Joaquim de Almeida

Joaquim de Almeida

1957-03-15 São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal 103 Credits

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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born March 15, 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five. His ...

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Mercato

Mercato

2025

as Nascimento

6.1
Acting

Mercato takes us behind the scenes of today's soccer, a global industry with interests running into billions. Driss, a player agent, has seven days to...

Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals

2024

as José Manuel Durão Barroso

6.6
Acting

2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member...

Road House

Road House

2024

as Sheriff

7.0
Acting

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

O Último Animal

O Último Animal

2023

as Dr. Ciro

5.8
Acting
The Palace

The Palace

2023

as Dr. Lima

5.3
Acting

A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

Fast X

Fast X

2023

as Hernan Reyes

7.0
Acting

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, the...

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

2023

as Self

Acting

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

Missing

Missing

2023

as Javi

7.4
Acting

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuc...

Land of Dreams

Land of Dreams

2022

as Julian / Dr. Palmer

4.3
Acting

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control...

God Save the Queens

God Save the Queens

2022

as Hugo

2.0
Acting

A dramedy about four Drag Queens who find themselves at the very same therapy retreat. In an effort to overcome issues holding them back, they dissect...

Fatima

Fatima

2020

as Father Ferreira

7.2
Acting

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who t...

The Legion

The Legion

2020

as Paetus

6.0
Acting

Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his s...

Looking for Cesária Évora

Looking for Cesária Évora

2019

as self

6.0
Acting

Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, mu...

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

2019

as Self

Acting

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

Breaking & Exiting

Breaking & Exiting

2018

as Hank

6.1
Acting

Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from he...

Downsizing

Downsizing

2017

as Conference Director Dr. Pereira

5.4
Acting

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

The Hitman's Bodyguard

The Hitman's Bodyguard

2017

as Foucher

6.9
Acting

The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside an...

Diablo

Diablo

2016

as Arturo

4.9
Acting

A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

Our Brand Is Crisis

Our Brand Is Crisis

2015

as Castillo

5.9
Acting

Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

A Date with Miss Fortune

A Date with Miss Fortune

2015

as Jose

5.4
Acting

When a struggling writer meets a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and luck are both about to change. A romantic comedy ab...

Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

2014

as Joey the Junkman

5.6
Acting

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.

Of Mind and Music

Of Mind and Music

2014

as Dr. Alvaro Cruz

5.6
Acting

Dr. Alvaro Cruz, a neuroscientist, disillusioned by the death of his mother and his inability to help her, finds redemption and reward by helping Una ...

Atlas Shrugged: Part III

Atlas Shrugged: Part III

2014

as Francisco d'Anconia

4.5
Acting

In a post-apocalyptic America, the iron fist of the totalitarian government seeks to crush one mysterious man named John Galt, who has the power and i...

The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail

The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail

2014

as Comandante Vasco Moscoso de Aragão

6.7
Acting

Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many adventures travelling around the world as a capta...

Three-60

Three-60

2013

as Alberto Ibarguren

4.0
Acting

Guillermo (Raúl Mérida) is a passionate young college surf casually discovering an old photographic film. In the photographs are enigmatic images and ...

The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Cage

2013

as José Ribeiro

6.7
Acting

In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear litt...

Robosapien: Rebooted

Robosapien: Rebooted

2013

as Esperenza

5.3
Acting

A robotic boy and a human boy join forces to save their parents from the organization that funded the robot's creator.

Mamitas

Mamitas

2012

as Prof. Alexander Viera

5.6
Acting

A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.

Fast Five

Fast Five

2011

as Reyes

7.2
Acting

Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they...

Backlight

Backlight

2010

as Jay

6.2
Acting

Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where t...

Christopher Roth

Christopher Roth

2010

as Christopher Roth

4.7
Acting

A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own.

Holy Money

Holy Money

2009

as Mangini

Acting

Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineya...

Che: Part Two

Che: Part Two

2008

as President René Barrientos

6.7
Acting

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain

2008

as Nick Martinez

6.6
Acting

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic...

La conjura de El Escorial

La conjura de El Escorial

2008

as Escobedo

5.0
Acting

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

The Lovebirds

The Lovebirds

2008

as Marco Correia

6.5
Acting

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who ...

Oscar. The color of destiny

2008

1.0
Acting

"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Pica...

Call Girl

Call Girl

2007

as Mouros

6.0
Acting

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land...

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

2007

as Don Huertero

6.1
Acting

A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hosta...

La Cucina

La Cucina

2007

as Michael

4.2
Acting

A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".

The Heart of the Earth

The Heart of the Earth

2007

as Baxter

4.9
Acting

Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.

Moscow Zero

Moscow Zero

2006

as Yuri

3.3
Acting

In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about th...

Love and Debate

Love and Debate

2006

as Max

3.4
Acting

A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault...

The Celestine Prophecy

The Celestine Prophecy

2006

as Father Sanchez

5.1
Acting

A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a w...

Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II

Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II

2006

as Archbishop Oscar Romero

4.9
Acting

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatica...

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

2005

as Rafael

5.6
Acting

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fir...

The Life

The Life

2004

as Pierre

4.7
Acting

An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.

Il fuggiasco

Il fuggiasco

2003

as Lolo

7.0
Acting
The Immortals

The Immortals

2003

as Roberto Alua

7.1
Acting

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

Break of Dawn

Break of Dawn

2002

as Radman / Constantin

4.9
Acting

An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politi...

