Luís Miguel Cintra

Luís Miguel Cintra

An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949. His connection to theater began in 1968, at the Faculty of Letters Theater Group, when he was studying Romance Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1970 to 1972, he attended the Acting Technical Course, in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, thanks to a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. When he returned to Portugal, he founded, along with Jorge Silva Melo, the Teatro da Cornucópia Company, in 1973, where he directed plays by some of the great names in theater, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Strindberg, and many others, almost always participating as an actor in the plays he directed. At the same time, until the 80s, he was a theater critic for O Tempo e o Modo magazine and he managed the Seara Nova Theater Collection, from Estampa publishing house, and the Theater Collection, from Ulmeiro publishing house. As a reader, Luís Miguel Cintra recorded complete readings of Viagens na Minha Terra, by Almeida Garrett and Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco, as well as poems by Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Camões, Antero de Quental and Ruy Belo. In 1987, Cintra made his debut as an opera stage director, with L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, by Ravel and Dido and Aeneas, by Purcell, at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. In the following years, he directed operas by Mozart, Haydn, Cherubini, among others. He worked with the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos Choir and the Gulbenkian Choir, as a reader, in recitals by authors such as Schubert, Liszt, Sati and Poulenc. In 1984, he entered the Venice Biennial Theater Festival with his group and in 1988 he directed the show La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments, by Fernando Pessoa, for the Avignon Festival. Later, he kept on presenting plays in Italy, France, Spain and. Belgium In addition to the theater, Luís Miguel Cintra began his career in cinema early, making his debut in a short film by João César Monteiro. From that point until now, he worked in over 70 films, with directors like the aforementioned João César Monteiro, Paulo Rocha, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Pinto, João Botelho, Teresa Villaverde, Pedro Costa and the American John Malkovich. His many awards include two Bordalo da Casa da Imprensa Awards for Best Acting in Film (1995) and Best Acting in Theater (1997), two Globos de Ouro for Theater Personality of the Year (1999) and Best Theater Actor (2003), the Coimbra University Award and the Pessoa Prize, both in 2005. The LEFFEST will pay tribute to Luís Miguel Cintra’s work as an actor, through a selection of films he starred in; and as a stage director, showing recordings of some of the plays, followed by discussions with the audience and several actors he worked with.

  • Popularity : 1.312
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1949-04-29
  • Place of Birth : Madrid, Spain
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Luís Miguel Cintra Movies

  • 2000
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    Word and Utopia

    Word and Utopia

    5.1 2000 HD

    The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to...

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  • 1986
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    My Case

    My Case

    6.7 1986 HD

    Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...

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  • 1989
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    Recollections of the Yellow House

    Recollections of the Yellow House

    8.093 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    No, or the Vain Glory of Command

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command

    6.1 1990 HD

    Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...

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  • 1991
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    The Divine Comedy

    The Divine Comedy

    6.9 1991 HD

    In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha...

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  • 2012
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    Gebo and the Shadow

    Gebo and the Shadow

    6.9 2012 HD

    Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his...

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  • 2008
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    Romance de Vila do Conde

    Romance de Vila do Conde

    1 2008 HD

    Manoel de Oliveira's homage to Vila do Conde, with a poem by José Régio. It was shot in 1965, but only completed in 2008.

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  • 1986
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    The Satin Slipper

    The Satin Slipper

    7.3 1986 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Second Hand

    Second Hand

    10 2013 HD

    Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.

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  • 1993
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    Here on Earth

    Here on Earth

    5.3 1993 HD

    Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be...

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  • 2011
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    Demain?

    Demain?

    2 2011 HD

    The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the...

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  • 2003
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    The Days When I Don’t Exist

    The Days When I Don’t Exist

    6.7 2003 HD

    A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is...

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  • 1988
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    Tall Stories

    Tall Stories

    5.7 1988 HD

    12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...

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  • 1994
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    Blind Man's Bluff

    Blind Man's Bluff

    6.7 1994 HD

    A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

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  • 2000
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    Peixe-Lua

    Peixe-Lua

    5 2000 HD

    The story of a family of bull fighters.

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  • 2001
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    Rending

    Rending

    6 2001 HD

    A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

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  • 2023
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    Truth or Dare?

    Truth or Dare?

    10 2023 HD

    Theatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of her friend and actor Luis Miguel Cintra; and Cintra is...

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  • 2013
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    If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

    If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

    4.5 2013 HD

    1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the...

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  • 2013
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    The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John

    The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John

    1 2013 HD

    THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus,...

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  • 1972
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    A Pousada das Chagas

    A Pousada das Chagas

    5 1972 HD

    A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

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  • 1989
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    Blood

    Blood

    6.8 1989 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    Day of Despair

    Day of Despair

    6.2 1992 HD

    Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

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  • 1993
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    Poor George

    Poor George

    5.1 1993 HD

    One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

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  • 2022
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    Love Lights

    Love Lights

    1 2022 HD

    The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a...

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  • 2021
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    Around Rocha’s Table

    Around Rocha’s Table

    1 2021 HD

    'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional...

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  • 2014
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    The Old Man of Belem

    The Old Man of Belem

    4.5 2014 HD

    Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...

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  • 1989
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    Where the Sun Beats

    Where the Sun Beats

    5.3 1989 HD

    Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister...

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  • 2004
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    The Fifth Empire

    The Fifth Empire

    6 2004 HD

    Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...

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  • 1997
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    Transatlantique

    Transatlantique

    2 1997 HD

    In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence...

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  • 1992
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    Alcibíades

    Alcibíades

    1 1992 HD

    A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his...

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  • 1995
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    The Convent

    The Convent

    5.4 1995 HD

    The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...

