Adriano Luz
Popularity:4.691
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1959-04-09
Place of Birth:Porto, Portugal
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Also Known As:Adriano Manuel Vieira da Luz
Blood Curse (2006)
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon...
Traffic (1998)
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...
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...
Gesto (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...
Black Shoes (1998)
In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
Aljubarrota (2008)
A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation.
Blackpot (2023)
A reorganization within a crime syndicate.
Quarta Divisão (2013)
The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search...
Demain? (2011)
The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the...
Rosa Negra (1993)
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...
Tarde Demais (2000)
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...
Entre os Dedos (2008)
After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.
Lovely Child (1990)
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.
Get a Life (2001)
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...
The Murmuring Coast (2004)
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is...
The Left Behind (2022)
In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother...
Weekend (2007)
A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."
Pê (2022)
Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering...
Dialogues After the End (2023)
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized...
The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family (2014)
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend,...
Lines of Wellington (2012)
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Until Tomorrow, Comrades (2013)
Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom,...
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...
John From (2016)
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...
Your Face Will be the Last (2024)
Adaptation of the novel of the same name, by João Ricardo Pedro.
Banzo (2024)
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the...
Arabian Nights (2015)
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Camarate (2001)
In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on...
The Fatalist (2005)
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...
A Bomba (2002)
A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.
Cold Day (2009)
A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter...
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015)
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...
Yvone Kane (2015)
After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist...
A Falha (2002)
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author,...
Saint George (2017)
In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the...
451 Forte (2000)
Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda,...
Rage (2018)
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (2003)
One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island"....
Alex (1991)
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
Querida Mãe (2001)
The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
Bruno Aleixo's Film (2020)
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a...
Field of Blood (2022)
The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.
A Yellow Animal (2020)
Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This...
DotCom (2007)
A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses...
Equinox (2018)
I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure.
The Lone Wolf (2021)
One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
Que Mulheres Serão Estas? (2024)
A collection of three Portuguese short films by Ary Zara (Um Caroço de Avocado), Aurélie Oliveira Pernet (As Sacrificadas) and Pedro...
Cuba Libre (2022)
Cuba Libre tells the story of Annie Silva Pais, the daughter of the last PIDE director, Silva Pais. At the age of 30, Annie Silva Pais left her...
Codename: Sintra (2007)
The murder of an important politician leads the police to investigate a traditional family. But they already have its share of unsolved crimes,...
Remédio Santo (2011)
Remédio Santo is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 18 May 2011.
The Spy (2020)
The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal...
South (2019)
The series develops around cases of homicides that occurred during the summer, at the time of the economic and social crisis that affected Portugal.
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...
Alta Definição (2009)
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Glória (2021)
A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.
The American (2024)
Portugal. Early '80s. A group of criminals spreads terror across the Algarve, with more than twenty bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they...