Luís Galvão Teles

Luís Galvão Teles

Born on December 4, 1945, Luís Galvão Teles studied Law in Lisbon (1967) and Cinema in Paris (1968/70). Throughout his 50-year career in cinema, Luís Galvão Teles has held various positions as director, screenwriter, producer and distributor. He was an active participant in various film movements in Portugal before and after the revolution of April 25, 1974. That same year, he became one of the founding partners of CINEQUANON, a film cooperative that played a key role during the revolution. In 1997, he founded FADO FILMES, one of the most important Portuguese film production companies.

  • Title: Luís Galvão Teles
  • Popularity: 0.0461
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1945-12-04
  • Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Luís Galvão Teles Movies

  • 1982
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    Life Is Beautiful

    Life Is Beautiful

    8.1 1982 HD

    Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

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  • 2022
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    Just Retired 2

    Just Retired 2

    5.236 2022 HD

    Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the...

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  • 2007
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    DotCom

    DotCom

    6 2007 HD

    A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses...

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  • 1997
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    Women

    Women

    4.8 1997 HD

    Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

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  • 1997
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    Women

    Women

    4.8 1997 HD

    Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

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  • 2010
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    O Último Voo do Flamingo

    O Último Voo do Flamingo

    1 2010 HD

    Tizangara, Mozambique. After the peace agreement. A mystery. UN soldiers exploding. An investigation is begun and Massimo is appointed to solve the...

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  • 2004
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    O Outro Lado do Arco-íris

    O Outro Lado do Arco-íris

    3 2004 HD

    Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the...

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  • 2003
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    The Immortals

    The Immortals

    7.2 2003 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    As Armas e o Povo

    As Armas e o Povo

    7.3 1975 HD

    Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...

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  • 2004
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    Tudo Isto é Fado

    Tudo Isto é Fado

    5 2004 HD

    Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a...

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  • 1979
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    Death on the Tagus

    Death on the Tagus

    1 1979 HD

    A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile," Peter Ustinov and Jane Birkin, who are...

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  • 2012
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    Painless

    Painless

    6.2 2012 HD

    While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.

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  • 2016
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    Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

    Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

    6.5 2016 HD

    A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

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  • 2016
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    Ice

    Ice

    4.2 2016 HD

    The lives of two women intersect.

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  • 2006
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    Love for Sale

    Love for Sale

    7.516 2006 HD

    In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in...

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  • 2007
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    Another Man's Garden

    Another Man's Garden

    5.5 2007 HD

    Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to...

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  • 1975
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    A Procissão dos Bêbados

    A Procissão dos Bêbados

    1 1975 HD

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  • 2015
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    Grey and Black

    Grey and Black

    6.1 2015 HD

    The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious...

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  • 1982
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    Life Is Beautiful

    Life Is Beautiful

    8.1 1982 HD

    Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

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  • 2011
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    A Morte de Carlos Gardel

    A Morte de Carlos Gardel

    6.5 2011 HD

    Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to...

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  • 2016
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    Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

    Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

    6.5 2016 HD

    A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

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  • 2016
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    Ice

    Ice

    4.2 2016 HD

    The lives of two women intersect.

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  • 2016
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    Ice

    Ice

    4.2 2016 HD

    The lives of two women intersect.

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  • 2005
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    Glamour

    Glamour

    1 2005 HD

    Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One...

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  • 2005
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    Glamour

    Glamour

    1 2005 HD

    Luís is a professional killer and homosexual. In his specific universe, he is possessed by cocaine and an addiction to killing people. One...

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  • 1978
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    A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

    A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

    5.2 1978 HD

    In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance,...

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  • 1978
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    A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

    A Confederação: O Povo É Que Faz A História

    5.2 1978 HD

    In an imaginary future, Portugal consists of an association of states - North and South - with zones of specific influence. City under vigilance,...

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  • 2000
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    A Noiva

    A Noiva

    1 2000 HD

    A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his...

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  • 2018
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    The Great Mystical Circus

    The Great Mystical Circus

    4.3 2018 HD

    The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s...

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  • 2017
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    Praça Paris

    Praça Paris

    6.8 2017 HD

    Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator....

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  • 1975
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    Cooperativa Agrícola da Torre-Bela

    Cooperativa Agrícola da Torre-Bela

    1 1975 HD

    A documentary that describes the life and problems of one of Portugal's most celebrated agricultural cooperatives in the second year of the Carnation...

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  • 2002
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    My Voice

    My Voice

    6.5 2002 HD

    Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.

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  • 1974
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    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1982
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    Life Is Beautiful

    Life Is Beautiful

    8.1 1982 HD

    Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

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  • 1991
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    Retrato de Família

    Retrato de Família

    1 1991 HD

    Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she...

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  • 1976
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    Liberdade para José Diogo

    Liberdade para José Diogo

    8 1976 HD

    The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor...

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  • 1991
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    Retrato de Família

    Retrato de Família

    1 1991 HD

    Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she...

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  • 2006
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    The Night of the Sunflowers

    The Night of the Sunflowers

    6.311 2006 HD

    Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave...

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  • 1999
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    Jaime

    Jaime

    7 1999 HD

    A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced...

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  • 2017
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    Ermera Roses

    Ermera Roses

    1 2017 HD

    A few months before WW2 a family is torn apart: Maria goes to Timor, her brothers to Portugal. After Japan invaded Timor and Maria is sent to a...

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  • 2004
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    Tudo Isto é Fado

    Tudo Isto é Fado

    5 2004 HD

    Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a...

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  • 2007
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    DotCom

    DotCom

    6 2007 HD

    A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses...

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  • 2020
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    Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret

    Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret

    8 2020 HD

    In a small coastal African village, Jaki lives, in a house full of cousins ruled with an iron fist by grandmother Agnette and haunted by the...

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  • 2013
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    Black Diamonds

    Black Diamonds

    6.6 2013 HD

    Diamantes Negros tells the long journey undertaken by two young boys from Mali who arrive in Spain after being persuaded to pursue their dream of...

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  • 2020
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    Moço

    Moço

    7 2020 HD

    Confronted with his mother's infidelity and his father's emotional absence, João arrives at a sunset where he refuses to return home.

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  • 2007
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    Fados

    Fados

    7 2007 HD

    A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.

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  • 2025
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    Manas

    Manas

    8.324 2025 HD

    Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women...

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  • 2023
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    Âncora

    Âncora

    1 2023 HD

    Anna and Helena, both mothers, struggle with two forced separations. Anna, a Ukrainian refugee, tries to survive in Lisbon with her daughter Kamilla....

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  • 2023
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    Sagrada Família

    Sagrada Família

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2025
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    The Remnants of You

    The Remnants of You

    1 2025 HD

    Sara leaves New York, where she’s preparing for her first jazz concert, to return to her hometown in Huesca, Spain, after her father’s...

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  • 2025
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    Carnival Is Over

    Carnival Is Over

    7.6 2025 HD

    Regina and Valerio are a happy and sexy couple, casually enjoying their fortune from their luxurious villa on top of the Rio de Janeiro’s...

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  • 2001
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    História do Cinema Português

    História do Cinema Português

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1970
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    História do Cinema Português

    História do Cinema Português

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    História do Cinema Português

    História do Cinema Português

    6 1970 HD

    We are in 1320, in the newly formed country we call Portugal. Isabel, the Holy Queen, is the wife of Dinis, the king, and mother of Afonso, the heir,...

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  • 1970
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    História do Cinema Português

    História do Cinema Português

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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