Manuela de Freitas
Also Known As: Maria Manuela Gouvêa de Freitas
Biography: Manuela de Freitas was born on September 4, 1940 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Adult: No
Birthday: September 04, 1940
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Female
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God's Comedy
Overview: An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Overview: 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 waterfront.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Francisca
Overview: The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Rosa Negra
Overview: Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-06-25
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Dina and Django
Overview: Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Agosto
Overview: Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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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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Fado Camané
Overview: Documentary about the Portuguese singer Camané and the process of creating one of fado's key works, revealing a rigorous search that allows him to achieve masterful interpretations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Paraíso Perdido
Overview: 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 man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Hovering Over the Water
Overview: 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 drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-02-24
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The Hips of J.W.
Overview: Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-29
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As Bodas de Deus
Overview: After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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Trails
Overview: Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-05-19
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Lisboa Cultural
Overview: Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of Portuguese culture. The camera shows from a distance, or in minute detail, the monuments or art pieces considered, or even the texts discussed by the narrators, reenacted on stage or recited by actors.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Overview: 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 breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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Come and Go
Overview: João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-06-03
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The Satin Slipper
Overview: During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Silvestre
Overview: A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-05-06
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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 Mountains of the Moon
Overview: This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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Doomed Love
Overview: A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-25
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Three Less Me
Overview: A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Haircut
Overview: 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 around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Past and Present
Overview: This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-02-27
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Fragile as the World
Overview: 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 their love story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-07-20
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A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
Overview: An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Fragments of an Alms-Film
Overview: 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 practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants. His father expressly desired that his son film this eccentric daily life in 8 mm format. Maria’s wages are dilapidated to the last penny by this amateur, monstrous, family movie production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Portuguese Woman
Overview: 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 honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreigner' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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Ninguém Duas Vezes
Overview: Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-04-24
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Antes Que o Tempo Mude
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Xavier
Overview: Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Zeus
Overview: Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: become who he really wanted to be
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-01-05
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Dead Man's Seat
Overview: 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 takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-10-25
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