António Fonseca
Know for: Acting
Born: 1953-10-14
Place of birth: Santo Tirso, Portugal
Also know as:
Primeira Obra (2023)
Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of...
Florbela (2012)
Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...
Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated (2022)
On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts....
John From (2016)
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...
My Name Is Bernadette (2011)
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from...
Pê (2022)
Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering...
Dialogues After the End (2023)
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized...
Star Crossed (2009)
Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread...
Wolf Child (2022)
In a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend. The legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a...
Sombras Brancas (2023)
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the...
Podia Ter Esperado por Agosto (2024)
Xavier, a village boy, falls for Laura, neighbor's granddaughter who visits her grandfather annually. Despite flirting at summer dances, Xavier...
The City and The Sun (2011)
A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...
Blood Lines (2018)
Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.
Cães Raivosos (2000)
A director is trying to stage the play “The Jew of Linz”, but his dementia and delirium can’t take the production past rehearsals....
Cinerama (2010)
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading...
Snu (2019)
The story about the romance of Snu Abecassis and the former Portuguese prime minister Sá Carneiro.
Nzinga, Queen of Angola (2013)
In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being...
Invisible Life (2019)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support...
The Mutants (1998)
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...
Blind Man's Bluff (1994)
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Gigola (2010)
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil....
The Dead Queen (2009)
Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love...
O Capacete Dourado (2007)
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...
Era Uma Vez Um Alferes (1987)
Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...
Crónica Parisiense (2011)
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world...
O Último Condenado à Morte (2009)
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
The Great Kilapy (2012)
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the...
A Imitação (2003)
An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the...
Querença (2004)
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to...
Light Drops (2002)
Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black...
Submission (2020)
Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant,...
Maria (2018)
Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning, while at night she works as a prostitute in Oporto's streets. Years ago her path crossed with...
The Lone Wolf (2021)
One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
The Uncertainty Principle (2002)
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Brother and Sister (2010)
They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old...