Leonor Silveira

Leonor Silveira

Birthday: 1970-10-28

Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal

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.

Movies

Living Bad
Living Bad

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn betwee...

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Bad Living
Bad Living

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different gener...

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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

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

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Word and Utopia
Word and Utopia

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked ...

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Há-de Haver Uma Lei
Há-de Haver Uma Lei

The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, th...

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The Strange Case of Angelica
The Strange Case of Angelica

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter...

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The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy

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

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Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo and the Shadow

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his fam...

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Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memo...

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Blackpot
Blackpot

A reorganization within a crime syndicate....

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Tommy Guns
Tommy Guns

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola wh...

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Twin Flames
Twin Flames

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, unevent...

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The Uncertainty Principle
The Uncertainty Principle

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

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Oliveira, l'architecte
Oliveira, l'architecte

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 19...

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The Convent
The Convent

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portug...

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John From
John From

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with ...

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Magic Mirror
Magic Mirror

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfre...

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A Talking Picture
A Talking Picture

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterra...

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The Letter
The Letter

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She fe...

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I’m Going Home
I’m Going Home

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when...

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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Voyage to the Beginning of the World

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the or...

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Party
Party

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a...

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Abraham's Valley
Abraham's Valley

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth ...

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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christ...

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Porto of My Childhood
Porto of My Childhood

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown....

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Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me
Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me

“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a his...

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Inquietude
Inquietude

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The I...

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Manoel de Oliveira, O Caso Dele
Manoel de Oliveira, O Caso Dele

A tribute documentary to Manoel de Oliveira, on occasion of his 100th birthday....

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The Cannibals
The Cannibals

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It w...

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Rage
Rage

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hung...

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João's Nightmare
João's Nightmare

João still lives at home with his parents. With absolutely no idea what to do with his life, he leav...

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Three Palm Trees
Three Palm Trees

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs i...

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No Dia dos Meus Anos
No Dia dos Meus Anos

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the sec...

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Porto Santo
Porto Santo

A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small i...

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All the Dead Ones
All the Dead Ones

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the...

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No, or the Vain Glory of Command
No, or the Vain Glory of Command

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a co...

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Name Above Title
Name Above Title

The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him...

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Retrato de Família
Retrato de Família

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is ...

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As Meninas Exemplares
As Meninas Exemplares

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boy...

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Wings
Wings

It is inspired by the true story of the girls and women of a Ukrainian family forced to find rescue ...

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The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors

The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of t...

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The Tree of Knowledge
The Tree of Knowledge

Gaspard, a teenager from the suburbs of Lisbon, falls into the hands of the Ogre, a man who has made...

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