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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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