Manuel Guimarães

Prefácio a Vergílio Ferreira (1975)

Cântico Final (1975)

Mário Gonçalves, a high school teacher threatened with death due to cancer, spends the last days of his life in the village where he was born, in the heart of Serra da Estrela. There, he expresses his talent as a painter in the intimate decoration of an ...

Areia Mar - Mar Areia (1973)

Sand Sea - Sea Sand ...

Carta a Mestre Dórdio Gomes (1971)

A Letter for master Dordio Gomes (about portuguese painter Dordio Gomes) ...

Resende (1970)

The life and work of the painter Resende. An encounter with social themes and subjects portrayed in the painter's work. ...

Expressos Lisboa - Madrid (1969)

Lisbon - Madrid train travel ...

António Duarte (1969)

Documentary about the sculptor António Duarte ...

A Terra e o Homem (1969)

On April 9, 1968, the Republican Nuno Simões (1894-1976) was honored by the Municipality of Famalicão, being assigned the insignia of the Great Officer of the Order of Benemerence. Two teams from Cultura Filmes, a Commercial Society of Cinematographic P ...

Tráfego e Estiva (1968)

O Ritmo na Vida (1968)

Artes Gráficas (1967)

Graphic Arts ...

Ensino das Belas-Artes (1967)

Fine Arts Education ...

O Porto, Escola de Artistas (1967)

The Wheat and the Tares (1965)

A sad and strong people living in the huge plains of Alentejo. Their endless struggle for bread, their nostalgic, bewitching songs and their daily toil to turn a dry, barren land into golden wheat fields. ...

The Crime of Aldeia Velha (1964)

Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slowly start believing that she is possessed by the devil. ...

O Primo Basílio (1959)

Jorge, a successful engineer and employee of a ministry and Luísa, a romantic and dreamy girl, star as the typical bourgeois couple of the Lisbon society of the 19th century. ...

My Little Seamstress (1959)

Aurora is a modest young girl, working as dressmaker for the women her popular district, near the OPorto cathedral. One day, through a hintz-dress design competition, she gets involved with a haut couture atelier. ...

Vidas sem Rumo (1956)

Meia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doesn't care for Ana or for the child they had together. He lives with the beautiful Marlene who dances in the bars. Gull spends her whole days lulling a doll ...

Nazaré (1952)

The sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. The film tells the story of António and his family, where no dreams are allowed. There is also the mourning of the woman in black wailing silently on the beach or waiting f ...

The Circus (1951)

Tony, a trapeze artist, gets a job at a small circus. When a tempest takes away the tent, Tony stays for the love of the beautiful Belmira who could be a rider… if they hadn't sold the horse. They play at open-air, sleep under the stars, scrimp and save ...

O Desterrado - Vida e Obra de Soares dos Reis (1950)

Frei Luís de Sousa (1950)

Seven years after the disastrous Battle of Alcácer Quibir, where King Sebastian and the nobleman Dom João disappeared, the latter's wife Dona Madalena de Vilhena finally gives up hope that he'll return and marries the knight Dom Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, ...

The Lion from Estrela (1947)

Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich. ...

Aniki-Bóbó (1942)

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha. ...

Born with a Thunderstorm (2017)

The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and hi ...