Edgar Morais

Acting

Edgar Morais

Born 1989-06-25 · Coimbra, Portugal

Edgar Miguel Diogo de Morais (born June 25, 1989) is a Portuguese actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer. Edgar won the Best Actor award at the Prishtina International Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe (Portugal) for his performance in A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On (2022), Albania's submission for the 95th Academy Awards. His performance received widespread international critical acclaim, including from Variety and Screen International. As a director, his works include Heatstroke (2019) and the award-winning We Won't Forget (2021).

Acting credits

Good Time poster
7.2

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

Good Time

2017

Marfa Girl 2 poster
4.7

A family living in Marfa, Texas attempts to pull themselves back together after a horrific tragedy. This provocative sequel to Larry Clark's film Marfa Girl, shows us a group of people ready to escape their current realities - no matter the cost. Gritty, unrelenting and powerful, auteur Clark once again delivers a bleak landscape of sex, drugs and boredom amongst the residents of a dead-end Texas Border town.

Marfa Girl 2

2018

Lovely, Dark, and Deep poster
5.0

Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.

Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2023

No artwork available
NR

After surviving a mass shooting, Madame P., an internationally renowned opera singer, retreats into a world where dreams and reality blur freely. Walls come alive, figures dance in fireplace flames, tiny people need rescuing from dumplings, and an armadillo — her unlikely companion since the tragedy — follows her everywhere. A close friend and companion helps her navigate daily life. Her everyday life in a medieval mansion is interrupted by two American outsiders who arrive full of good intentions.

An Odd Enchantment

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean poster
5.9

Part period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you have never seen him before.

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean

2012

The Worst Man in London poster
5.2

In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of blackmail.

The Worst Man in London

2024

The Napkin poster
NR

A neurotic young man attempts to handle the recent death of his father while hosting a bachelor party for his best friend.

The Napkin

2012

Asphalt Guerrilla poster
NR

A reserved student joins a radical organization in early 1980s Portugal and is shot and lynched following a bank robbery, while a filmmaker leaves the group to pursue guerrilla-style cinema.

Asphalt Guerrilla

2026

Remains of the Wind poster
6.7

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

Remains of the Wind

2022

A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On poster
5.0

In today’s Tirana, Agim and Gëzim, two inseparable deaf-mute identical twin brothers, live under the same roof. Ana, Gëzim’s girlfriend, a young high-spirited woman in her thirties, visits them quite often. One evening, Agim is driving back home with Gëzim, when his sight gets blurred and a fatal accident nearly occurs. At the ophthalmologist, a few days later, the two brothers discover that due to a genetic and rare disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, only Ana by their side, the two brothers have to make a strong decision around a cup of coffee with new shoes on.

A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On

2022

No artwork available
NR

The story of a group of actors and artists living in Los Angeles who are struggling to find their humanity within the whirlwind of show business, parties, drugs, depression, money, lack of money, love, greed, ambition, addiction, art and technology.

Fault Line

2009

Chasing Eagle Rock poster
6.0

An offbeat examination of Internet crime, shady partnerships and well-deserved revenge, Chasing Eagle Rock asks the question: if they steal your identity, do you still know who you are?

Chasing Eagle Rock

2020

We Won't Forget poster
10.0

A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.

We Won't Forget

2021

You See the Moon poster
2.0

Lisbon; after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. An improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion.

You See the Moon

2018

Greece poster
NR

On a rainy afternoon in a British nursing home, a woman struggles to make a last connection with her seemingly catatonic mother.

Greece

2014

No artwork available
NR

After spending his childhood in Macau, Afonso returns to Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974. Amidst the country’s upheaval, he navigates an agitated adolescence and experiences a personal revolution - discovering himself and his sexuality.

Afonso's Smile

From Now On poster
3.3

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.

From Now On

2008

Behind the camera

Heatstroke poster
10.0

A reflection on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

Heatstroke

2019

Heatstroke poster
10.0

A reflection on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

Heatstroke

2019

Heatstroke poster
10.0

A reflection on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

Heatstroke

2019

It Was Them poster
NR

A portrait of the highs and lows of Jonathan Velasquez, Eddie Velasquez, Frank Navarrette and Carlos Ramirez, a group of friends from South Central L.A. who look to find their footing as immigrants in the foreign and labyrinthic streets of Paris. The film spans over a decade in the lives of the nomads and features an original soundtrack written and performed by the subjects.

It Was Them

It Was Them poster
NR

A portrait of the highs and lows of Jonathan Velasquez, Eddie Velasquez, Frank Navarrette and Carlos Ramirez, a group of friends from South Central L.A. who look to find their footing as immigrants in the foreign and labyrinthic streets of Paris. The film spans over a decade in the lives of the nomads and features an original soundtrack written and performed by the subjects.

It Was Them

It Was Them poster
NR

A portrait of the highs and lows of Jonathan Velasquez, Eddie Velasquez, Frank Navarrette and Carlos Ramirez, a group of friends from South Central L.A. who look to find their footing as immigrants in the foreign and labyrinthic streets of Paris. The film spans over a decade in the lives of the nomads and features an original soundtrack written and performed by the subjects.

It Was Them

We Won't Forget poster
10.0

A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.

We Won't Forget

2021

We Won't Forget poster
10.0

A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.

We Won't Forget

2021

We Won't Forget poster
10.0

A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.

We Won't Forget

2021