Sweat

Sweat

2002

as Noh

5.7
Acting

Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.

Behind Enemy Lines

Behind Enemy Lines

2001

as Admiral Juan-Miguel Piquet, Commander of NATO Naval Command

6.4
Acting

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets sh...

The Xango from Baker Street

The Xango from Baker Street

2001

as Sherlock Holmes

6.5
Acting

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve t...

Stranded

Stranded

2001

as Fidel Rodrigo

5.4
Acting

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of mi...

Water and Salt

Water and Salt

2001

as Marido

4.8
Acting

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, beca...

His Master's Voice

His Master's Voice

2001

as Oliveira

5.5
Acting

Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationalist terrorism, Charli works as a chauffeur for Oliv...

April Captains

April Captains

2000

as Gervásio

6.4
Acting

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salaz...

Inferno

Inferno

1999

as Xana

6.3
Acting

Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and r...

Vendetta

Vendetta

1999

as Joseph Macheca

5.8
Acting

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. ...

One Man's Hero

One Man's Hero

1999

as Cortina

5.3
Acting

One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the C...

No Vacancy

No Vacancy

1999

as Reynaldo

4.1
Acting

In a surreal motel in Los Angeles, the life of several sordid characters intertwine.

Cartoon Noir

Cartoon Noir

1999

as Narrator (Voice)

6.7
Acting

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins...

On the Run

On the Run

1999

as Ignácio

5.3
Acting

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from p...

Dollar for the Dead

Dollar for the Dead

1998

as Friar Ramon

5.3
Acting

In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in, Emilio Estevez assumes Clint Eastwoo...

La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha

1998

as Jose Guerra

4.7
Acting

A desperate writer fights for survival when the Mexican mob involves him in murder.

Tentação

Tentação

1997

as Father António

6.6
Acting

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a ...

Women

Women

1997

as Gigi

4.8
Acting

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

Fátima

Fátima

1997

as Avelino de Almeida, journalist

7.0
Acting

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

Corazón loco

Corazón loco

1997

as Emilio

5.0
Acting

Félix (Juanjo Puigcorbé), a likeable and careerist flat salesman, wants to be the commercial director of his company at all costs. The bad thing is th...

Tale About the Cat and the Moon

Tale About the Cat and the Moon

1997

as The Cat

6.0
Acting

A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tr...

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

1995

as Francisco

5.4
Acting

Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, ...

Desperado

Desperado

1995

as Bucho

6.9
Acting

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, ...

Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida

Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida

1995

as Narrator

Acting

A five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado.

Pereira Declares

Pereira Declares

1995

as Manuel

6.6
Acting

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil wa...

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

1994

as Col. Felix V. Cortez

6.7
Acting

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Only You

Only You

1994

as Giovanni

6.8
Acting

Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to m...

Uma Vida Normal

Uma Vida Normal

1994

as Miguel

6.5
Acting

Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.

El baile de las ánimas

El baile de las ánimas

1994

as Antonio

6.3
Acting
On the Edge of the Horizon

On the Edge of the Horizon

1993

as Voice of Spino (voice) (uncredited)

5.6
Acting

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

Amok

Amok

1993

as The lover

6.0
Acting

Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules o...

Shadows in a Conflict

Shadows in a Conflict

1993

as José

5.0
Acting

Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing h...

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

1993

as Francisco Frontaria

Acting

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunn...

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master

1992

as Luis de Ayala

6.2
Acting

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fasci...

A Passing Season

A Passing Season

1992

as Miguel

5.0
Acting

As he does at the end of every summer, Antonio climbs onto his roof to sweep out his chimney. From this vantage point, he sees that repairs have begun...

Cold Land

Cold Land

1992

as Leonardo

2.5
Acting

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 fox fur...

Aqui D'El Rei!

Aqui D'El Rei!

1992

as Manuel

5.8
Acting

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief...

Retrato de Família

Retrato de Família

1991

as Miguel Montenegro

Acting

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

The Dumbfounded King

The Dumbfounded King

1991

as Almeida

5.9
Acting

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, ...

El día que nací yo

El día que nací yo

1991

as Pelayo Menéndez

4.3
Acting

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora ...

Alex

Alex

1991

as Pedro

6.5
Acting

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Sandino

Sandino

1990

as Sandino

6.0
Acting

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

Les Deux Fragonard

Les Deux Fragonard

1989

as Honoré Fragonard

4.0
Acting

The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and ...

Disamistade

Disamistade

1988

as Sebastiano Catte

6.0
Acting

Terre sacrée

1988

as Mateo Elorduy

Acting

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.

Priceless Beauty

Priceless Beauty

1988

3.0
Acting

A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.

Repórter X

Repórter X

1987

as Reinaldo Ferreira

Acting

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

Good Morning, Babylon

Good Morning, Babylon

1987

as Andrea Bonnano

6.2
Acting

After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventu...

The Sun and the Moon

1987

Acting

Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican cultura...

Milan noir

Milan noir

1987

as Tremaine

Acting

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul

1983

as Leon

5.7
Acting

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to...

The Soldier

The Soldier

1982

as The Soldier's Force

5.5
Acting

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Epitaph

N/A

as Vince Castro

Acting

An ex-Army marksman's plan to avenge the murder of his parents brings him into business with a murder-for-hire organization and the C.I.A.

Breaking & Exiting

N/A

as Hank

Acting

While attempting a burglary, charming house thief Harry stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, which launches them both onto a dark...