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  • 2023
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    O Filme Feliz :)

    O Filme Feliz :)

    1 2023 HD

    Gonçalo and his friends set off on a mission to his deceased grandfather’s house, in the north of Portugal. There, the memories of the...

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  • 2006
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    Magic Mirror

    Magic Mirror

    6.4 2006 HD

    Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him...

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  • 2002
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    The Dancer Upstairs

    The Dancer Upstairs

    6.1 2002 HD

    A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

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  • 2024
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    Arrabalde

    Arrabalde

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Sword and the Rose

    The Sword and the Rose

    3.6 2010 HD

    Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our...

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  • 1999
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    As Bodas de Deus

    As Bodas de Deus

    7.5 1999 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Correspondences

    Correspondences

    6.6 2016 HD

    Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long...

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  • 2007
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    Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side

    Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side

    1 2007 HD

    Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis...

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  • 1984
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    Lisboa Cultural

    Lisboa Cultural

    1 1984 HD

    Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of...

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  • 2016
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    Días color naranja

    Días color naranja

    1 2016 HD

    Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe

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  • 2007
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    One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

    One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

    1 2007 HD

    The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.

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  • 1993
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    Abraham's Valley

    Abraham's Valley

    7.5 1993 HD

    Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's...

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  • 2011
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    The world that was (and that is)

    The world that was (and that is)

    1 2011 HD

    The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.

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  • 1995
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    Casa de Lava

    Casa de Lava

    6.9 1995 HD

    The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

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  • 2009
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    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

    6.2 2009 HD

    On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

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  • 2007
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    Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

    Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

    5.3 2007 HD

    A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired...

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  • 2003
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    A Talking Picture

    A Talking Picture

    7.1 2003 HD

    A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on...

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  • 1999
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    The Letter

    The Letter

    5.85 1999 HD

    A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...

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  • 1982
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    Silvestre

    Silvestre

    6.1 1982 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    The Uncertainty Principle

    The Uncertainty Principle

    4.9 2002 HD

    Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

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  • 2000
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    April Captains

    April Captains

    6.4 2000 HD

    Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

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  • 2010
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    The Strange Case of Angelica

    The Strange Case of Angelica

    6.56 2010 HD

    A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through...

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  • 2000
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    The Heart's Root

    The Heart's Root

    5 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Island of Loves

    Island of Loves

    6.4 1982 HD

    This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

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  • 1998
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    Anxiety

    Anxiety

    6.4 1998 HD

    An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

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  • 1988
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    The Cannibals

    The Cannibals

    6.8 1988 HD

    This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of...

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  • 1994
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    Two Brothers, My Sister

    Two Brothers, My Sister

    5.2 1994 HD

    This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy...

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  • 1987
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    The Mountains of the Moon

    The Mountains of the Moon

    5.3 1987 HD

    This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

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  • 1970
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    He Who Waits for Dead Man Shoes Dies Barefoot

    He Who Waits for Dead Man Shoes Dies Barefoot

    4.7 1970 HD

    The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

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  • 2018
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    Rage

    Rage

    6.8 2018 HD

    Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...

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  • 2008
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    From Now On

    From Now On

    2 2008 HD

    Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of...

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  • 1985
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    Vertiges

    Vertiges

    6.5 1985 HD

    In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...

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  • 1988
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    A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

    A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

    1 1988 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    The Last Dive

    The Last Dive

    6.7 1992 HD

    Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing,...

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  • 1972
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    Fragments of an Alms-Film

    Fragments of an Alms-Film

    6 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Villa Mauresque

    Villa Mauresque

    1 1993 HD

    Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer...

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  • 1983
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    Gestures and Fragments

    Gestures and Fragments

    8 1983 HD

    "Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

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  • 2000
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    Erros Meus

    Erros Meus

    1 2000 HD

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  • 1985
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    Ninguém Duas Vezes

    Ninguém Duas Vezes

    5 1985 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1978
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    Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe

    Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe

    1 1978 HD

    A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the...

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  • 2018
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    Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia

    Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2018
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    Anteroom

    Anteroom

    1 2018 HD

    Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film...

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  • 1993
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    Zéfiro

    Zéfiro

    1 1993 HD

    Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with the South of Portugal, singling it out as a place...

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  • 2014
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    Illusion

    Illusion

    1 2014 HD

    Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play...

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  • 1977
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    O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores

    O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores

    1 1977 HD

    O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do...

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  • 1979
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    E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

    E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

    1 1979 HD

    The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a...

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  • 1987
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    The Jester

    The Jester

    6.5 1987 HD

    Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

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  • 2000
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    Snow White

    Snow White

    4.8 2000 HD

    Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

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  • 2020
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    War

    War

    1 2020 HD

    The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly...

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  • 2008
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    O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta

    O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta

    1 2008 HD

    Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.

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  • 1984
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    Signals of Life

    Signals of Life

    1 1984 HD

    An approach to the life and work of Jorge de Sena, relying on the testimonies of Mécia de Sena (author of the texts she reads) and the...

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  • 2021
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    A Present Light

    A Present Light

    4 2021 HD

    On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about...

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  • 2021
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    Pathos Ethos Logos

    Pathos Ethos Logos

    7 2021 HD

    The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability...

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  • 2021
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    Pathos

    Pathos

    1 2021 HD

    Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world’s disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live....

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  • 2013
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    Biette

    Biette

    1 2013 HD

    Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

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  • 2024
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    We Are on Air

    We Are on Air

    1 2024 HD

    Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a...

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  • 1979
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    Música Para Si

    Música Para Si

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Música Para Si

    Música Para Si

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

    E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

    1 1979 HD

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