
Raul Solnado
Actor · 1929 – 2009 · Lisbon, Portugal
Raul Augusto de Almeida Solnado (19 October 1929, Lisbon - 8 August 2009) was a popular Portuguese actor and comedian. He was born in Lisbon's Madragoa neighborhood, and first appeared on stage there. In his long career, he developed many comic pieces that have become classics. His humour was, at the time (especially considering Portugal was still under the dictatorial Salazar regime), both unexpected and fresh. It included a lot of nonsense, and stories making fun of daily life. He often played an ingenuous poor man, whose life was neither good or bad. Solnado hosted Portugal's first talk show, in 1969, alongside Carlos Cruz and Fialho Gouveia. The show, called Zip Zip is still considered a landmark in the history of Portuguese television. He died on 8 August 2009 of heart disease.
Movies22
Movie9.0Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
1975 · 1 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaIn Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Movie5.8CrimeDramaA powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Call Girl
2007 · 26 votes
Movie6.8DramaSet four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Movie6.6DramaHistoryAt the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Aqui D'El Rei!
1992 · 5 votes
Movie6.5DramaEduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.
Sangue Toureiro
1958 · 2 votes
Movie10.0Perdeu-se um Marido
1957 · 1 votes
Movie7.6DramaIn Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories.
Requiem
1998 · 14 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceO Noivo das Caldas
1956 · 1 votes
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A biographical documentary, which shows Raul Solnado in the first person, with testimonies from Artur Ramos, Maria do Céu Guerra, Leonor Xavier, among others.
Movie9.0DocumentaryA look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.
Vasco Santana: O Bom Português
1998 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceThe characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
1961 · 2 votes
Movie6.4DramaComedyIn a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who stops talking—see the newcomers alter the dynamics, relationships and aspirations of the house's residents.
América
2011 · 9 votes
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Ar, Água e Luz
1956
Movie7.3ComedyFantasyLuisa and Manuel begin the existence of married, having only their dream and hope. He judges himself a Tarzan in the jungle of life, able to face all the threats, next to his companion.
O Tarzan do 5º Esquerdo
1958 · 3 votes
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceLola 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 all sorts of problems pave their way.
Martes y trece
1962 · 8 votes
Movie10.0DramaMelancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both women already married, and his life marred by problems.
A Garça e a Serpente
1952 · 1 votes
MovieComedy
Movie6.0CrimeDuke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder.
Duke
1988 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaTV MovieIn 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
Facas e Anjos
2000 · 2 votes
Movie8.5ComedyDramaA sentimental comedy about... toothpicks. The hero manufactures and exchanges toothpicks for countless goods because he ignores the value of money. "The Millionaire" is his nickname. He runs around the city, happy, meeting friends: Carlitos, the newsboy, and Celeste, the lemon seller. His innocent life contrasts with the city, full of traps and dangers.
O Milionário
1962 · 2 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaJoão Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...
Dom Roberto
1962 · 6 votes
Series10
TVDramaIlha dos Amores
2007
TV9.0SoapDramaAjuste de Contas
2000 · 1 votes
TV9.0DramaSoapA Banqueira do Povo
1993 · 1 votes
TV10.0Talk ShowComedyParabéns
1992 · 1 votes
TV10.0Comedy
TVTalk ShowJá Está
1987
TV8.0Talk ShowZona+
1994 · 1 votes
TVTalk ShowJoaquim Letria
1990
TV7.0ComedyMeu Querido Avô
1997 · 1 votes
TVDocumentaryComedyA four episode documentary about the fifty years of comedy in Portuguese television.