João Guedes
Know for: Acting
Born: 1921-07-03
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Francisca (1981)
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
A Bee in the Rain (1972)
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy...
The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir (1976)
Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and...
Enchanted Isles (1965)
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother,...
Change of Life (1967)
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...
Trails (1978)
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...
The Siren's Song (1983)
Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
O Defunto (1981)
Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena (1983)
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by...
Silvestre (1982)
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Dirty Laundry (2020)
Two millennials: Richard, a film studies student, and Ethan, a music producer preparing to launch his own startup—share a flat in Macau with a...
Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico (1963)
João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for...
Circle of Passions (1983)
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his...
Velhos são os Trapos (1981)
Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked...