Soraia Chaves

Acting

Soraia Chaves

Born

1982-06-22 (44)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Soraia Chaves (born 22 June 1982 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese actress and model. She became famous with the role of Amélia in the film O Crime do Padre Amaro and the role of Maria in her next film, Call Girl.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

O Direito do Mais Fraco à Liberdade poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Direito do Mais Fraco à Liberdade

2025

A Mulher que Morreu de Pé poster
NR

This fictional documentary traces a poetic cartography based on the journey of a theater group to São Miguel, Natália Correia's birthplace, and Lisbon, where she lived most of her life. It passes through Botequim, Assembleia da República, Hotel Britânia, Teatro Micaelense, Parque Terra Nostra, and so many other places once inhabited by Natália and now by these actors who help us to unearth the myths, ghosts, and pains born in the life and work of Natália — one of the most important figures in Portuguese culture, literature, and politics, before and after April 25.

A Mulher que Morreu de Pé

2025

Memories of Prison poster
NR

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860, he in October of the same year, after an adventurous escape from justice through the lands of the North.

Memories of Prison

2026

Além do Horizonte - A Travessia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Além do Horizonte - A Travessia

2025

Um Filme em Forma de Assim poster
4.2

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

Um Filme em Forma de Assim

2022

Sombras Brancas poster
8.0

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.

Sombras Brancas

2023

2010s · 15 titles

The Gilded Cage poster
6.7

In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.

The Gilded Cage

2013

Lines of Wellington poster
5.7

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Lines of Wellington

2012

Russian Red poster
6.0

Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.

Russian Red

2016

No artwork available
NR

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each episode has for landscape and dramatic background the everyday-life in the social housing neighborhoods and shanty towns of Lisbon. It explores the infinite possibilities of narratives and characters generated by the daily confrontation of the normal life of the city with several layers of cultural heritages and lifestyles, brought by different waves of migration. A network of interconnected characters, families and ties makes the narrative to evolve and illustrates the cultural, artistic, social and economic explosion that we are about to live in here.

Cidade

2017

Real Playing Game poster
4.0

In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.

Real Playing Game

2013

Um Desejo de Natal poster
NR

Several stories of love and hope, united by invisible threads. There are those who call these threads magic, some who call them destiny. What matters is that they will lead all of our characters to the same outcome, on the same day: Christmas Eve

Um Desejo de Natal

2019

The Beauty and the Paparazzo poster
6.5

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.

The Beauty and the Paparazzo

2010

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos poster
NR

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

2019

Blood Lines poster
4.0

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

Blood Lines

2018

The Social Division of Labor According to Adam Smith poster
NR

Five workers on an assembly line at a large company based in an airport challenge the impossibility of changing the social division of labor, carried out in accordance with the classical principles of specialization and segmentation.

The Social Division of Labor According to Adam Smith

2011

Moscatro poster
NR

The world seen through Ana Lara's eyes. Between illness, manipulation and love, Ana Lara lives in constant confrontation with her own escape.

Moscatro

2018

Impossible Love poster
5.4

Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.

Impossible Love

2015

Idle Road poster
3.7

Two lovers hit the road for a holiday. They find a car that has been hit, and a dead woman by the accident. Two production assistants try to leave the set, but all the roads seem to hit the same spot, where they find a dead woman that walks.

Idle Road

2014

La chambre jaune poster
3.3

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

La chambre jaune

2012

Florbela poster
4.8

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

Florbela

2012

2000s · 4 titles

Series credits

Alta Definição poster
7.2

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Alta Definição

2009

Heart & Soul poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Heart & Soul

2018

Broken Promise poster
6.0

The search for love and redemption... Helena is a former secretary of António Fontes Morais’s who cunningly managed to get married to her boss, thus earning the title of a trophy wife. Together, they had two children: Tomás and Camila. Their firstborn is a playboy who has been living in the United States and Camila is a spoiled young woman who spends her days spending money and on her phone. The family enjoys a lavish lifestyle, but António doesn’t go without a driver and armed security since his brother Fausto was murdered, leaving his son Miguel under the care of his aunt and uncle. Helena’s hatred for the Rocha family has grown as much as the cousins Tomás and Miguel's love for Laura. So, without realizing, the nurse sees herself in the middle of a love triangle that will undermine the harmony between the Fontes Morais and Rocha families. Still, Verónica, who is totally in love with Tomás, and Helena will resort to any means necessary in order to get rid of Laura.

Broken Promise

2024

Dancin' Days poster
NR

Dancin' Days is a Portuguese soap opera which began airing on SIC in June 2012.

