Maria de Medeiros

Maria de Medeiros

1965-08-19 Lisbon, Portugal 109 Credits

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Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida (born August 19, 1965), better known as Maria de Medeiros, is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.

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No One Will Know

No One Will Know

2025

as Picon-Lafayette

Acting

In a shabby bar outside Paris, in the early hours of the morning, a few customers are having a last drink or a first coffee, when out of nowhere one o...

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

2025

6.6
Acting

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by...

Ange

Ange

2025

as Georgina

5.0
Acting

Arthur H portrays Ange, a rootless musician who feels a vital need to reconnect and make peace with his old friend Marco. Solea, his past love’s daugh...

The Portuguese House

The Portuguese House

2025

as Amalia

6.0
Acting

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a garde...

Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals

2024

as Lucia Monteiro

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...

Giorni Felici

Giorni Felici

2023

as Serena

4.0
Acting

Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is stricken by physical problems. Antonio, her former...

Easter

Easter

2023

Acting

Autobiographical documentary about an Easter vacation spent by the Ruivo’s family in the country town of Castelo de Vide, where the resurrection of Ch...

Les parents terribles

Les parents terribles

2022

Acting
Our Children

Our Children

2022

Editor, Screenplay, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

Vera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has lived in multiple South American countries. Her dau...

In the Country of Last Things

In the Country of Last Things

2020

as Victoria

4.6
Acting

A young woman ventures into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder to search for her journalist brother.

Moral Order

Moral Order

2020

as Maria Adelaide

5.7
Acting

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives...

Onyx: Kings of the Grail

Onyx: Kings of the Grail

2019

as Margarita Torres

6.0
Acting

Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia comes to the aid of the sultan, who, in gratitude, ...

Two Fridas

Two Fridas

2018

as Judith Ferreto

6.5
Acting

This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa ...

Black Is Beltza

Black Is Beltza

2018

as Amira (voice)

5.9
Acting

New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; bu...

Sea

Sea

2018

as Francisca

6.1
Acting

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and e...

The Broken Key

The Broken Key

2017

as Althea

3.3
Acting

In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession...

The Killer

The Killer

2017

as Madame Blanchard

6.1
Acting

In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.

100 Meters

100 Meters

2016

as Noelia

7.4
Acting

Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 runn...

Seances

Seances

2016

6.2
Acting

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a seri...

The Son of Joseph

The Son of Joseph

2016

as Violette Tréfouille

6.6
Acting

A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as...

Pacifique

2016

Acting

Short film.

The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room

2015

as Blind Mother / Clotilde

5.7
Acting

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they we...

Show Me Lisbon

Show Me Lisbon

2015

Acting

The best way to discover a city is through its people. 'Show Me Lisbon' reveals the city as seen by thirteen locals, or lisboetas - who were either bo...

Women Directors

Women Directors

2014

as Elvira Notari

Acting

Registe, talking on a blade is an Italian documentary about the Italian Cinema signed by women and about the pioneer of the Silent Cinema Elvira Notar...

The Masters of Suspense

The Masters of Suspense

2014

as Maria / Scarlet

6.4
Acting

Hubert Wolfe, bestselling author, suffers from the writer's block for a long time. Thus, he often used a ghost writer, the talented but taciturn Dany....

Pasolini

Pasolini

2014

as Laura Betti

5.7
Acting

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, sh...

Meetings with a Young Poet

Meetings with a Young Poet

2014

as Carole Thomas

Acting

A young poet, Paul Susser (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais), meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett (Stephen McHattie), in a small café. The two men...

I'm Not Dead

I'm Not Dead

2013

as Eléonore

Acting

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political scien...

The Gang of the Jotas

The Gang of the Jotas

2013

as Maria

7.3
Acting

The Gang of the Jotas is a wacky take on the famous suitcase mixup at the airport. Nils and Didier are arriving to the South of Spain to play in a bad...

Invisible World

Invisible World

2012

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Repare Bem

Repare Bem

2012

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Chicken with Plums

Chicken with Plums

2011

as Faringuisse

7.0
Acting

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrumen...

