Manuela de Freitas Movies

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 theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

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

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

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

Laura doesn't know what to do with her loneliness. She gets involved in multiple games of seduction, unable to go home alone, without someone to...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...