Manuela de Freitas

Manuela de Freitas

Birthday: 1940-09-04

Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal

Biography: Manuela de Freitas was born on September 4, 1940 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Movies

God's Comedy
God's Comedy

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop....

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Recollections of the Yellow House
Recollections of the Yellow House

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boa...

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Francisca
Francisca

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love result...

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Rosa Negra
Rosa Negra

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Ferna...

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Dina and Django
Dina and Django

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a f...

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Agosto
Agosto

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach ...

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Poor George
Poor George

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching ...

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Fado Camané
Fado Camané

Documentary about the Portuguese singer Camané and the process of creating one of fado's key works, ...

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Paraíso Perdido
Paraíso Perdido

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola man...

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Hovering Over the Water
Hovering Over the Water

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while su...

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The Hips of J.W.
The Hips of J.W.

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in rea...

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The Spousals of God
The Spousals of God

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

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Trails
Trails

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run acr...

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Lisboa Cultural
Lisboa Cultural

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered t...

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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
The Sound of the Shaking Earth

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who neve...

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Come and Go
Come and Go

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to ...

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The Satin Slipper
The Satin Slipper

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo,...

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Silvestre
Silvestre

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a d...

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The Heart's Root
The Heart's Root

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old to...

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The Mountains of the Moon
The Mountains of the Moon

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shi...

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Doomed Love
Doomed Love

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....

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Three Less Me
Three Less Me

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to s...

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Haircut
Haircut

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese ...

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Past and Present
Past and Present

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for bett...

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Fragile as the World
Fragile as the World

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the ...

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A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

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

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Fragments of an Alms-Film
Fragments of an Alms-Film

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has giv...

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The Portuguese Woman
The Portuguese Woman

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks mar...

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Ninguém Duas Vezes
Ninguém Duas Vezes

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the...

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Antes Que o Tempo Mude
Antes Que o Tempo Mude

Laura doesn't know what to do with her loneliness. She gets involved in multiple games of seduction,...

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Xavier
Xavier

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find ...

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Far Away from Here
Far Away from Here

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alent...

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Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

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Zeus
Zeus

Manuel Teixeira Gomes the Portuguese President who left everything behind with only one premise: bec...

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Dead Man's Seat
Dead Man's Seat

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving...

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Rita
Rita

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