Personal Info
Birth date
-
Gender
Female
Known for
Writing
Place of birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Also known as
-Mariana Ricardo
Biography
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Filmography
Tabu
7.062
Overview:
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
Grand Tour
6.7
Overview:
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
6.5
Overview:
In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
6.9
Overview:
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.
The Tsugua Diaries
6
Overview:
Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
7.1
Overview:
Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!
Our Beloved Month of August
6.8
Overview:
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...
John From
5.9
Overview:
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 Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
4 Hearts
6.8
Overview:
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.
The Face You Deserve
5.9
Overview:
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Arabian Nights
8
Overview:
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
Índia
6.5
Overview:
Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The Sword and the Rose
4
Overview:
Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact.
Technoboss
5.7
Overview:
The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by himself, carrying out his tasks — increasingly less real — as sales director for the company SegurVale. Sadness, resignation? Not with the songs Luís makes up behind the wheel, and that take over this film from start to finish.
Meanwhile
5.909
Overview:
A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach.
31 Means Trouble
5.2
Overview:
This is the way you hold the racket to play a forehand. Just move your arm back, the left shoulder facing the ball, step forward with your left foot, hitting the ball.”
Jealous White Men
NYR
Overview:
A wild, tragicomic adventure that satirizes history through dueling narratives by Jules Verne and his wife Honorine, each recounting young Charles Darwin’s journey to the Galápagos — a voyage teeming with pirates, pink iguanas, and a riotous mix of chaos, discovery, and revolt.
Wild Haggis
5
Overview:
A ten year-old boy faces up to the struggles of life in a summer camp. It’s not easy to be ignored by the girl of his heart or seeing his dormitory vandalised by adolescent thugs. Fortunately, in the forest, the wild haggis insists on remaining out of sight.
Savagery
NYR
Overview:
A chronicle of a bloody war that pitted the inhabitants of the hamlet of Canudos, led by their prophet, against the army of the young Brazilian Republic in 1897.
Redemption
7.1
Overview:
On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13, 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6, 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3, 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?
The Gift of Tears
3
Overview:
A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.
Ramiro
5.8
Overview:
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his faithful drinking companions and his neighbors: a pregnant teenager and her grandmother recovering from a stroke. He would gladly continue living this quiet and somewhat anachronistic routine if events worthy of a soap opera did not invade his bubble.Friends after Dark
7
Overview:
In the year when cinema was paralyzed in Portugal due to lack of funding, a group of friends embarks on a mysterious expedition to see wolves in their natural habitat, but ends up being trapped in a house without much to do. The night goes by and the expedition’s main goal seems increasingly compromised until the biologist who promised them adventures shows up.Acting
2021The Tsugua Diaries as Unknown
2019Technoboss as Enfermeira
2016Friends after Dark as Mariana
2016John From as Coro
2012Tabu as Explorer's Wife / Aurora's Friend
2010The Sword and the Rose as David
2006Canticle of All Creatures as Saint Clare of Assisi
200331 Means Trouble as Unknown
2000Christmas Inventory as Unknown
1999Meanwhile as Rita
Writing
TBAJealous White Men ... Writer
TBASavagery ... Screenplay
2024Grand Tour ... Screenplay
2022Índia ... Screenplay
2021The Tsugua Diaries ... Screenplay
2019Technoboss ... Screenplay
2018Ramiro ... Writer
2016John From ... Writer
2015Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One ... Screenplay
2015Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One ... Screenplay
2015Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One ... Writer
2015Arabian Nights ... Screenplay
2013Redemption ... Writer
2012The Gift of Tears ... Writer
2012Tabu ... Screenplay
2010The Sword and the Rose ... Writer
2008Our Beloved Month of August ... Writer
Sound
2013Wild Haggis ... Music Director
20094 Hearts ... Music
2008Our Beloved Month of August ... Music
2006Canticle of All Creatures ... Music
2005The Face You Deserve ... Original Music Composer
Editing
2013Redemption ... Editor