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...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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