Isabel de Castro

Isabel de Castro

Isabel Maria Bastos Osório de Castro e Oliveira (August 1, 1931 – November 23, 2005) was a Portuguese film actress. She was born in the capital Lisbon in 1931 to José Osório de Castro e Oliveira (Setúbal, 27 January 1900 - Lisbon, 3 December 1964) and writer Raquel Bastos, granddaughter of the writer Ana de Castro Osório, brother of the writer João Osório de Castro. Castro's career began with the movie Ladrão, Precisa-se! in 1946. Later, she appeared in some Spanish films including Under the Skies of the Asturias where she played as Angelina Quirós, The Pelegrín System, Lawless Mountain as Maria and in El cerco. She played in more Portuguese films including Francisca (1981), O Desejado (1987) and Hard Times (1988). In the mid-1990s, she went to Cape Verde, appearing in the films Down to Earth (1995) and The Island of Contenda (1996), the latter based on the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa, in which she played the character of Nha Caela. Her last movie was A Casa Esquecida, in 2004. She appeared in about 50 films and appeared in theatre and television. She died of cancer in Borba near Évora. In 1948, she married Óscar Acúrsio, she later married Miguel Luke. Source: Article "Isabel de Castro" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Isabel de Castro
  • Popularity: 1.977
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-08-01
  • Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Isabel de Castro Movies

  • 1988
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    Hard Times

    Hard Times

    6.2 1988 HD

    A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

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  • 1952
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    El sistema Pelegrín

    El sistema Pelegrín

    6.2 1952 HD

    Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he...

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  • 1952
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    La danza del corazón

    La danza del corazón

    1 1952 HD

    On her journey to a provincial capital, Elena falls for the director of the Company of Zarzuela and leaves with him, despite opposition from his...

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  • 1993
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    Shadows in a Conflict

    Shadows in a Conflict

    5 1993 HD

    Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing...

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  • 1996
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    Desvio

    Desvio

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1986
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    A Portuguese Farewell

    A Portuguese Farewell

    5.9 1986 HD

    In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

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  • 1993
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    Here on Earth

    Here on Earth

    5.3 1993 HD

    Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be...

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  • 1956
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    O Dinheiro dos Pobres

    O Dinheiro dos Pobres

    1 1956 HD

    Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his...

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  • 1951
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    Under the Skies of the Asturias

    Under the Skies of the Asturias

    1 1951 HD

    The rich heiress of an emigrant lives a season of retreat and rest in the Asturian village from which her father left as a child. The experiences...

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  • 1988
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    Tall Stories

    Tall Stories

    5.7 1988 HD

    12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...

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  • 1993
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    O Miradouro da Lua

    O Miradouro da Lua

    7 1993 HD

    A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns...

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  • 1979
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    Música Para Si

    Música Para Si

    1 1979 HD

    A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only...

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  • 2000
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    Amo-te Teresa

    Amo-te Teresa

    6.7 2000 HD

    Amo-te Teresa tells the forbidden love story of Teresa and Miguel, aged 35 and 15, respectively. Teresa is a doctor and, after a frustrated love...

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  • 1989
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    Blood

    Blood

    6.8 1989 HD

    Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure...

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  • 1991
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    Xavier

    Xavier

    6.4 1991 HD

    Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

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  • 1983
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    No Trace of Sin

    No Trace of Sin

    6.4 1983 HD

    A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military,...

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  • 1999
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    La sombra de Caín

    La sombra de Caín

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    The open luggage

    The open luggage

    1 1999 HD

    Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, without...

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  • 1959
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    The Mystery Key

    The Mystery Key

    1 1959 HD

    A fussy insurance inspector (Varela Silva) has the mission to investigate why, in three years, 325 employees have passed through a farm shop. In his...

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  • 1955
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    El golfo que vio una estrella

    El golfo que vio una estrella

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1953
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    Lawless Mountain

    Lawless Mountain

    5 1953 HD

    Spanish Zorro adaptation

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  • 1978
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    O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas

    O Rei das Berlengas ou a Independência das Ditas

    7 1978 HD

    The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago,...

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  • 1975
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    Brandos Costumes

    Brandos Costumes

    5.9 1975 HD

    A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by...

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  • 2003
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    Sans elle...

    Sans elle...

    4.4 2003 HD

    Johnny, aged 20, can't live without Fanfan, his twin sister. There is a very particular intimacy between them. They walk together everywhere, share...

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  • 1995
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    Fado, Major and Minor

    Fado, Major and Minor

    5.3 1995 HD

    Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

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  • 1998
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    Senhor Jerónimo

    Senhor Jerónimo

    5 1998 HD

    Confusion caused by Jerónimo, an old man abandoned in a hospital unit, staging his own death.

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  • 1952
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    Persecución en Madrid

    Persecución en Madrid

    2 1952 HD

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  • 1981
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    Tiaga

    Tiaga

    5 1981 HD

    Tiaga tells the story of a poor old woman, played by Isabel de Castro, to whom a good wizard offers the gift of youth to reward the help she provided...

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  • 1997
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    Voyage to the Beginning of the World

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World

    6.8 1997 HD

    Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose...

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  • 1955
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    El cerco

    El cerco

    6 1955 HD

    A group of robbers assault a factory in the port of Barcelona, but, upon being discovered, they are forced to flee hastily, each one his own way. An...

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  • 1995
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    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    6.9 1995 HD

    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

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  • 1966
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    Sunday Afternoon

    Sunday Afternoon

    7 1966 HD

    Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill...

