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Fado Filmes

Lisbon, Portugal(approximate location)

A FADO FILMES tem contribuído para a internacionalização do cinema português, distribuindo os seus filmes pelo mundo inteiro. Um dos seus maiores sucessos FADOS (2007) foi vendido para mais de 100 países e atingiu o 1º lugar no top de audiências de documentários portugueses. No total, a FADO FILMES tem já mais de 11 milhões de espectadores no mundo inteiro e podemos rever muitos dos seus filmes em catálogos da plataforma portuguesa FILMIN, da HBO Max e nas televisões portuguesas.

From their site

Images from Fado Filmes’s own website.

Who works there

  • Filmes Foundedin 1997 by director and producer Luís Galvão

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
Founded1997company website
LocationLisbon, Portugal
Websitefadofilmes.pt
Emailinfo@fadofilmes.pt
Social
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Phone+35 121 302 1032
Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.5IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

10 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

65 wins from 172 nominations across all awards

Box office
$32,681

Combined US gross, 1 of 34 titles

The Night of the Sunflowers poster
Highest rated
The Night of the Sunflowers
2006
7.13,013 votes
The Great Mystical Circus poster
Lowest rated
The Great Mystical Circus
2018
5.2650 votes
Mostly
drama, short, comedy
Active
1997–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Best known for
Painless

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 20 of 34 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
43 seasons

2016–2025

Networks
  • RTP11
  • RTP Play1
  • Audience1

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 26 episodes.

Longest runningIce · 2 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 35

31 films · 3 TV titles

Titles per year34 titles · busiest 2025 with 4

34 titles across 29 years, averaging 1.2 a year. The last five years average 1.8 a year, above their long-run rate. 9 of those 29 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time10 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
468their average 6.5200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 6.8 across 4 titles. The 5 titles since 2012 average 6.3, 0.2 below their 6.5 overall. 4 of 10 rated titles sit above their 6.5 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Luís Galvão Teles4
  • Helder Faria2
Writers
  • Gonçalo Galvão Teles4
  • Suzanne Nagle2
Notable cast
  • Ivo Canelas2
  • João Tempera2
  • Nicolau Breyner2
Genres
  • Drama10 of 20
  • Short4 of 20
  • Comedy4 of 20
  • Crime4 of 20
  • Documentary2 of 20

Names appearing on two or more of Fado Filmes’s produced titles, across the 20 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with11 companies

Companies that appear alongside Fado Filmes on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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