for the spectator.
Young Mr. Cunhal
2022
2010s · 3 titles
6.2Portugal, 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town ran by communist winds. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.
Al Berto
2017
6.8Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Cats Don't Have Vertigo
2014
5.9A young girl goes through a series of strange events after she is dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday and loses her job.
O Amor é Lindo ... Porque Sim!
2016
2000s · 2 titles
7.2The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Lourdes
2000
6.2The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back and lets himself drown. From the woods come Violeta and Gaspar, two strange beings, a mixture of fairies, demons and guardian angels, who help António overcome his depression. With the thunders the two characters return to their domains. And life goes on.
When It Thunders
2000
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Water Mirror
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Winter Sun
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Will for Revenge
2015
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Anjo Selvagem
2001
4.4With Algarve and South Africa as main stages, Paixão tells the story of a love that was destroyed by a lie. This is the story of a man determined to fight for justice and to recover ten years of his life and an unshakable love that resists time and all threats.
Living Passion
2017
6.2The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.
Mulheres
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Golpe de Sorte
2019
8.0No synopsis available yet.
A Lenda da Garça
1999
NRDoce Fugitiva is a Portuguese telenovela, broadcast in the channel TVI. It aired from October 24, 2006 to September 16, 2007. It's a remake of the 2002 Argentine telenovela Kachorra.
Doce Fugitiva
2006
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
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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Super Pai
2000
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Roseira Brava
1996
6.4Une famille formidable is a French romantic comedy television series broadcast since September 17, 1992. It details the goings on of a family, and follows them as they grow up. As of 2008, the cast is the same as the 1992 cast, an unusual feat for a program with a run of this length. In 2012, during the broadcast of the season 9 is celebrated twenty years of the series.
Une famille formidable
1992
10.0Maria is a young woman trying to rebuild her life after her mother's death while holding on to her dream of becoming a singer. Her life changes when she saves two children from being hit by a car and becomes involved with the wealthy Elias family. After the children's parents die, Maria unexpectedly helps keep the five siblings together alongside their uncle Francisco, while pursuing her musical ambitions and navigating feelings that further complicate her new life.
Fresh Pasta
2016
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Ana e os Sete
2002
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Médico de Família
1998
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Esquadra de Polícia
1999
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Uma Casa em Fanicos
1998
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Polícias
1996
NRA Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.
Near Distance
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Crianças S.O.S
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Feitiço de Amor
2008
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Crónica dos Bons Malandros
2020
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Dentro
2016
8.2Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.
Sara
2018
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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Queridas e Maduras
1995