Manuel Mozos
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Biography: Manuel Mozos (born June 1959, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese film director. Mozos studied history and philosophy before enrolling at the School of Theatre and Cinema, where he specialized as an editor. He was responsible for the editing of several films, and in 1989, he directed Um Passo, Outro Passo e Depois... In 1992, he directed his first feature, Xavier. Since then he has also directed several documentaries and video clips, including 4 Hearts, produced and released by Rosa Filmes.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Birthday: January 01, 1959
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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Encoberto
Overview: Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store will be the ideal moment to catch them in the act. After a conversation with Ricardo, one of the group's members, Vargas questions his view of the enemy, making the mission much more difficult.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-05
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Légua
Overview: At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challenges her mother's choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-12-13
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The Face You Deserve
Overview: Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-23
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Poor George
Overview: One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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Love Lights
Overview: 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 revisitation of geographical places and memories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Overview: Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Tempos de Escola
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Overview: In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-29
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The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal
Overview: On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films. For almost 90 years, nothing more was known: no reply was ever found and Régio never mentioned the subject again. The discovery of some old reels in a collector’s hoard seems to provide the ending to the story.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-06
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A Woman's Revenge
Overview: Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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The Heart's Root
Overview: 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 politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-18
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The Portuguese Nun
Overview: A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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Lovely Child
Overview: Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Overview: Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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A Portuguese Film
Overview: A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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Times Are Changing, Not Me
Overview: Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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Bruno Aleixo's Film
Overview: Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-23
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Rex Inutilis
Overview: Tiago is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine, he will fail once again. Between lying to his benevolent mother and giving in to the temptation of a school trip with his girlfriend, Tiago is faced with making decisions. Tiago may not be a lost case.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-17
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Pai Natal
Overview: The story of a young cinephile, who, coming from Braga, arrives in Lisbon, where he found a peculiar and fleeting job. Between the dark movie theatres, a girl and friends, the portrait of a certain era and of a young man like many, kind of lost, kind of uninterested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Christmas Inventory
Overview: A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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Drifters of a shadowy dream
Overview: X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding for the film he wrote himself. In the middle of nowhere, as in the nowhere of his life, he stumbles on Y, the woman for whom he has been waiting all his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-12-10
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Technoboss
Overview: The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by himself, carrying out his tasks — increasingly less real — as sales director for the company SegurVale. Sadness, resignation? Not with the songs Luís makes up behind the wheel, and that take over this film from start to finish.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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O Capacete Dourado
Overview: The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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Demain?
Overview: 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 turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-16
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A Noite do Golpe de Estado
Overview: The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that would topple the Portuguese government and start a democratic regime in Portugal - since another military coup, May 28, 1926, installed a one-party dictatorship there. The scenes in the claustrophobic operation room are recreated, with him alone and a few voices.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Vertiges
Overview: In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-09
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Veneno Cura
Overview: In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Far Away from Here
Overview: Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s overly protracted opening has car’s drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until the roadster breaks down. Momentum picks up at sunrise with their attempts to fix the car. A retired mechanic-turned-beekeeper with a heart condition (Canto e Castro) does the trick and convinces Figueiredo to take him cross-country on a motorbike to look up an old friend. Cochofel and the mechanic’s alarmed niece (Maysa Marta) follow in pursuit. The old man dies peacefully on the road, but Figueiredo, having wholeheartedly grasped his deliverance mission, keeps going.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos
Overview: In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismatic vocalist of Pop Dell'Arte).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-09
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The Journey
Overview: A filmmaker and an actress travel towards a remote location, in search of a particular house, and of inspiration for their next movie. The region is Douro, and the house belonged to Manoel de Oliveira, where he took refuge to create many of his works.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-07
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Primeira Obra
Overview: Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-30
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Reaping Cherries
Overview: O que eu vi quando me mostraram a ecografia não acreditei. Dentro do meu útero havia milhares de minúsculos seres, com forma de aranha mas de corpo tenro e flexível. What I saw when the ultrasound was shown to me, I couldn't believe. Inside my uterus there were hundreds of tiny creatures, shaped like spiders, but of flexible and tender body.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
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Uma História do Espectador de Cinema
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-02
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