Movies: Luís Miguel Cintra

  • 2013
    Second Hand

    Second Hand (2013)

    Second Hand

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    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....

    Second Hand
  • 1997
    Transatlantique

    Transatlantique (1997)

    Transatlantique

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    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-...

    Transatlantique
  • 1989
    Where the Sun Beats

    Where the Sun Beats (1989)

    Where the Sun Beats

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    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 t...

    Where the Sun Beats
  • 2014
    Illusion

    Illusion (2014)

    Illusion

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    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...

    Illusion
  • 2000
    The Heart's Root

    The Heart's Root (2000)

    The Heart's Root

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    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 ...

    The Heart's Root
  • 1992
    Day of Despair

    Day of Despair (1992)

    Day of Despair

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

    Day of Despair
  • 1988
    Tall Stories

    Tall Stories (1988)

    Tall Stories

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    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. Bu...

    Tall Stories
  • 1978
    Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe

    Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe (1978)

    Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe

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    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 everyda...

    Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe
  • 1974
    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho (1974)

    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

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    Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
  • 2021
    A Present Light

    A Present Light (2021)

    A Present Light

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    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 motorb...

    A Present Light
  • 1988
    A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

    A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional (1988)

    A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional

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

    A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
  • 2008
    O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta

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

    O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta

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

    O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
  • 2018
    Anteroom

    Anteroom (2018)

    Anteroom

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    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 int...

    Anteroom
  • 1984
    Signals of Life

    Signals of Life (1984)

    Signals of Life

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    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....

    Signals of Life
  • 1993
    Zéfiro

    Zéfiro (1993)

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    Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with the South of Portugal, singling it out as a place where various cultures came together and mix, giving birth to a singular identity, as unique as this mo...

    Zéfiro
  • 2013
    The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John

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

    The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John

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    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, contr...

    The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John
  • 2007
    Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side

    Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side (2007)

    Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side

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    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 Olivei...

    Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
  • 1984
    Lisboa Cultural

    Lisboa Cultural (1984)

    Lisboa Cultural

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    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...

    Lisboa Cultural
  • 2021
    Pathos

    Pathos (2021)

    Pathos

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    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...

    Pathos
  • 2000
    Erros Meus

    Erros Meus (2000)

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    Erros Meus