Lídia Franco

Acting

Lídia Franco

Born 1944-03-23 · Lisbon, Portugal

Acting credits

6 Underground poster
6.3

After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

6 Underground

2019

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote poster
6.7

Toby, 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

Canção da Saudade poster
7.0

Leonel is a pianist, nostalgic of sweet melodies, while his son is the (real-life) leader of Os Gatos Pretos (black cats), a twist musical group. The conflict is eventu ally solved when Leonel's daughter, Cilinha, starts dating Raúl, a well-off young man, who promote a new dancing club, the Lisboa Antiga e Moderna, where old new music get even shares.

Canção da Saudade

1964

Lovely Child poster
7.1

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Lovely Child

1990

The Milky Life poster
3.6

Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.

The Milky Life

1993

Love Comedy poster
7.0

According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.

Love Comedy

1989

Stalin's Couch poster
4.0

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

Stalin's Couch

2016

One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve poster
8.5

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.

One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve

1993

Santo António - O Casamenteiro de Lisboa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Santo António - O Casamenteiro de Lisboa

2026

In the White City poster
7.0

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

In the White City

1983

The Curse of Marialva poster
4.7

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

The Curse of Marialva

1991

My Name Is Bernadette poster
7.4

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

My Name Is Bernadette

2011

The Crime of Aldeia Velha poster
7.5

Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slowly start believing that she is possessed by the devil.

The Crime of Aldeia Velha

1964

The Wheat and the Tares poster
8.0

A sad and strong people living in the huge plains of Alentejo. Their endless struggle for bread, their nostalgic, bewitching songs and their daily toil to turn a dry, barren land into golden wheat fields.

The Wheat and the Tares

1965

Haircut poster
5.4

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.

Haircut

1996

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

No artwork available
9.0

Documentary dedicated to the plastic artist Fernando Lanhas

Fernando Lanhas - Os 7 Rostos

1988

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA poster
5.5

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

2003

Ruy Blas poster
6.3

Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.

Ruy Blas

2002

No artwork available
10.0

A middle-aged musician speaks of various themes - innocence, friendship, seduction, fascination, love, death - immediately portrayed in paintings, which the actors interpret, in different situations from the character they embody. In the spotlight, a young photographer, a strange-looking dancer / model, a bullfighter who lives his dream, a retired old man ...

Fábula em Veneza

1991

Feu Adrien Muset poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Feu Adrien Muset

1992

Ruth poster
6.7

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

Ruth

2018

Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis poster
4.6

At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits who cross his path learn this to their own cost. But, unfortunately, no one is perfect... As soon as he catches a cold, Benoît loses his extraordinary physical abilities. Hence he never takes off the woollen scarf wrapped around his neck. Brave and very determined, he doesn't hesitate a second to take action to defend his friends. So, when Poilonez - a well known crook - and his gang decide to focus on Mr. Dussiflard, his taxi driver friend, Benoît does all that he can to thwart his plans.

Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis

2014

Dead Man's Seat poster
5.4

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.

Dead Man's Seat

1984