Cast: Vasco Santana

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Vasco Santana. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


A Song of Lisbon

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · Portugal

Direction José Cottinelli Telmo

Cast Maria Albertina · Silvestre Alegrim · Henrique Alves · Fernanda Campos

Plot Vasco (Vasco Santana) is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts from Trás-os-Montes, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself...

7.0

77 votes

7.0

77 votes

The Cruel Father

1941 · Movie · 114 min. · Portugal

Direction António Lopes Ribeiro

Cast Vasco Santana · Francisco Ribeiro · Leonor Maia · Barroso Lopes

Plot Everything is on the way for the annual performance of the Grandella's Store Theatre Group, "Os Grandelinhas", with the play "O Pai Tirano". That's when Chico Mega discovers that his...

6.9

23 votes

6.9

23 votes

O Pátio das Cantigas

1942 · Movie · 105 min. · Portugal

Direction Francisco Ribeiro

Cast Antonio Vilar · Maria das Neves · Vasco Santana · Francisco Ribeiro

Plot A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry and love.

6.8

37 votes

6.8

37 votes

Famalicão (S)

1941 · Documentary · 24 min. · Portugal

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Vasco Santana

Plot Famalicão is the railway centre in the north of the country, where buttons and clocks are made. The film wanders through the town's picturesque streets, and images of the church...

6.4

36 votes

6.4

36 votes

Camões

1946 · Movie · 118 min. · Portugal

Direction José Leitão de Barros

Cast Antonio Vilar · José Amaro · Igrejas Caeiro · Paiva Raposo

Plot The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

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O Costa d'África

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · Portugal

Direction João Mendes

Cast Vasco Santana · Laura Alves · Costinha · Erico Braga

Plot Costa is travelling from Africa to London to see his nephew Amadeu to check by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending...

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O Dinheiro dos Pobres

1956 · Movie · 118 min. · Portugal

Direction Arturo Semedo

Cast Vasco Santana · Antonio Vilar · Isabel de Castro · Maria Brandão

Plot Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his carefree ways, and commits a...

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Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · Portugal

Direction Perdigão Queiroga

Cast Amalia Rodrigues · Vasco Santana · Antonio Vilar · Tony D'Algy

Plot Ana Maria was a modest young woman who loves Júlio, her guitarist. But when she becomes a famous singer and Júlio, feeling abandoned by her, decides to go to the...

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Ribatejo

1949 · Movie · 115 min. · Portugal

Direction Henrique Campos

Cast Virgilio Teixeira · Eunice Muñoz · Vasco Santana · Alves da Costa

Plot It is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the arenas of bulls.

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Eram Duzentos Irmãos

1952 · Movie · 100 min. · Portugal

Direction Armando Vieira Pinto

Cast Silva Araújo · Manoela Arriegas · Alves da Costa · Alda de Aguiar

Plot A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter the navy. A girl accepts to show a fake love interest...

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Confissões de Um Analfabeto (S)

1953 · Movie · 18 min. · Portugal

Direction Carlos Marques

Cast Vasco Santana

Plot A lecturer speaks to his audience (the camera) against the several sorts of illiterate people, the worst being those who were lazy in their youth and refused to attend school....

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Lisboa

1930 · Documentary · 125 min. · Portugal

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