Dancin' Days

2012

Will for Revenge poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Will for Revenge

2015

Jura poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jura

2006

Páginas da Vida poster
NR

Nanda dies after giving birth to twins, Francisco and Clara. Marta, the maternal grandmother, agrees to keep the boy, but gives the girl, who has Down syndrome, up for adoption. Helena, the doctor who delivers the baby, becomes attached to the child and secretly adopts her. Years later, Leo returns to Portugal and discovers he is a father. In an attempt to regain custody of the children, he relies on Marta's opportunistic support. But Helena is determined to fight him for Clara's guardianship. Remake of the Brazilian telenovela of the same name.

Páginas da Vida

2026

Silent Cargo poster
6.4

November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.

Silent Cargo

2022

Taskmaster Portugal poster
8.6

Five public figures are challenged by “Taskmaster” Vasco Palmeirim and his assistant Nuno Markl to overcome a series of fun tests with a small dose of madness.

Taskmaster Portugal

2022

3 Women poster
8.0

A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.

3 Women

2018

Star Hill poster
3.3

No synopsis available yet.

Star Hill

2021

Direct Flight poster
NR

Life at 500 mph... Patrícia, Marta, Yara and Weza are flight attendants who share a close friendship travelling between Portugal and Luanda. Filled with humour, strength and hope, these four friends have each other’s back unconditionally, in their highs and lows. As they’re hitting 30, new concerns come up, which they put off, such as marriage, motherhood and their own careers. When confronted with their first big disappointments in their adult lives, they’ll start to question the way they saw their future play out up until then... And the men in their lives as well... Their odd work hours and the distance that separates them leave little room for them getting together so, when their days off match and their flight schedule permitting, they get together and up to speed with each other. When everything in their lives seems to be decided for them, they’ll end up realizing that each day can turn into a new start after all.

Direct Flight

2010

In Treatment poster
9.0

Susceptibility taken to its limit... In Therapy leads us into a journey along the intriguing and fascinating world of psychotherapy. As a therapist, Mário is faced with a different patient and their issues in his office every day of the week. However, as is customary, he has ongoing sessions himself with Graça, his mentor and fellow psychologist.

In Treatment

2016

Thieves Like Us poster
5.0

During an eclipse in 1984, an iconic gang of armed robbers is dismantled after robbery of the Banco de Portugal. Part of the group is arrested, the other is murdered. Two members are left together. This event is the result of an anonymous call. Who denounced them? “Racing Horses” tells this gang's story, emphasizing the individual motivations that led each member to choose this way of life. As a backdrop, the bathing area of a Portugal about to enter the European Economic Community.

Thieves Like Us

2023

The General poster
6.3

The plot addresses Maria Luísa's struggle for freedom, the struggle for rights and privileges that, at the time, were reserved almost exclusively to men. Maria Luísa decides to assume a false identity - that of a man.

The General

2020

Drought poster
5.6

In a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border, two skeletons are discovered that reveal evidence of a bloody crime.

Drought

2022

Star Sailors poster
10.0

The fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary- navigandum est.

Star Sailors

2025

Perdidamente Florbela poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perdidamente Florbela

2012

Irreversible poster
6.2

A tormented psychologist and an inspector unite to solve a brutal homicide involving a young girl in a coastal town.​´​As they unravel the crime, they battle their own personal demons and strive to keep their lives intact.​ In a town where everyone hides something and is willing to do anything to protect their loved ones, the quest for truth may cost more than Júlia imagines, as from the moment the secrets of the past are revealed, everything becomes irreversible.

Irreversible

2024

Salazar - A Vida Privada poster
2.5

In the final phase of Salazar's life, the statesman recalls his life, his choices, the decisions he made, and those he could have made. Revealing the man behind the figure who ruled Portugal for 40 years was the great challenge: Salazar, as a statesman, is known to the general public. The myth of the stoic, staunchly religious, and asexual statesman is counterbalanced in this film.

Salazar - A Vida Privada

2009

3 Mulheres Pós-Revolução poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

3 Mulheres Pós-Revolução

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Tales from the Mountain poster
NR

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that, at times, proves impossible to repress.

Tales from the Mountain

2023

The Marquise poster
NR

After her family is accused of regicide, Leonor de Almeida Portugal is imprisoned in a convent for eighteen years. Incarcerated, she becomes "Alcipe" through poetry and finds love and freedom in Carlos Augusto. But her life path is marked by the earthquake of 1755 and since that day, the earth has never stopped shaking. From the end of her luxurious life in Vienna, to her flight from France, to the loss of two children, Alcipe never gives up and always rises from the ashes.

The Marquise

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Fama Show poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fama Show

2008

Linhas de Sangue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Linhas de Sangue

2021