Cast: Manuela de Freitas

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast António Sequeira Lopes · Cristina Hauser · Elsa Wallencamp · Antonio Costa

Plot TV miniseries (1979). 6 episodes. A story set in the beginning of the XIX century about a doomed love between to people from different worlds and its impact in their...

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast José María Branco · Manuela de Freitas · Miguel Gonçalves · Sara Marques

Plot Loosely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who didn't write anything and who blows at night the breath of frozen air. These...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Manuela de Freitas · Maria de Saisset · Bárbara Vieira · Alberto Inácio

Plot Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Maria Gonçalves · Bruno Terra · Sophie Balabanian · Manuela de Freitas

Plot An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and João can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Teresa Menezes · Diogo Dória · Mario Barroso · Manuela de Freitas

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Laura Morante · Philip J. Spinelli · Manuela de Freitas · Gerd Volkmar

Plot When Laura Rossellini decides to leave Portugal with her children, she is absolutely convinced that she will never return and that she is leaving forever behind a "dead country". However,...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Manuela de Freitas · Luís de Sousa Costa · Francisco Domingues · Carmen Duarte

Plot A poetic journey in the heart of Portugal. They were two: a man and a woman that met and travelled down from Trás-os-Montes to the sea. Legends and steep rocks,...

Direction João César Monteiro

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

Plot 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...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Cláudia Teixeira · João César Monteiro · Manuela de Freitas · Raquel Ascensão

Plot João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast João César Monteiro · Rita Pereira Marques · Joaquina Chicau · Manuela de Freitas

Plot João Vuvu, widowed with no family, except for one son who is in prison, lives in a house of a substantial value in one of the old areas of Lisbon....

Direction João César Monteiro

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

Plot 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...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Hugues Quester · Pierre Clémenti · Joana Azevedo · Jean Watan

Plot Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

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

Plot 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...

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Clara Riedenstein · Marcello Urgeghe · Ingrid Caven · Rita Durão

Direction António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast Pedro Oliveira · Ana Zanatti · Teresa Madruga · Isabel Mota

Plot Álvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, finds a man that killed himself in a car after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued...

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Caroline Chaniolleau · Yves Afonso · Laurinda Alves

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Maria Barroso · Luis Miguel Cintra · Marques D'Arede · Manuela de Freitas

Plot Lisboa Cultural is part of a series on the cultural capitals of Europe, produced by the Rome-based Trans World Film and intended for airing on television. Oliveira was not asked...

Direction Joaquim Sapinho

Cast Carla Bolito · Marco Delgado · Francisco Nascimento · Orlando Sérgio

Plot The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's, belonging to the...

Direction Jorge Silva Melo

Cast Christian Patey · Olivier Cruveiller · Marie Carré · Manuela de Freitas

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Manuela de Freitas · João Perry · Dalila Rocha · Catarina Coelho

Plot On his first feature, Monteiro analyzes a family: the relationships between father and daughter, husband and wife, and also the relationship between the head of the family and his wife's...