Holidays by the Sea

Holidays by the Sea

2011

as Madame Collier

4.4
Acting

A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

Journey to Portugal

Journey to Portugal

2011

as Maria

6.7
Acting

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...

Hitler in Hollywood

Hitler in Hollywood

2011

as Maria de Medeiros

6.2
Acting

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller unc...

Medea Miracle

Medea Miracle

2011

as L'amie de Médée

3.8
Acting

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends ...

David's Birthday

David's Birthday

2009

as Francesca

5.7
Acting

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of th...

The Story of Me

The Story of Me

2009

as Margherit

6.5
Acting

Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.

My Stars

My Stars

2008

as Adeline

5.0
Acting

Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for th...

Fallen Heroes

Fallen Heroes

2008

as Cécile

4.5
Acting

Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to re...

Midsummer Madness

Midsummer Madness

2007

as Livia

5.7
Acting

St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. A...

Je t'aime... moi non plus

Je t'aime... moi non plus

2007

Director

6.0
Directing

Documentary about the love-hate relationship between filmmakers and film critics with interviews made at Cannes Film Festival.

On The Ropes

On The Ropes

2007

as Teresa

4.2
Acting

Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.

Shelter Me

Shelter Me

2007

as Anna

4.9
Acting

Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the bord...

Call Me Elisabeth

Call Me Elisabeth

2006

as Mado

6.0
Acting

A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the ...

The Remains of Nothing

The Remains of Nothing

2005

as Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

6.4
Acting

Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.

Marlene de Sousa

Marlene de Sousa

2004

Acting

Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished when the kids were four years old (Marlene is now ...

Welcome to São Paulo

Welcome to São Paulo

2004

Director

5.6
Directing

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the ...

A Trip to the Orphanage

A Trip to the Orphanage

2004

5.8
Acting

While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. T...

The Lady of Lapa

2004

Acting

HAAAAAA…MY LOVE…VRRRRUMM…HHOOOO…PUM PUM…HELP…RA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA…TCHAM…GRRRRR…TCHAC…HÃÃÃAAN…UAUUUUU!!!!!!

The Saddest Music in the World

The Saddest Music in the World

2003

as Narcissa

7.0
Acting

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

I, Cesar

I, Cesar

2003

as Chantal Petit

5.5
Acting

Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance...

My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

2003

as Hairdresser

6.1
Acting

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

José Saramago. O Tempo de uma Memória

2003

as self

Acting

A portrait of José Saramago built from the Nobel prize winner's reflections on memory, literary creation, the passage of time and the finitude of life...

The Xango from Baker Street

The Xango from Baker Street

2001

as Sarah Bernhardt

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 Jenny Johnsen

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...

Porto of My Childhood

Porto of My Childhood

2001

as Miss Diablo

6.6
Acting

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Water and Salt

Water and Salt

2001

as Vera

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...

Man of the Crowds

Man of the Crowds

2001

as Dr. Giordano

Acting

Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

Honolulu Baby

Honolulu Baby

2001

as Margherita

5.0
Acting

Alberto Columbo is an engineer, sent on a useless mission in Melancias, an isolated village in Brazil, leaving behind Margherita, his unsatisfied, car...

Marafona

2001

as Maria Viola da Silva

Acting
The Art of Amália

The Art of Amália

2000

as Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances throug...

Second life

Second life

2000

as Laurie

5.2
Acting

Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his fr...

April Captains

April Captains

2000

as Antónia

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...

April Captains

April Captains

2000

Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

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

Les Infortunes de la beauté

Les Infortunes de la beauté

1999

as Céline

1.5
Acting

This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women ...

Babel

Babel

1999

as Alice

4.3
Acting

An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coe...

El sudor de los ruiseñores

El sudor de los ruiseñores

1998

as Goyita

Acting

A Romanian cellist emigrates to Spain where he becomes friends with a puppeteer who performs at El Retiro in Madrid. His dream is to work in an orches...

The Comedian

1997

as Antoinette Vervier

Acting

Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box.

