Cast: Luis Miguel Cintra

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Clara Joana · Zita Duarte · Jorge Silva Melo

Synopsis The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of its culture and its visions of life and hereafter.

Direction Jean-Charles Fitoussi

Cast Antoine Chappey · Clémentine Baert · Luis Miguel Cintra · Antoine Michot

Synopsis While some people disappear forever, Antoine only exist one day out of every two. And what happens? He meets Clémentine, who's living full time.

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Rita Durão · João César Monteiro · Joana Azevedo · José Airosa

Synopsis Two shadow-like figures meet in an old, icy park when all seems lost. They are Deus and a Messenger from God. The Messenger gives the Crook (which is the temporary state of poor Joao de Deus) a suitcase full of...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast María de Medeiros · Teresa Madruga · Luis Miguel Cintra · Jorge Silva Melo

Synopsis In order to expand his domain, Dom Rodrigo, plans the wedding of one of his daughters with a young and rich neighbour: Dom Paio. He has two daughters: Silvia, born in wedlock and Suzana who is illegitimate. He goes to...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Synopsis 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 Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Eva Truffaut · Pierre Léon · Rita Durão · Anna Leppänen

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Fabienne Babe · Canto e Castro · Francesca Prandi · Rita Blanco

Synopsis Samuel has made his way to a pier along the river and plans to jump in and drown himself. He is standing there gathering his courage, when he is accosted by an older man, a sailor who has come there...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast João César Monteiro · Manuela de Freitas · Sabina Sacchi · Ruy Furtado

Synopsis The story concerns the irrepressible João de Deus, an ill-kempt, lusty and none-too-honest resident of Violeta's boarding house, which happens to have yellow walls. João, who has no visible means of support, is in his fifties, and is not above...

Direction Pedro Costa

Cast Pedro Hestnes · Nuno Ferreira · Inês de Medeiros · Luis Miguel Cintra

Synopsis Little is explained in this enigmatic drama. Vincente (Pedro Hestnes Ferreira) and Nino (Nuno Ferreira) have learned to cope so well with their father's frequent unexplained absences that when he apparently disappears for good, they have no difficulty continuing as...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Teresa Madruga · Mario Barroso · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória

Synopsis Portrait of the last years of the XIX century's Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Synopsis 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 into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at...

Direction Sergio Trefaut

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

Synopsis 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 Costa

Cast Inês de Medeiros · Isaach de Bankole · Edith Scob · Pedro Hestnes

Synopsis This rather esoteric drama is filled with poetic imagery. It is notable for it's beautiful photography as it follows a devoted nurse from her Portuguese home to the strange Cape Verde islands. Mariana is the nurse assigned to care for...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Synopsis 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 was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Patricia Barzyk · Anne Consigny · Jean-Pierre Bernard

Synopsis During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Synopsis 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 María de Medeiros

Cast Stefano Accorsi · María de Medeiros · Joaquim de Almeida · Frédéric Pierrot

Synopsis Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Synopsis 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 his ever-loving wife, he has witnessed the changes in time...