Cast: Leonor Silveira

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Cecile Sanz de Alba · Rui de Carvalho

Plot Ema realises that she has the power to make things happen. Although she is married she takes three lovers, but all she gains is disillusionment...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória · Miguel Guilherme · Luís Lucas

Plot Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jean-Yves Gautier · Leonor Silveira · Diogo Dória

Plot Voyage To The Beginning Of The World brings together 90-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni, in what would be his last film. Playing a filmmaker...

Direction Sergio Trefaut

Cast Hugo Bentes · Isabel Ruth · Leonor Silveira · Caio Cesar

Plot A visual story about hunger, misery and exploitation in southern Portugal in the 1950's and about the growing rage and strength building up upon people.

Direction Pedro Lopes · Tiago Guedes

Cast Miguel Nunes · Matt Rippy · Stephanie Vogt · João Arrais

Plot In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, João Vidal will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Agustina Bessa-Luís · María de Medeiros · Jorge Trêpa · Leonor Silveira

Plot Nostalgic documentary by the nestor of (Portuguese) cinema abut his birthplace Porto with music, photos, historic pictures and acted memories of childhood. Erudite, charming film. When Oporto shared cultural capital...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Ricardo Trepa · Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Duarte de Almeida

Plot Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire...

Direction João Canijo

Cast Nuno Lopes · Filipa Areosa · Rita Blanco · Leonor Silveira

Plot Five women are running an old hotel and trying to save it from inexorable decay. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend: a couple bears the wounds of a...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Michael Lonsdale · Claudia Cardinale · Jeanne Moreau · Leonor Silveira

Plot Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast María de Medeiros · Miguel Guilherme · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Baldaque · Leonor Silveira · Isabel Ruth · Ricardo Trepa

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Michel Piccoli · Catherine Deneuve · John Malkovich · Antoine Chappey

Plot After the deaths of his wife, daughter and son-in law, an ageing theatre actor cares for this grandson in Paris. When an American director miscasts him an adaptation of Joyce's...

Direction João Canijo

Cast Anabela Moreira · Rita Blanco · Madalena Almeida · Cleia Almeida

Plot Five women are running an old hotel, trying to save it from inexorable decay. A long-standing, perhaps irreparable, conflict weighs down on them: they are mothers who are unable to...

Direction João Nicolau

Cast Julia Palha · Clara Riedenstein · Filipe Vargas · Leonor Silveira

Plot Rita has it all. She is 15 years old and the summer is ahead of her. She floods the balcony floor and splashes about while soaking up the mighty sun....

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Ricardo Trepa · Manoel de Oliveira · Leonor Baldaque · Maria Isabel de Oliveira

Plot From the 1940's to today, Manuel Luciano has tried to discover the true identity of Christopher Columbus. In his multiple trips between Portugal and the United States, always joined by...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Lima Duarte · Luis Miguel Cintra · Ricardo Trepa · Miguel Guilherme

Plot The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Leonor Silveira · Diogo Dória · Oliveira Lopes

Plot A lovely maiden falls in love with an upper-class gentleman—but discovers his body is entirely mechanical—in Oliveira’s surreal musical collaboration with the Lisbon Opera House.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · José Pinto · Irene Papas · Leonor Silveira

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Silveira · Catherine Deneuve · Irene Papas · Filipa de Almeida

Plot Rosa Maria, a young History professor, sets out with her daughter Maria Joana on a cruise that will travel through the Mediterranean to Bombay , India, where they will meet...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Chiara Mastroianni · Pedro Abrunhosa · Antoine Chappey · Leonor Silveira

Plot Having lived through her first disillusion in love, Mademoiselle de Chartres, agrees to marry Jacques de Clèves, a renowned doctor, even though she does not love him. In her heart,...