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  • 1993
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    Chá Forte com Limão

    Chá Forte com Limão

    1 1993 HD

    In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an...

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  • 1999
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    The Island of Contenda

    The Island of Contenda

    5.3 1999 HD

    Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning...

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  • 1954
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    El presidio

    El presidio

    6 1954 HD

    After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him...

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  • 2002
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    Low-Flying Aircraft

    Low-Flying Aircraft

    5.4 2002 HD

    Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...

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  • 1953
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    La hija del mar

    La hija del mar

    1 1953 HD

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  • 2000
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    When It Thunders

    When It Thunders

    5 2000 HD

    The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António...

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  • 1987
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    The Mountains of the Moon

    The Mountains of the Moon

    5.3 1987 HD

    This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

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  • 1988
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    Three Less Me

    Three Less Me

    1 1988 HD

    A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

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  • 1994
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    Three Palm Trees

    Three Palm Trees

    5.5 1994 HD

    Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...

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  • 1999
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    Gloria

    Gloria

    5.8 1999 HD

    Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a...

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  • 2003
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    Us

    Us

    2 2003 HD

    Francisco just got out of prison after a six year sentence and is now a free man. He wants to change, and after a few days sleeping in the subway...

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  • 1983
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    Jogo de Mão

    Jogo de Mão

    6 1983 HD

    In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the...

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  • 1986
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    Passagem ou a Meio Caminho

    Passagem ou a Meio Caminho

    1 1986 HD

    Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

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  • 1998
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    Guardian Angel

    Guardian Angel

    1 1998 HD

    Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

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  • 2006
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    Antes de a Vida Começar

    Antes de a Vida Começar

    1 2006 HD

    Biographic documentary about the Portuguese actress, Isabel de Castro.

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  • 2004
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    A Casa Esquecida

    A Casa Esquecida

    1 2004 HD

    Ivo and Tomás, two volunteered vagabonds who feed their souls of ways and great winds. From time to time they make a stop, renting their arms,...

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  • 1979
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    E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

    E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

    1 1979 HD

    The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a...

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  • 1998
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    Traffic

    Traffic

    5.2 1998 HD

    Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

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  • 1991
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    Swing troubadour

    Swing troubadour

    1 1991 HD

    In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man...

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  • 1970
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    O Destino Marca a Hora

    O Destino Marca a Hora

    5 1970 HD

    A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all...

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  • 1982
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    The Conversation Is Over

    The Conversation Is Over

    5.1 1982 HD

    The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

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  • 1988
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    Mensagem

    Mensagem

    1 1988 HD

    Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and...

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  • 1993
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    Family Matters

    Family Matters

    2.8 1993 HD

    Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his...

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  • 1989
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    The Seventh Letter

    The Seventh Letter

    1 1989 HD

    Some time ago Gerardo knew another man of the same age called Berardo. When he said the name, Berardo expressed his oppinion violently, saying that...

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  • 1996
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    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    5 1996 HD

    At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and...

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  • 1964
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    Fado Corrido

    Fado Corrido

    10 1964 HD

    A Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting the love of a teenager, recently...

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  • 2002
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    O Fato Completo ou À Procura de Alberto

    O Fato Completo ou À Procura de Alberto

    1 2002 HD

    "At first everything was relatively simple. I was looking for a boy of African origins, between 16 and 18 years old to incarnate the role of Alberto...

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  • 1952
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    Souls in Danger

    Souls in Danger

    1 1952 HD

    Two boys are sent to reform school under the guidance of Father Fernando, a young and dedicated priest.

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  • 1950
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    Criminal Brigade

    Criminal Brigade

    5.6 1950 HD

    A young policemen witnesses a bank robbery which will become his first case. To catch the thieves he will infiltrate himself as one of the gang...

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  • 1962
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    Martes y trece

    Martes y trece

    5 1962 HD

    Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as...

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  • 1961
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    As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor

    As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor

    5 1961 HD

    The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents,...

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  • 1952
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    Dulce nombre

    Dulce nombre

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1953
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    Bronce y luna

    Bronce y luna

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1952
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    Mercado prohibido

    Mercado prohibido

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1953
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    Hay un camino a la derecha

    Hay un camino a la derecha

    5.8 1953 HD

    Upon arrival in Barcelona, Miguel is fired from his job as a sailor and the financial problems which he will face from that moment will gradually...

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  • 2005
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    Memórias do Cativeiro

    Memórias do Cativeiro

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1979
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    Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

    Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

    6.4 1979 HD

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  • 1994
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    Zona+

    Zona+

    1 1994 HD

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  • 2001
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    Anjo Selvagem

    Anjo Selvagem

    6 2001 HD

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  • 1997
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    A Grande Aposta

    A Grande Aposta

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1991
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    Alentejo Sem Lei

    Alentejo Sem Lei

    4 1991 HD

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  • 1995
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    Queridas e Maduras

    Queridas e Maduras

    1 1995 HD

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  • 2000
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    A Raia dos Medos

    A Raia dos Medos

    7 2000 HD

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  • 1993
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    Procura-se

    Procura-se

    6 1993 HD

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  • 1995
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    Tudo ao Molho e Fé em Deus

    Tudo ao Molho e Fé em Deus

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1993
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    Ideias com História

    Ideias com História

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1995
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    Desencontros

    Desencontros

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1988
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    Cobardias

    Cobardias

    1 1988 HD

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