Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

No One Will Know
2025
as Picon-Lafayette
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
2025
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
2025
as Georgina
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
2025
as Amalia
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
2024
as Lucia Monteiro
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member...

Giorni Felici
2023
as Serena
Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is stricken by physical problems. Antonio, her former...

Easter
2023
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
2022

Our Children
2022
Editor, Screenplay, Director
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
2020
as Victoria
A young woman ventures into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder to search for her journalist brother.

Moral Order
2020
as Maria Adelaide
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
2019
as Margarita Torres
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
2018
as Judith Ferreto
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
2018
as Amira (voice)
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
2018
as Francisca
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
2017
as Althea
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
2017
as Madame Blanchard
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
2016
as Noelia
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
2016
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
2016
as Violette Tréfouille
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
Short film.

The Forbidden Room
2015
as Blind Mother / Clotilde
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
2015
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
2014
as Elvira Notari
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
2014
as Maria / Scarlet
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
2014
as Laura Betti
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
2014
as Carole Thomas
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
2013
as Eléonore
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
2013
as Maria
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
2012
Director, Writer
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Repare Bem
2012
Director, Writer
The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Chicken with Plums
2011
as Faringuisse
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
2011
as Madame Collier
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

Journey to Portugal
2011
as Maria
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
2011
as Maria de Medeiros
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
2011
as L'amie de Médée
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
2009
as Francesca
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
2009
as Margherit
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
2008
as Adeline
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
2008
as Cécile
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
2007
as Livia
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
2007
Director
Documentary about the love-hate relationship between filmmakers and film critics with interviews made at Cannes Film Festival.

On The Ropes
2007
as Teresa
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.

Shelter Me
2007
as Anna
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
2006
as Mado
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
2005
as Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
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
2004
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
2004
Director
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
2004
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
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
2003
as Narcissa
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
2003
as Chantal Petit
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
2003
as Hairdresser
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
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
2001
as Sarah Bernhardt
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
2001
as Jenny Johnsen
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
2001
as Miss Diablo
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Water and Salt
2001
as Vera
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
2001
as Dr. Giordano
Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

Honolulu Baby
2001
as Margherita
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

The Art of Amália
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances throug...

Second life
2000
as Laurie
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
2000
as Antónia
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
2000
Director, Writer
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
1999
as Céline
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
1999
as Alice
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
1998
as Goyita
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
Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box.

Tempest in a Teapot
1997
as Vita
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
1997
as Lena
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
1997
as Président Blandine Brucker
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants ...

Airbag
1997
as Fátima do Espíritu Santo
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
1997
as Nancy Pickford
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
1996
as Consuelo
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
1996
as Karenine
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
1996
as Claude
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
1995
as Catarina Meneses
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
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
1994
as Maria
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
1994
as Maria
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
1994
as Fabienne
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
1994
as Tweedy Bird
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

Golden Balls
1993
as Marta (La mujer, 45 kilos)
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
1992
as Aimee
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
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
1991
as Ofelia
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
1991
as Sónia
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
1991
as Yvonne
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the no...

Alex
1991
as Bárbara
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Henry & June
1990
as Anais Nin
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
1990
as Maria
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Where the Sun Beats
1989
as Laura (voice)
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
1989
as Cecile
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.

La Lectrice
1988
as l'infirmière muette
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
1987
as Claudia
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
1987
as Dulce (voice)
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
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
1987
as Agnès
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
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
1984
Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1984
as La première fugueuse (segment 1)
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
1982
as Sílvia / Silvestre
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
1982
as Ana as a Child
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
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Go West!
N/A
as Sofia Popovitch
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
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as Singer
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
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Director
Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the city where death found its home. It is about prima...