Manuela de Freitas Movies

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...

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...