Cast: Leonor Silveira
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Leonor Silveira. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Abraham's Valley
1993 · Movie · 212 min. · Portugal
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...
7.2
533 votes
7.2
533 votes
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
1990 · Movie · 110 min. · Portugal
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...
6.9
208 votes
6.9
208 votes
Journey to the Beginning of the World
1997 · Movie · 95 min. · Portugal
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...
6.9
408 votes
6.9
408 votes
Rage
2018 · Movie · 85 min. · Portugal
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.
6.9
75 votes
6.9
75 votes
Glória (TV Series)
2021 · Series · 40 min. · Portugal
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...
6.8
243 votes
6.8
243 votes
Oporto of My Childhood
2001 · Movie · 62 min. · Portugal
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...
6.8
252 votes
6.8
252 votes
Magic Mirror (Espelho mágico)
2005 · Movie · 137 min. · Portugal
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...
6.8
89 votes
6.8
89 votes
Living Bad
2023 · Movie · 124 min. · Portugal
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...
6.7
38 votes
6.7
38 votes
Gebo and the Shadow
2012 · Movie · 91 min. · France
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.
6.6
207 votes
6.6
207 votes
A divina comédia
1991 · Movie · 140 min. · Portugal
Direction Manoel de Oliveira
Cast María de Medeiros · Miguel Guilherme · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória
6.5
220 votes
6.5
220 votes
The Uncertainty Principle
2002 · Movie · 132 min. · Portugal
Direction Manoel de Oliveira
Cast Leonor Baldaque · Leonor Silveira · Isabel Ruth · Ricardo Trepa
6.4
203 votes
6.4
203 votes
I'm Going Home
2001 · Movie · 90 min. · France
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...
6.4
212 votes
6.4
212 votes
Bad Living
2023 · Movie · 127 min. · Portugal
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...
6.4
46 votes
6.4
46 votes
John From
2015 · Movie · 98 min. · Portugal
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....
6.4
358 votes
6.4
358 votes
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
2007 · Movie · 75 min. · Portugal
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...
6.3
103 votes
6.3
103 votes
Word and Utopia
2000 · Movie · 130 min. · Portugal
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.
6.3
223 votes
6.3
223 votes
The Cannibals
1988 · Movie · 98 min. · Portugal
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.
6.2
131 votes
6.2
131 votes
Anxiety
1997 · Movie · 110 min. · Portugal
Direction Manoel de Oliveira
Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · José Pinto · Irene Papas · Leonor Silveira
6.2
198 votes
6.2
198 votes
A Talking Picture
2003 · Movie · 96 min. · Portugal
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...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
The Letter
1999 · Movie · 107 min. · Portugal
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,...
6.1
315 votes
6.1
315 votes