João D'Ávila
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1934-07-25
Place of Birth:Lisbon, Portugal
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Portugal S.A. (2004)
The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.

Fátima (1997)
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in...

President's Target (1989)
The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.

Maria's Hours (1979)
Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of...

Crime em Nova Iorque (2015)
On January 8, 2011, journalist and social columnist Carlos Castro, 65, was found dead in a hotel room in New York City (USA). The killer, Renato...

1st Time 16mm (2010)
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon,...

The Immortals (2003)
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and...

O Princípio da Sabedoria (1976)
In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the...

Operation Autumn (2012)
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

Nights (2000)
The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a couple lost in drugs. Nights can be seen as the story of...

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (1993)
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

Kiss and Cry (1995)
Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.

One Foot in the Algarve (1993)
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them...

Fado, Major and Minor (1995)
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

The Last Nazi Hunter 2 (2015)
After a hard life of chasing nazis, Jacob Cohn is on his death bed. Recently, he found that one of the most bloodiest nazis, who almost killed him in...

Fuga (1999)
Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what...

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere (2003)
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a...

Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2005)
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby...

Lourdes (2000)
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes...

Cold Land (1992)
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...

Fernando Lanhas - Os 7 Rostos (1988)
Documentary dedicated to the plastic artist Fernando Lanhas

Fatima (2020)
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin...

Off Season (1992)
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...

Behind Doors (2019)
In the small town of Reguengo Grande, Portugal lives Bênção, known as the living saint. People come from all over the world to be...

O mistério da boca do inferno (1989)
The secret history of a curse upon an astrologer and esoteric initiate, who was a Portuguese poet and essayist: Fernando Pessoa.

Lisbon Los Angeles - Without Destination (1970)
A photographer travels around Portugal, Madrid and LA and finds a bunch of exquisite characters.