António Pinhão Botelho

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António Pinhão Botelho

Born May 25, 1986 · Lisbon, Portugal (age 40)

Born in Lisbon, in 1986, António Pinhão Botelho is a Portuguese actor and director. Graduating from Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 2008. Pinhão Botelho released the short-film O Rio in 2014. By 2018 the director presented his first feature, Ruth, detailing an important moment in Eusébio da Silva Ferreira’s life – one of the most important portuguese soccer players. He was also assi…

Known For

The DomainThe Domain · 2019
The Domain
★ 7.02019
MovieDramaHistory
The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.
Maria VitóriaMaria Vitória · 2025
Maria Vitória
★ 10.02025
MovieDrama
Maria Vitória lives in a remote village in the Portuguese mountains and plays football on the local boys youth team. Determined to become a professional, she devotes all her free time to intense training with her father. Their routine is shaken by the unexpected return of her older brother, who left many years earlier after a tragic fire that took their mother’s life. As she prepares for the most important match of her life, Maria begins to question her father’s authority and gradually seeks a way to break free and take control of her own future.
The Black BookThe Black Book · 2018
The Black Book
★ 5.42018
MovieRomanceDrama
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
TrafficTraffic · 1998
Traffic
★ 5.71998
MovieComedy
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 after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
J.J. · 2026
J.
2026
MovieRomanceDrama
David keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.
Mysteries of LisbonMysteries of Lisbon · 2010
Mysteries of Lisbon
★ 7.22010
MovieDramaHistory
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
VileVile · 2012
Vile
2012
MovieFantasy
About a boy, the main character, without a name. It is about a present moment in his life and a past one and the film goes back and forth, with flashbacks and images from the present.
Um Filme em Forma de AssimUm Filme em Forma de Assim · 2022
Um Filme em Forma de Assim
★ 4.22022
MovieDrama
Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

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