Manuela de Freitas Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...