Leonor Silveira
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.
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John From
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.
Gebo et l'ombre
Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
O Estranho Caso de Angélica
A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.
Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma
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"
Espelho Mágico
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.
Um Filme Falado
Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
O Princípio da Incerteza
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Porto da Minha Infância
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Je rentre à la maison
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.
Palavra e Utopia
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.
La lettre
The Letter was the first film version of the Somerset Maugham play of the same name. Broadway star Jeanne Eagels plays the wife of Reginald Owen, the owner of a Malayan rubber plantation.
Inquietude
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.
Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo
Manoel is 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.
Vale Abraão
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.
'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition.
Os Canibais
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.