Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city’s Municipal Theater Read More »
Tag Archives: Joaquim de Almeida
Water and Salt / Água e Sal (2001) Teresa Villaverde
Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and her daughter. Read More »
A Shot in the Dark / Um Tiro no Escuro (2005) Leonel Vieira, Joaquim de Almeida, Vanessa Mesquita, Filipe Duarte
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon Read More »
Just a Normal Life / Uma Vida Normal (1994) Joaquim Leitão, Joaquim de Almeida, María Barranco, Anamar
Miguel is 40 years old and has his great share of the usual problems. Read More »
Alex / A Idade Maior (1991) Teresa Villaverde, Ricardo Colares, Teresa Roby, Joaquim de Almeida
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa. Read More »
Holy Money (2009) Maxime Alexandre, Aaron Stanford, Joaquim de Almeida, Ben Gazzara
Anthony’s family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident Read More »
According to Pereira AKA Sostiene Pereira (1995) Roberto Faenza, Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. Read More »
Good Morning, Babylon AKA Good morning Babilonia (1987) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi
After the bankruptcy of their father’s stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. Read More »
The Fencing Master / El maestro de esgrima (1992) Pedro Olea, Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, Joaquim de Almeida, Thriller, History
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Read More »
Os Imortais / The Imortals (2003) António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Joaquim de Almeida, Emmanuelle Seigner, Nicolau Breyner, Action, Crime, Drama
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves “Os Imortais” (“The Immortals”), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined…
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