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João Pedro Bénard
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 34
Film: 33 (97%)
Television: 1 (3%)
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Filmography
Original title: No Silêncio da Vingança
2025
An old gunman travels the Alentejo in search of revenge, accompanied by the mute daughter of one of his targets. ... view
Character:
Manuel Brasil
2024
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who ar ... view
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Dr. Figueira
2024
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evol ... view
Character:
Horace Seagrave
Sep 2023 (first aired)
Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose exi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
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 rest of ... view
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Nurse / Al Capone
Original title: O Teu Peso Em Ouro
2022
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitte ... view
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Norberto
2021
'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain un ... view
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2019
Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a ... view
Character:
Portuguese inspector
Original title: Raiva
2018
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his r ... view
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Corona
2018
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and ... view
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Professor
2017
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. H ... view
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Nuno
Original title: Longe da Amazónia
2017
In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from his Philosophical Journey are the artif ... view
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Narration (voice)
2017
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it ... view
Character:
Sr. Silva
Original title: O Homem de Trás-os-Montes
2017
In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories for his new documentary. One day, the ... view
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Original title: Estive em Lisboa e Lembrei de Você
2015
"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with ... view
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Original title: João Bénard da Costa: Outros Amarão as Coisas Que Eu Amei
2015
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Fi ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado
2015
Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious ... view
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Humberto
Original title: Se Eu Fosse Ladrão... Roubava
2013
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothe ... view
Character:
Homem de Fafe
Original title: A Vingança de Uma Mulher
2012
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Rober ... view
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Narrator
Original title: Viagem a Portugal
2011
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the onl ... view
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Original title: 4 Copas
2009
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside t ... view
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Bar do Espanhol: Nando, the Barman
2009
A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too. All this exists / All ... view
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Original title: Daqui P'rá Frente
2008
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and ... view
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Homem cena de violência doméstica
Original title: A Cara que Mereces
2005
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounde ... view
Character:
medic
Original title: A Conquista de Faro
2005
Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark a ... view
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Recepcionist
Original title: Vanitas
2004
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isa ... view
Character:
Augusto
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 di ... view
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Adriano / Fagundes
Original title: Der Gläserne Blick
2003
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of ... view
Character:
Der Fischer
Original title: O Rio do Ouro
1999
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat ope ... view
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Original title: O Som da Terra a Tremer
1990
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the br ... view
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Original title: Recordações da Casa Amarela
1989
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's wate ... view
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Dairy clerk
Original title: Relação Fiel e Verdadeira
1989
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between ru ... view
Character:
Jogador de Póquer