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Adelaide João

Date of birth: 1921-07-27

Place of birth: Lisboa, Portugal

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Maria da Glória Silva

Adelaide João

Biography

Movie Credits

Three Crowns of the Sailor
3.5

Three Crowns of the Sailor

1991-10-04

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on

Contrato
2.1

Contrato

2009-01-15

Peter McShade is a hitman. A job goes wrong when he kills the nephew of a Mafia Boss in Morocco.

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
2.3

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

2003-03-21

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

Francisca
3.5

Francisca

1981-12-03

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love result

No... Just Passing By
0

No... Just Passing By

2007-09-16

Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more impo

O Recado
0

O Recado

1972-03-24

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Franc

Blarghaaahrgarg
2.3

Blarghaaahrgarg

2010-10-01

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working,

Manhã Submersa
2.9

Manhã Submersa

1980-10-17

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants

Portugal... Minha Saudade
3.4

Portugal... Minha Saudade

1973-04-13

Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives i

A Cama
0

A Cama

1975-01-01

A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn

Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
3

Nós Por Cá Todos Bem

1978-03-04

In his childhood haunts, in the village of Várzea dos Amarelos, the filmmaker films peasant life wit

Impossível Evasão
0

Impossível Evasão

1983-10-12

Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it i

Oxalá
1.8

Oxalá

1981-05-08

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is r

No Trace of Sin
3.2

No Trace of Sin

1983-02-11

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at t

Fin de curso
2.5

Fin de curso

2005-07-15

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the

Terra Nova, Mar Velho
0

Terra Nova, Mar Velho

1983-03-03

Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing.

The Real Bargain
0.5

The Real Bargain

1965-03-09

The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it

O Desassossego de Pessoa
0

O Desassossego de Pessoa

1st Time 16mm
1

1st Time 16mm

2010-11-13

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings o

A Noite de Walpurgis
2.5

A Noite de Walpurgis

1983-07-20

A Noite de Walpurgis is a fantastic tale by Hugo Rocha, admittedly inspired by Goethe's Faust. The n

O Defunto
2.5

O Defunto

1981-01-28

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

O Visconde
2.5

O Visconde

1980-01-01

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibal

A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
2.5

A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena

1983-07-27

The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Profess

Alta Fidelidade
0

Alta Fidelidade

2000-04-21

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one roo

The End of the World
3.4

The End of the World

1993-06-10

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proport

The State of Things
3.2

The State of Things

1982-03-22

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman

The Circle
3.8

The Circle

1970-10-14

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves

Doomed Love
3.5

Doomed Love

1979-11-25

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

The Holy Alliance
0

The Holy Alliance

1980-03-19

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the ea

Marie
1.5

Marie

1993-03-31

Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.

On the Edge of the Horizon
2.6

On the Edge of the Horizon

1993-11-24

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years

The Donkey-Eared Prince
0

The Donkey-Eared Prince

1980-08-29

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignor

Just Pedro
1.7

Just Pedro

1972-06-08

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families,

Saint-Tropez Vice
2

Saint-Tropez Vice

1987-05-06

A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.

The King's Trial
2.9

The King's Trial

1990-01-19

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the f

Circle of Passions
1.2

Circle of Passions

1983-07-06

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his ny

A Falha
3.5

A Falha

2002-10-24

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But

Ensaio Sobre o Teatro
0

Ensaio Sobre o Teatro

2006-11-13

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the

Repórter X
0

Repórter X

1987-05-22

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist

Um Campista em Apuros
0

Um Campista em Apuros

1968-01-05

While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown

The Siren's Song
2.5

The Siren's Song

1983-07-13

Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from G

O Diabo Era Outro
0

O Diabo Era Outro

1969-11-05

Rui, a young musician, is writing poems for the vaudeville company.

O Viajante
0

O Viajante

1978-09-26

Abílio is a travelling salesman with as much ability to sell as he is inconvenient. He makes a stop

Life Is Beautiful
3.5

Life Is Beautiful

1982-02-19

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social tur

The Jester
3.4

The Jester

1987-10-31

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in

Aqui D'El Rei!
2.9

Aqui D'El Rei!

1992-04-24

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry

Um Funeral à Chuva
2.9

Um Funeral à Chuva

2009-03-14

A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to atten

Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara
0

Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara

2004-01-01

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by

Young Toscanini
3

Young Toscanini

1988-10-07

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Cats Don't Have Vertigo
3.5

Cats Don't Have Vertigo

2014-09-25

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in th

In That Neighbouhood
0

In That Neighbouhood

2002-01-01

Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
0

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!

1982-06-25

The village innkeeper Lejba Sibal and his pregnant wife Sura are threatened by Lejba's former farmha

Ruy Blas
2.8

Ruy Blas

2002-10-27

Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He order

Family Matters
1.3

Family Matters

1993-11-19

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his wo

Meus Amigos
2.5

Meus Amigos

1974-03-11

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to

April Showers
2

April Showers

2009-01-26

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst o

Exit-exil
3.5

Exit-exil

1986-04-02

A drama of passion and social conscience.

O Vestido Cor de Fogo
0

O Vestido Cor de Fogo

1985-09-07

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve

Moonfish
2.7

Moonfish

2000-09-29

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years

The Curse of Marialva
1

The Curse of Marialva

1991-11-14

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to l

Luísa e os Outros
0

Luísa e os Outros

1989-10-20

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now livin

The Fault
0

The Fault

1980-12-13

Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back

Dom Roberto
3.1

Dom Roberto

1962-05-30

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular distri

The Beggars
2.5

The Beggars

1988-04-06

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affectio

A Moura Encantada
0

A Moura Encantada

1985-12-17

A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “encha