Tempest in a Teapot

Tempest in a Teapot

1997

as Vita

6.0
Acting

American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-G...

Land of Storms

Land of Storms

1997

as Lena

3.0
Acting

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 195...

The Thousand Wonders of the Universe

The Thousand Wonders of the Universe

1997

as Président Blandine Brucker

4.7
Acting

A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants ...

Airbag

Airbag

1997

as Fátima do Espíritu Santo

6.5
Acting

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prosti...

Limited Edition

Limited Edition

1997

as Nancy Pickford

6.6
Acting

Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old...

Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission

Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission

1996

as Consuelo

8.0
Acting

Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during ...

News from the Good Lord

News from the Good Lord

1996

as Karenine

7.3
Acting

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, ...

Le Polygraphe

Le Polygraphe

1996

as Claude

5.6
Acting

In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers he...

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

1995

as Catarina Meneses

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, ...

Paraíso Perdido

1995

as Cristina Pratas

7.0
Acting

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a...

Two Brothers, My Sister

Two Brothers, My Sister

1994

as Maria

5.2
Acting

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy ...

The Detective and Death

The Detective and Death

1994

as Maria

3.6
Acting

In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot deceive or corrupt: death. Meanwhile, a detective t...

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

1994

as Fabienne

8.5
Acting

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime cape...

Poorly Extinguished Fires

Poorly Extinguished Fires

1994

as Tweedy Bird

Acting

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel ...

Jenseits der Brandung

1994

as Therese

Acting
Golden Balls

Golden Balls

1993

as Marta (La mujer, 45 kilos)

5.5
Acting

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

L'homme de ma vie

L'homme de ma vie

1992

as Aimee

2.0
Acting

A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end suffers for it. This is immensely watchable simply ...

Alcibíades

1992

1.0
Acting

A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his strategies to s...

Retrato de Família

Retrato de Família

1991

as Ofelia

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 Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

1991

as Sónia

6.8
Acting

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamaso...

Meeting Venus

Meeting Venus

1991

as Yvonne

5.9
Acting

Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the no...

Alex

Alex

1991

as Bárbara

6.5
Acting

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

Henry & June

Henry & June

1990

as Anais Nin

6.1
Acting

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexu...

1871

1871

1990

as Maria

4.8
Acting

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Where the Sun Beats

Where the Sun Beats

1989

as Laura (voice)

5.3
Acting

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister ...

Easy in Mind

Easy in Mind

1989

as Cecile

Acting

A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.

La Lectrice

La Lectrice

1988

as l'infirmière muette

6.2
Acting

A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores d...

Elvire Jouvet 40

Elvire Jouvet 40

1987

as Claudia

8.0
Acting

Between February and September 1940, Louis Jouvet worked with Claudia, ascending to the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris, the s...

The Jester

The Jester

1987

as Dulce (voice)

6.7
Acting

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells g...

Zigzags

1987

as Claire

Acting

Claire is a 16-year-old girl in search of herself. One evening she is bored and she joins her friend Françoise, to spend a nice evening together. But ...

Sorceress

Sorceress

1987

as Agnès

5.0
Acting

Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local...

Vertiges

1985

as Blanche

6.8
Acting

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on th...

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold

1984

5.5
Acting

Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

1984

as La première fugueuse (segment 1)

4.6
Acting

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

Silvestre

Silvestre

1982

as Sílvia / Silvestre

6.5
Acting

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

A Estrangeira

A Estrangeira

1982

as Ana as a Child

7.0
Acting

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Toto...

Résilience

N/A

Acting

Go West!

N/A

as Sofia Popovitch

Acting

1976: In order to leave the Soviet Union, the Mishkins undergo a "marriage of convenience" with their Jewish neighbors. But the trick only works at th...

Coffeehouse Mysteries

Coffeehouse Mysteries

N/A

as Singer

Acting

Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the city where death found its home. It is about prima...

Coffeehouse Mysteries

Coffeehouse Mysteries

N/A

Director

Directing

Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the city where death found its home. It is about prima...