Manuela de Freitas

A nova esposa de Lord von Ketten está determinada a transformar a residência familiar do marido, um castelo inóspito na Itália, num verdadeiro lar. Quando ele parte para a guerra, permanecendo ausente por 11 longos anos, ela cria sua própria vida através de várias atividades artísticas e esportivas.

Manuel Teixeira Gomes. Um escritor de óptima literatura erótica é eleito Presidente da República –caso único no mundo. Promove políticas reformistas, apoia os operários, combate a banca. Mas, ao fim de 26 meses diz: Basta! Estou farto. Qual é o primeiro barco a sair de Lisboa? Não é daqui a um mês, é já. Zeus? É um cargueiro? Não me importa, hão-de levar-me. Não me interessa para onde vão. Parto sem um papel, nada que me lembre a minha vida de escritor ou de Presidente. E assim, aos 65 anos, muda de vida. Vai para o Norte de África, convive com os nómadas do deserto, instala-se na Argélia, e aí morre 15 anos depois.

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

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 prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

Laura não sabe o que fazer com a sua solidão. Envolve-se em múltiplos jogos de sedução, incapaz de voltar para casa sozinha, sem alguém com quem trocar afectos. Troca confidências com a irmã, Sara, repartem jantares, confidenciam medos. Laura sente que tem de mudar, sair do caos que a sua vida tem sido, ainda mais quando os filhos a surpreendem com um estranho na cama. Procura então a mãe, como quem tenta reconciliar-se.

Vera e João são jovens apaixonados, e o desejo os obriga a fugir de casa e dos amigos. Isolados em uma floresta, eles prometem nunca se separar. Mas um dia Vera fica doente e João deve buscar ajuda. A fé inabalável no amor deles está prestes a quebrar.

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 politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.

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

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 way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.

Ela tem dezenove anos, o nome dela é Rita. Ela trabalha na perfumaria do shopping. Hoje ela vai se casar. Ela vai ao cabeleireiro. Terremoto. Ela de repente decide cortar o cabelo curto. Paulo, seu noivo, está esperando na prefeitura.

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

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 a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

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 overly protracted opening has car’s drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until the roadster breaks down. Momentum picks up at sunrise with their attempts to fix the car. A retired mechanic-turned-beekeeper with a heart condition (Canto e Castro) does the trick and convinces Figueiredo to take him cross-country on a motorbike to look up an old friend. Cochofel and the mechanic’s alarmed niece (Maysa Marta) follow in pursuit. The old man dies peacefully on the road, but Figueiredo, having wholeheartedly grasped his deliverance mission, keeps going.

Um filme de Margarida Gil sobre o regresso à terra de um homem preso por ter sido incendiário. Uma estreia em televisão. Mário Viegas e Zita Duarte nos seus últimos papéis. A intrpertação de Mário Viegas é considerada antológica no seu papel de bombeiro "Barriga d´água", personagem marginal numa terra de incêndios, terra de fogos e amores violentos. Margarida Gil assinou em 1993 um filme sobre regressos e partidas, encontros e desencontros no país interior. Filmado na Serra da Estrela, um local permanentemente vítima de incêndios. Uma crónica onde se cruzam histórias de amor antigas e novas, velhos crimes e novas formas de corrupção. No fundo, é um olhar sobre a vida e as suas perplexidades, acasos e choque de interesses. Destaque para a música de João Gil e Artur Costa, bem como para o tema cantado por Teresa Salgueiro.

Podemos dizer que Jorge é um homem feliz. Chega a casa no fim de um dia com muitos problemas, como todos os outros. Nessa noite vai se encontrar com um industrial japonês negociar um novo emprego, para abandonar o seu atual de professor e voltar a trabalhar como químico. Mas, ao regressar, encontra alguém em casa. Alguém que não conhece. A partir daí tudo vai ser diferente.

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

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 breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.

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 waterfront.

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

AGOSTO é o oposto das chamadas fitas de Verão, como as paixões que lá se contam estão nos antípodas dos amores de praia.

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 from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.

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 drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.

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 years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.

Álvaro Serpa, jornalista, estaciona o carro junto ao mar. Assiste por acaso a uma discussão entre Álvaro Allen e Ana Mónica, que se refugia dentro do carro de Serpa. A pedido de Ana, Serpa leva-a dali, mas passados alguns quilómetros Ana quer regressar. Encontram Allen morto com um tiro na cabeça. Suicídio? Ana foge e desaparece. Fascinado pelo ar misterioso dessa mulher, o jornalista não a menciona nas declarações à Polícia, e tenta encontrá-la.

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

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 grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

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

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

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

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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 in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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 practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants. His father expressly desired that his son film this eccentric daily life in 8 mm format. Maria’s wages are dilapidated to the last penny by this amateur, monstrous, family movie production.