
Rita Blanco
Actor · b. 1963 · Algés, Oeiras, Portugal
Estreia-se como actriz na peça Mariana Espera Casamento, de Jean-Paul Wenzel, sob a direcção de Luís Miguel Cintra, em 1983. Conclui o Curso de Formação de Actores do Conservatório Nacional, em 1985. Ainda no Teatro da Cornucópia representou Perversões de David Mamet, dirigida por Miguel Guilherme e José Pedro Gomes; Antes que a Noite Venha de Eduarda Dionísio, com Adriano Luz; Sangue no Pescoço do Gato de Fassbinder, com Luís Miguel Cintra. Em 1989 participou em Como é Diferente o Amor em Portugal, adaptação da obra de Júlio Dantas, dirigida por Fernando Gomes. Nunca Nada de Ninguém de Luísa Costa Gomes, encenado por Ana Tamen valeu-lhe a nomeação para o Prémio Garrett para a Melhor Interpretação Feminina (1991). Em 1997 participou em Peter Pan de James Barrie, encenado por António Pires no São Luiz. No cinema foi dirigida por João Botelho (1994 - Três Palmeiras; 1999 Tráfico; 2003 - A Mulher Que Acreditava Ser a Presidente dos EUA; 2005 - O Fatalista), João Mário Grilo (1998 - Longe da Vista; 2002 - A Falha; 2000 - 451 Forte), José Nascimento (2000 - Tarde Demais), Teresa Villaverde (1998 - Os Mutantes), Manoel de Oliveira (1998 - Inquietude), João César Monteiro (1992 - O Último Mergulho) ou Jorge Silva Melo (1987 - Agosto; 1985 - Ninguém duas Vezes). Na televisão, apareceu em A Mala de Cartão (1988) série que contava com a participação de Irene Papas. Trabalhou junto do humorista Herman José, em Casino Royal (1989), Crime na Pensão Estrelinha (1990) e Serafim Saudade - o regresso do Herói (2001). Participou ainda em Sai da Minha1996, Médico de Família (1998/2000), A Minha Sogra é uma Bruxa (2003), na telenovela Tempo de Viver (2006) de Rui Vilhena (a sua estreia na TVI e em telenovelas) Conta-me como Foi (2007-2009). Apresentou com Henrique Mendes o concurso Caça ao Tesouro (1994). Em 2011 após 2 anos de ausência, regressa à televisão em grande dose trabalhando nos 3 canais Portugueses generalistas: primeiro na sitcom da SIC A Família Mata, depois no telefilme da TVI O Profeta e por fim na 2ª temporada da Série da RTP Maternidades. Salienta a sua colaboração com o encenador e cineasta João Canijo. Com ele trabalhou no teatro (1988 - Crimes do Coração de Beth Henley; 1987 - Jogos de Praia de Whitehead; 1994 - Confissões ao Luar de Eugene O'Neill; 2002 - Sete Vidas de Rosa Lobato de Faria), no cinema (1988 - Três Menos Eu (Festival Les Stars De Demain); 1990 - Filha da Mãe; 2001 - Ganhar a Vida; 2004 - Noite Escura) e na televisão (1990 - Alentejo sem Lei; 1996 - Sai da Minha Vida). Premiada em 2002 e 2012 com o Globo de Ouro na categoria de Melhor Actriz de Cinema, com Ganhar a Vida e Sangue do meu Sangue de João Canijo. Foi homenageada no Festival de Santa Maria da Feira em 2004. Em 2012, foi considerada na Gala SPAUTORES, a melhor actriz de cinema, devido à sua interpretação no filme Sangue do meu Sangue
Movies23
Movie7.8DramaRomanceGeorges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Amour
2012 · 1.8K votes
Movie7.3DramaA film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Movie6.0HorrorMysteryWhen Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.
Movie6.7ComedyIn 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.
Movie4.8DramaIn a family-run hotel near the northern coast of Portugal, several women from the same family, spanning different generations, live together. Their relationship, poisoned by bitterness, struggles to survive in the decaying hotel. The unexpected arrival of a granddaughter in this claustrophobic space provokes turmoil and rekindles latent hatreds and accumulated resentments.
Movie8.0ComedyFamilyLisbon's traditional Saint Anthony's Weddings have hit rock bottom. At least, that's what Stardust, a major French multinational poised to take over the event, believes. Carmo and Valentim, two Lisbon City Hall employees who have spent more than 25 years organizing the celebrations, are given a harsh ultimatum: reinvent the event and turn it into a modern success, or lose their jobs. Directed by the filmmaker behind The Gilded Cage, Saint Anthony is a vibrant comedy and a heartfelt love letter to Lisbon. A celebration of human connection, identity, and cultural resilience in an increasingly globalized world.
