Manuel Mozos
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1959-01-01
Locus Natus: Lisbon, Portugal
Et ut:
Encoberto
Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store will be the ideal moment to catch them...
release : 2022.07.05popularis : 1.106
Légua
At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the...
release : 2023.12.13popularis : 4.198
The Face You Deserve
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are...
release : 2005.03.23popularis : 2.516
Poor George
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...
release : 1993.02.26popularis : 1.754
Love Lights
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...
release : 2022.08.03popularis : 1.026
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...
release : 2015.10.08popularis : 0.52
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...
release : 2015.07.29popularis : 5.795
The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal
On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making...
release : 2015.07.06popularis : 2.24
A Woman's Revenge
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...
release : 2012.03.29popularis : 2.488
The Heart's Root
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...
release : 2000.10.18popularis : 1.469
The Portuguese Nun
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
release : 2009.08.09popularis : 3.442
Lovely Child
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
release : 1990.05.04popularis : 0.95
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink...
release : 2018.10.11popularis : 1.806
A Portuguese Film
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
release : 2011.10.28popularis : 1.516
Times Are Changing, Not Me
Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.
release : 2012.04.21popularis : 0.175
Bruno Aleixo's Film
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a...
release : 2020.01.23popularis : 1.936
Rex Inutilis
Tiago is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine, he will fail once again. Between...
release : 2013.10.17popularis : 1.103
Pai Natal
The story of a young cinephile, who, coming from Braga, arrives in Lisbon, where he found a peculiar and fleeting job. Between the dark movie...
release : 2011.03.11popularis : 0.345
Christmas Inventory
A family gathers to celebrate Christmas.
release : 2000.12.15popularis : 2.183
Drifters of a shadowy dream
X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding...
release : 2018.12.10popularis : 1.196
Technoboss
The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by...
release : 2019.11.07popularis : 1.873
O Capacete Dourado
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...
release : 2007.09.19popularis : 1.651
Demain?
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...
release : 2011.10.16popularis : 2.873
A Noite do Golpe de Estado
The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that...
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 0.839
Vertiges
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...
release : 1985.04.09popularis : 2.761
Veneno Cura
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
release : 2008.10.23popularis : 1.337
Far Away from Here
Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s...
release : 1994.04.29popularis : 0.987
Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos
In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship...
release : 2019.05.09popularis : 1.275
The Journey
A filmmaker and an actress travel towards a remote location, in search of a particular house, and of inspiration for their next movie. The region is...
release : 2020.10.07popularis : 0.209