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Filipe Vargas

Acteur

Films

Lines of Wellington

Lines of Wellington

Door Valeria Sarmiento

2011 | 151 min | Drama

27 september 1810. Na de overwinning op Napoleon's leger bij Serra do Bucaco trekken de troepen van Generaal Wellington zich terug. Hun doel: de numeriek superieure vijand naar Torres Vedras te lokken, waar zich de ondoordringbare versterkte linie van de Anglo-Portugese strijdkrachten bevindt. Om te voorkomen dat Franse troepen zich herbevoorraden wordt het hele gebied tussen de twee linies platgebrand. Opgejaagd door de Fransen is de bevolking genoodzaakt in het spoor van Wellington het door oorlog ...

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Door Manoel de Oliveira

2008 | 64 min

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down. On a train to the Algarve, Macário tells his story to a sympathetic woman he's just met. In flashbacks he arrives in Lisbon to work as an accountant and a broker for his uncle. From his office window, he sees a young woman, Luísa: he's intrigued and finds her beautiful; she holds a Chinese fan near her face. He arranges to meet her, and they fall in love. When he tells his uncle he wants to marry, ...