Manuela de Freitas Movies

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: João César Monteiro

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: João César Monteiro

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teresa Menezes

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Luís

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her...

Genre: Crime

Cast: María Santiago

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Patey

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Camané

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Morante

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: João César Monteiro

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugues Quester

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carmen Duarte

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luis Albuquerque

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Mário Branco

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: João César Monteiro

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

Genre: History

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: António Sequeira Lopes

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rita Blanco

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. The fast changing city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Bolito

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria de Saisset

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Gonçalves

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

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Cast: Manuela de Freitas

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Manuela de Freitas

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Riedenstein

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

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Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monica Calle

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Hestnes

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s...

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Cast: Canto e Castro

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Zanatti

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be

Genre: History

Cast: Sinde Filipe

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra