Francisco Manso

Our Consul in Havana (2019)

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy ...

Salgueiro Maia - Rumo à Eternidade (2019)

On July 1, 2019, Salgueiro Maia, the iconic name of one of the captains of the Carnation Revolution, would be 75 years old. He was born in Castelo de Vide and is buried there, in a shallow grave, as was his wish. This documentary addresses some of the most ...

The Two Brothers (2019)

"The Two Brothers" is based on a true story. André, a Cape Verdean migrant in Lisbon, receives a letter from his father telling him that his younger brother João has had an affair with André's wife and demanding his return to recover the family's honour ...

O Cônsul de Bordéus (2012)

This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to P ...

Assault on the Santa Maria (2010)

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa Maria, a Portuguese luxury cruise liner, an operation devised by Henrique Galvão to expose the Government of Portugal as a dictatorship. ...

Mulheres da Serra de Montemuro (2010)

O Último Condenado à Morte (2009)

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal. ...

A Ilha dos Escravos (2008)

After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they ...

O Cinema Português (2003)

Napomuceno's Will (1997)

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". ...

Terra Nova, Mar Velho (1983)

Journey of a cod trawler to Newfoundland waters for cod fishing. ...

Acto dos Feitos da Guiné (1980)

A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first. ...

O Convidado Debaixo da Mesa (1979)

Bráulio is a rich man, and the patriarch of the family. At one of the many boring dinner parties his family gives, he meets a guest that preferes to hide under the table. ...

Argozelo (1977)

Os Filhos da Noite (1979)

A man living a regular and not-so-spectacular life, only feels alive at night. ...

O Meu Nome É... (1978)

The daily experiences of many antifascists - who suffered, until the political prison, which sealed his esteem and united them in a covenant of justice against a "pide" assassin (eted). But the April 25 and May 1, to September 28 and March 11, follows the ...