The best Alexandra Lencastre’s movies

Alexandra Lencastre

Alexandra Lencastre

26/09/1965 (57 años)
We present our ranking of the best Alexandra Lencastre’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Alexandra Lencastre.
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The Dancer Upstairs

The Dancer Upstairs
6.9/10
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Disquiet

Disquiet
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/09/2010
  • Character: Centro da Mesa
Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.

Corruption

Corruption
3.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/2007
  • Character: Sofia's mother
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

Parque Mayer

Parque Mayer
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/12/2018
Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Mario Pintor (paintor) is writing a play in which a new actress (Deolinda) will star as the main role, while an already famous actor named Eduardo tries to seduce this recent arrival.

The Immortals

The Immortals
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/11/2003
  • Character: Maria Antónia
"Os Imortais" is without a doubt one of the best, or probably, the best Portuguese film ever made. It certainly is a landmark on the Portuguese cinema's scene; this movie his worth every minute. Every year, four ex-soldiers that call themselves "Os Imortais" (translated "The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate war deeds and to remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police about to retire, crosses their path and will spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But has he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could ever think of.

Cold Land

Cold Land
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/06/1992
  • Character: Ermelinda (voice)
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 furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.

The Mutants

The Mutants
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1998
  • Character: Social worker
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

2 Minutos

2 Minutos
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/09/2016
  • Character: Pessoa A

Poor George

Poor George
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/02/1993
  • Character: Ema (voice)
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.

O Delfim

O Delfim
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/03/2002
  • Character: Maria das Mercês
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.

Xavier

Xavier
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1991
  • Character: Carla
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Lovely Child

Lovely Child
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 04/05/1990
  • Character: Dalila (Lilita)
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Quero-te Tanto!

Quero-te Tanto!
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/04/2019
  • Character: Madame Ping Pong
A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.

O Leão da Estrela

O Leão da Estrela
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/11/2015
  • Character: Sra. Barata
The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?

Traffic

Traffic
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/12/1998
  • Character: banker's lover
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/03/2003
  • Character: the President
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

Julgamento

Julgamento
6.2/10
In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.

Gesto

Gesto
7.3/10
  • Release: 23/10/2011
Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community to which he belongs. At the same time, she lives her first love with Irina, a deaf young woman who doesn't understand why he wants to leave school and his country so much. For the first time in his life, Anthony's world is falling apart. But it may be worth losing the world to conquer the universe where deaf and hearing listen in the same gesture.

End of Conservation

End of Conservation
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/09/1990
  • Character: Secretária
A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.

The End of the World

The End of the World
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/06/1993
  • Character: Maria do Carmo
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

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