Leonor Silveira
Also Known As: Леонор Сильвейра
Biography: Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes is a Portuguese film actress who made her film debut in The Cannibals for director Manoel de Oliveira in 1988. She has appeared in most of Oliveira's films since then.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Birthday: October 28, 1970
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Female
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Living Bad
Overview: A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-07
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Bad Living
Overview: In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-07
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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Overview: On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-04-30
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Word and Utopia
Overview: 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 abolish slavery.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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Há-de Haver Uma Lei
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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The Strange Case of Angelica
Overview: A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-12-29
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The Divine Comedy
Overview: In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Gebo and the Shadow
Overview: 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 daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-10
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Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Overview: In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back. He tells stories about Fellini and De Sica's direction, of using irony in performances, of constantly working (an actor tries to find himself in characters). He's diffident about prizes, celebrates Rome and Paris, salutes Naples and its people. He answers the question, why make bad films; recalls his father and grandfather, carpenters, his mother, deaf in her old age, and his brother, a film editor; he's modest about his looks. In repose, time's swift passage holds Mastroianni inward gaze.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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Blackpot
Overview: A reorganization within a crime syndicate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-07-14
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Tommy Guns
Overview: In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
Genres: History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Twin Flames
Overview: Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando’s exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural hallucinations that can only be remedied through music and, finally, the love of a stranger. Pinto made this impassioned fairy tale as part of a series of films about the four elements. - FilmLinc
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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The Uncertainty Principle
Overview: Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Oliveira, l'architecte
Overview: Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about the figure of his father, his first experience of cinema as an actor, his past as a racing driver, his first technical experiences…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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The Convent
Overview: The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-06
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John From
Overview: Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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Magic Mirror
Overview: 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 that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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A Talking Picture
Overview: 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 day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-31
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The Letter
Overview: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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I’m Going Home
Overview: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-13
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Overview: Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-05-16
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Party
Overview: The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa. The intriguing guests are an older unmarried couple, the philosophical and observant Irene, and Michel, a roué. While Rogério and Irene talk, Michel and Leonor go down to the sea. The conversations upset Rogério and capture Leonor's imagination. Five years later, the four dine at the villa. Michel and Leonor again leave the other two. Intentions and undercurrents are subtle. One of the four proves strong, one weak, and two must choose. Wind and rain bring down the curtain on both acts.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-27
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Abraham's Valley
Overview: 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 friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Overview: 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 by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Porto of My Childhood
Overview: Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-09-19
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Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me
Overview: “An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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Inquietude
Overview: An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Manoel de Oliveira, O Caso Dele
Overview: A tribute documentary to Manoel de Oliveira, on occasion of his 100th birthday.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-11
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The Cannibals
Overview: 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 style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger, and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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Rage
Overview: 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 revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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João's Nightmare
Overview: João still lives at home with his parents. With absolutely no idea what to do with his life, he leaves the city centre to hang out in the outskirts. The abandoned factory where he spends his days is the lingering echo of a better past. What lies ahead seems worse as João comes face to face with the failure of youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-10
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Three Palm Trees
Overview: Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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No Dia dos Meus Anos
Overview: This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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Porto Santo
Overview: A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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All the Dead Ones
Overview: The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-10
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No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Overview: Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Name Above Title
Overview: The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star.
Genres: Horror Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-05
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Retrato de Família
Overview: Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-12-12
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As Meninas Exemplares
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Original Language: pt
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