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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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