Luís Miguel Cintra

Arrabalde (2024)

Two friends cannot find their way around the city of Lisbon. It is a film, which could be a poem, that has no genre and serves as a bridge between the narratives, forms, and dreams of the characters they encounter. ...

We Are on Air (2024)

Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia's apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly ...

Truth or Dare? (2023)

Theatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of her friend and actor Luis Miguel Cintra; and Cintra is in search of himself, both excavating the matter and memory of theatre, the matter and memory of life. At ...

O Filme Feliz :) (2023)

Gonçalo and his friends set off on a mission to his deceased grandfather's house, in the north of Portugal. There, the memories of the past open up new perspectives into the future. ...

Love Lights (2022)

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a revisitation of geographical places and memories. ...

Pathos (2021)

Once upon a time, the last days of 2028. This world's disarray, no more no less than ever. Accommodate, adapt, evolve. The inability to live. The endless survival. Angela, a retired history teacher, has long lived in voluntary isolation, locked in an apart ...

Pathos Ethos Logos (2021)

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths ...

Around Rocha’s Table (2021)

'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha's universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key to decipher some of the unknown symbols and allusions contained in his films. ...

A Present Light (2021)

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about the slippery road. This is how I met Diana. Suffering from a heartbreak, Gonçalo falls from his motorbike. ...

War (2020)

The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk us through the depths of the physical sites that haunt him - from t ...

Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia (2018)

Rage (2018)

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to f ...

Anteroom (2018)

Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the "act" of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film crews during the preparation for a shot. The first video assist rule is that the image one sees in it has to be more interest ...

Días color naranja (2016)

Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe ...

Correspondences (2016)

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a tes ...

The Old Man of Belem (2014)

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life. ...

Illusion (2014)

Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion in early 2014. This play was based upon texts by Federico García Lorca. However, the 119th company's show was ...

The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John (2013)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus, filmed outdoors, from dawn to sunset, and materialized in the grain of the voice, the expression, control, rh ...

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal (2013)

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father's place in the house. But the village is too small for ...

Biette (2013)

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette. ...

Second Hand (2013)

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy. ...

The Enclosure of Time (2013)

Théophile spends his holidays in Italy, in the Marche hills, and enjoys the freedom he finds at his grandfather's. The latter, who lives a reclusive life, becomes seriously ill and the child calls for a doctor, William Stein, who had saved the old man's l ...

Gebo and the Shadow (2012)

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be h ...

Demain? (2011)

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing. ...

The world that was (and that is) (2011)

The flash of socialism that once lit Spain. ...

The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From th ...

The Sword and the Rose (2010)

Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact. ...

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)

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

O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta (2008)

Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival. ...

Romance de Vila do Conde (2008)

Manoel de Oliveira's homage to Vila do Conde, with a poem by José Régio. It was shot in 1965, but only completed in 2008. ...

From Now On (2008)

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness. ...

Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (2007)

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". ...

One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (2007)

The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer. ...

Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side (2007)

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer's personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira doc ...

Magic Mirror (2006)

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. Is ...

The Fifth Empire (2004)

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire. ...

The Days When I Don’t Exist (2003)

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only d ...

A Talking Picture (2003)

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about m ...

The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader. ...

The Wolf of the West Coast (2002)

James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French hideaway, the gangster is already dead. Among the people Millar investigates are the gangster's brother, th ...

The Uncertainty Principle (2002)

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

Rending (2001)

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight. ...

Word and Utopia (2000)

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. ...

The Heart's Root (2000)

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 ...

Snow White (2000)

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser's anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in ...

Moonfish (2000)

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they're getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we're on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon's south ...

Erros Meus (2000)

April Captains (2000)

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it. ...

The Spousals of God (1999)

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

The Letter (1999)

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps h ...

Inquietude (1998)

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. " ...

Transatlantique (1997)

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, ...

The Convent (1995)

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England. ...

Casa de Lava (1995)

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama. ...

Blind Man's Bluff (1994)

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day. ...

Two Brothers, My Sister (1994)

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she ...

Here on Earth (1993)

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a g ...

Abraham's Valley (1993)

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 ...

Zéfiro (1993)

Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. ...

Villa Mauresque (1993)

Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer fallen and suicidal. ...

Poor George (1993)

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. ...

Day of Despair (1992)

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. ...

The Last Dive (1992)

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to b ...

Alcibíades (1992)

A musical fable inspired by Plato's Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his strategies to seduce the old philosopher, Socrates. He believes that the wisdom and knowledge he imagines Socrates has, c ...

The Divine Comedy (1991)

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy. ...

No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973. ...

Blood (1989)

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we're never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is estab ...

Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)

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. ...

Where the Sun Beats (1989)

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister does not have a happy life. He initiates a friendship with a worker on the farm. The circumstances turn La ...

A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional (1988)

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

The Cannibals (1988)

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 ...

Tall Stories (1988)

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a friendship begins between him and other inn's regular holiday-makers, like maid Luisa or fisherman João. But doc ...

The Jester (1987)

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play. ...

The Mountains of the Moon (1987)

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 ...

The Distant Land (1987)

Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who enjoys exercising power. His tender wife Genia increasingly recognizes his deceitfulness. The Russian pianist ...

My Case (1986)

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material ...

The Satin Slipper (1986)

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 ...

No One Twice (1985)

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 overs ...

Vertiges (1985)

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of F ...

Lisboa Cultural (1984)

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 consi ...

Signals of Life (1984)

An approach to the life and work of Jorge de Sena, relying on the testimonies of Mécia de Sena (author of the texts she reads) and the insertion of brief segments of fiction from texts (poems, fiction and theatre) by the writer. ...

Gestures and Fragments (1983)

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, ...

Island of Loves (1982)

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fe ...

Silvestre (1982)

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant. ...

E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo? (1979)

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren't ...

Neither Bird Nor Fish (1978)

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book "The Silver Key". Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the conflicts between the real and the imaginary, and tells how Randolph Carter, the film's character, leaves everyday life ...

O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores (1977)

O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do Porto. ...

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho (1974)

A Pousada das Chagas (1972)

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal. ...

Fragments of an Alms-Film (1972)

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 dai ...

He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes (1970)

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes. ...

Music for Herself (1979)

A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only company she has is the radio, tuned to a station of popular music hits that the audience can ask for by te ...

E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo? (1979)

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren't ...