Santo António - O Casamenteiro de Lisboa
2026 · 1 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaA disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
MovieDramaAfter years living in Lisbon, Castro's family makes the decision to move to the countryside.
Vá Cavar Batatas
2012
Movie7.1CrimeDramaMaria 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.
Movie6.1DramaA 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 · 46 votes
MovieDramaThe misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of some mysteries, form the perfect trilogy by the Countess of Ségur on education, social, religious, and political power. Desire and its oppression, violence and punishment, in short, the terrible loss combined with inevitable growth. Both adults and children will understand that precepts, rules, and prayers can tear nerves and blood apart.
MovieDramaProfJam wanted to show the contrast for his debut album and do it using the big screen
Profjam #000000
2020
Movie7.5RomanceDramaA 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 from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
Movie4.0DramaAn aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Movie6.8DramaAn anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.
Inquietude
1998 · 9 votes
Movie5.0RomanceDramaAdaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
Movie7.8DramaSummer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Agosto
1988 · 6 votes
Movie5.6DramaA hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.
Movie5.8RomanceHistoryThe tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
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Movie10.0ComedyDramaThings are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife with another woman, and their son becomes seriously hill.
Um Passeio no Parque
2000 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaEloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to be the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon—and is also Eloi’s daughter.
Movie6.5DramaDirector Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.
Series22
TV7.2Talk ShowIn Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Alta Definição
2009 · 4 votes
TV6.7DramaSoapCatarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by love.
TVDramaCrime
TV1.0Drama
TV6.7SoapOn her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.
TVDramaComedy
TV4.4ComedyDramaWith Algarve and South Africa as main stages, Paixão tells the story of a love that was destroyed by a lie. This is the story of a man determined to fight for justice and to recover ten years of his life and an unshakable love that resists time and all threats.
Paixão
2017 · 4 votes
TV5.0ComedyDramaIn the parish of Rio Meandro, two villages are at war over the construction of a dam that will submerge one of them: either Aldeia Velha or Aldeia Nova.
TV8.7FamilyDramaTelevision drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
TV9.0ComedyOs Malucos do Riso
1995 · 1 votes
TVTalk ShowComedyA combination of humor and analysis, which tries to explain reality in a simple, fun and factual way.
TV8.3DocumentaryDramaMarco Paulo
2023 · 3 votes
TVComedyA family by force... Paulo and Susana have been together for a few years now and decide to take the next step in their relationship by moving in together. But, as they're signing the deed to the house, her father, who was supposed to bring the check, ends up delivering the bad news that there is no money for the house, thus ending this young couple’s dream. However, Artur doesn’t want to come off as a bad parent, so he offers his attic to them so that they can start their life together. So, Paulo’s dream turns into an absolute nightmare, as their life as a couple is, in fact, shared with seven other people who are all very different from them and will start controlling their every move in a permanently tense environment. The Mata family, as it turns out, is all insane, the only exception being Susana. And even her will have a hard time convincing the rest of the family to accept and welcome their new member.
TV10.0Talk ShowComedyParabéns
1992 · 1 votes
TV8.2ComedySara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.
Sara
2018 · 8 votes
TV8.7A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa
2002 · 3 votes
TV8.6DramaComedyA story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.
Odisseia
2013 · 9 votes
TVSoap“Destino Maior” tells the story of Lúcia Cruz, a humble woman who believes she lost her daughter at birth, unaware that the baby was sold by her own stepmother to a wealthy family. Eleven years later, while struggling to support her sick sister and survive life's hardships, Lúcia crosses paths with Matilde, a girl in danger whom she ends up saving. This encounter leads her to Eduardo Ferreira do Vale, the child's adoptive father, who later hires her as his daughter's nanny—unaware that he is bringing mother and daughter face-to-face once again. As the bond between Lúcia, Matilde, and Eduardo deepens, a love story unfolds, shaped by secrets, guilt, and intertwined destinies.
Destino Maior
2026
TV10.0ComedySai da Minha Vida
1996 · 1 votes
TVDramaMaternidade
2011
TVDramaThe pilgramage of 11 women in 9 days and 400km to Fátima.
TV7.0WesternDramaSet in Alentejo in the mid-19th century, in the period following the Liberal Wars. In a sparsely populated and almost wild land, without shadow and without law, violence dictates the existence of Bando do Zarolho.
Alentejo Sem Lei
1991 · 2 votes