Manuela de Freitas Movies

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets...

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...

Documentary about the Portuguese singer Camané and the process of creating one of fado's key works, revealing a rigorous search that allows...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Max Monteiro, has...

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he...

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.