Luís Miguel Cintra Movies
- 2004

The Fifth Empire
The Fifth Empire6.52004HD
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...
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- 2025

The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors02025HD
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A commission by Serralves Foundation to...
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- 2003

A Talking Picture
A Talking Picture6.72003HD
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...
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- 1995

Casa de Lava
Casa de Lava71995HD
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...
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- 1995

The Convent
The Convent5.31995HD
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...
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- 1986

The Satin Slipper
The Satin Slipper7.61986HD
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...
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- 2000

April Captains
April Captains6.62000HD
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...
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- 1992

The Last Dive
The Last Dive71992HD
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,...
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- 1992

Day of Despair
Day of Despair6.31992HD
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
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- 1989

Recollections of the Yellow House
Recollections of the Yellow House7.81989HD
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...
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- 1972

Fragments of an Alms-Film
Fragments of an Alms-Film6.91972HD
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...
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- 1989

Where the Sun Beats
Where the Sun Beats5.21989HD
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...
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- 2000

Moonfish
Moonfish5.82000HD
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...
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- 2013

Second Hand
Second Hand102013HD
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.
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- 1972

A Pousada das Chagas
A Pousada das Chagas61972HD
A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.
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- 2021

Around Rocha’s Table
Around Rocha’s Table02021HD
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional...
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- 2000

The Heart's Root
The Heart's Root62000HD
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...
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- 1987

The Jester
The Jester6.81987HD
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...
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- 1982

Silvestre
Silvestre6.91982HD
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
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- 1994

Blind Man's Bluff
Blind Man's Bluff71994HD
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.
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