Ana Cristina Oliveira

Acting

Ana Cristina Oliveira

Born 1973-07-24 · Lisbon, Portugal

Ana Cristina de Oliveira (born 24 July 1973) is a Portuguese model and actress. In 1996, Oliveira was featured on Bryan Adams' music video "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You". In 1999, she starred in the music video for Chris Cornell's single "Can't Change Me". In 2006 she won the Prix d'interpretation Janine Bazin (Best Actress) at the Entrevues Belfort film festival for her portrayal of the title role in the feature film Odete (also known as Two Drifters). She is known for playing roles in US films Taxi, Miami Vice, television (CSI: Miami), and advertising for Levi's in 1996.

Acting credits

Taxi poster
5.6

A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.

Taxi

2004

Miami Vice poster
6.0

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Miami Vice

2006

Maria Vitória poster
10.0

Maria 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

Molly poster
4.2

Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due to budget cuts, Molly is left in the care of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck forces her to undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.

Molly

1999

Red Flags poster
NR

When her husband mysteriously goes missing on holiday in Portugal, a dark flame ignites within a former child star, sending her on a journey of self-discovery driven by an appetite for sex, violence and pasteis de nata.

Red Flags

Two Drifters poster
6.2

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui.

Two Drifters

2005

Autoerótico poster
10.0

On a foggy night, a blonde woman unexpectedly haunts the path of two young men in a suburban park.

Autoerótico

2022

O Cônsul de Bordéus poster
6.3

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.

O Cônsul de Bordéus

2012

Backlight poster
6.1

Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.

Backlight

2010

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

Close

2001

Carga poster
6.1

A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.

Carga

2018

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

Tudo Isto é Fado poster
5.1

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?

Tudo Isto é Fado

2004

Shadow poster
4.5

Years 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

Boca Cava Terra poster
10.0

A 10 year old girl is taken to a man who never recognized parenthood.

Boca Cava Terra

2022

Amore con la S maiuscola poster
10.0

A man and a woman try to win back their respective partners.

Amore con la S maiuscola

2002

No artwork available
3.3

Scientist, Alexander Tom thought he had it all, great wife, great house, career... that was until the death of his best friend and a random affair with an anonymous woman force him to re-evaluate everything. In the ensuing days his relationships with his father, his wife, his co-worker and Walela, the mysterious woman, contribute to his edification that life is riddled with intangibles, that complacency and routine have deadened him and that despite his scientific understanding of life, there are other forces at play.

The Craving Heart

2006

Next Door: Hope poster
NR

Cellist Helena is married to Mário, who criticizes her as an artist and a woman, leaving her insecure to the point of leaving the stage and becoming isolated and dependent on her husband.

Next Door: Hope

2021

Km 224 poster
4.1

Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents to reassess many of their certainties and question the effects on the happiness of their children.

Km 224

2022