Luís Miguel Cintra
Bekend om: Acting
Verjaardag: 1949-04-29
Geboorteplaats: Madrid, Spain
Ook gekend als:
Word and Utopia
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...
Vrijlating : 2000.11.17Populariteit : 1.925
My Case
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...
Vrijlating : 1986.09.25Populariteit : 2.265
Recollections of the Yellow House
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...
Vrijlating : 1989.10.12Populariteit : 3.14
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...
Vrijlating : 1990.10.12Populariteit : 3.899
The Divine Comedy
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha...
Vrijlating : 1991.10.11Populariteit : 4.18
Gebo and the Shadow
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...
Vrijlating : 2012.09.10Populariteit : 3.3
Romance de Vila do Conde
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.
Vrijlating : 2008.08.28Populariteit : 1.253
The Satin Slipper
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...
Vrijlating : 1985.09.24Populariteit : 1.868
Second Hand
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.
Vrijlating : 2013.06.19Populariteit : 1.02
Here on Earth
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...
Vrijlating : 1993.09.09Populariteit : 1.39
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...
Vrijlating : 2011.10.16Populariteit : 1.018
The Days When I Don’t Exist
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...
Vrijlating : 2003.10.08Populariteit : 0.88
Tall Stories
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...
Vrijlating : 1988.03.11Populariteit : 1.125
Blind Man's Bluff
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.
Vrijlating : 1994.11.18Populariteit : 2.297
Peixe-Lua
The story of a family of bull fighters.
Vrijlating : 2000.09.29Populariteit : 1.953
Rending
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Vrijlating : 2001.11.30Populariteit : 1.303
Truth or Dare?
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...
Vrijlating : 2023.09.12Populariteit : 0.661
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
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...
Vrijlating : 2013.09.10Populariteit : 0.928
The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John
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,...
Vrijlating : 2013.11.13Populariteit : 0.478
A Pousada das Chagas
A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.
Vrijlating : 1972.02.25Populariteit : 0.802
Blood
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...
Vrijlating : 1989.12.07Populariteit : 3.298
Day of Despair
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Vrijlating : 1992.10.30Populariteit : 0.818
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,...
Vrijlating : 1993.02.26Populariteit : 1.177
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...
Vrijlating : 2022.08.03Populariteit : 0.719
Around Rocha’s Table
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional...
Vrijlating : 2021.08.08Populariteit : 0.685
The Old Man of Belem
Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...
Vrijlating : 2014.12.11Populariteit : 0.707
Where the Sun Beats
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...
Vrijlating : 1989.09.10Populariteit : 2.631
The Fifth Empire
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...
Vrijlating : 2004.09.09Populariteit : 1.327
Transatlantique
In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence...
Vrijlating : 1997.09.03Populariteit : 2.698
Alcibíades
A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his...
Vrijlating : 1992.01.01Populariteit : 1.34
The Convent
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...
Vrijlating : 1995.09.06Populariteit : 2.714
O Filme Feliz :)
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...
Vrijlating : 2023.07.15Populariteit : 0.718
Magic Mirror
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...
Vrijlating : 2006.03.09Populariteit : 1.52
The Dancer Upstairs
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Vrijlating : 2002.09.20Populariteit : 4.422
The Sword and the Rose
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...
Vrijlating : 2010.09.09Populariteit : 0.794
As Bodas de Deus
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Vrijlating : 1999.10.15Populariteit : 2.342
Correspondences
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...
Vrijlating : 2016.08.04Populariteit : 2.042
Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
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...
Vrijlating : 2007.01.01Populariteit : 0.599
Lisboa Cultural
Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of...
Vrijlating : 1984.09.28Populariteit : 1.425
Días color naranja
Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe
Vrijlating : 2016.11.10Populariteit : 0.962
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
Vrijlating : 2007.02.28Populariteit : 0.571
Abraham's Valley
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...
Vrijlating : 1993.09.01Populariteit : 3.685
The world that was (and that is)
The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.
Vrijlating : 2011.01.01Populariteit : 1.898
Casa de Lava
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...
Vrijlating : 1995.02.10Populariteit : 4.575
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
Vrijlating : 2009.04.30Populariteit : 1.776
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
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...
Vrijlating : 2007.09.06Populariteit : 2.573
A Talking Picture
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...
Vrijlating : 2003.08.31Populariteit : 4.336
The Letter
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...
Vrijlating : 1999.09.22Populariteit : 1.984
The Uncertainty Principle
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Vrijlating : 2002.05.17Populariteit : 1.577
April Captains
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...
Vrijlating : 2000.04.21Populariteit : 3.956
Silvestre
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Vrijlating : 1982.05.06Populariteit : 1.301
The Strange Case of Angelica
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through...
Vrijlating : 2010.12.29Populariteit : 2.781
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...
Vrijlating : 2000.10.18Populariteit : 0.719
Island of Loves
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...
Vrijlating : 1982.06.08Populariteit : 1.756
Anxiety
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...
Vrijlating : 1998.05.19Populariteit : 2.871
The Cannibals
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...
Vrijlating : 1988.11.10Populariteit : 2.775
Two Brothers, My Sister
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...
Vrijlating : 1994.11.04Populariteit : 1.109
The Mountains of the Moon
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...
Vrijlating : 1987.09.01Populariteit : 1.792
Rage
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...
Vrijlating : 2018.10.31Populariteit : 2.717
He Who Waits for Dead Man Shoes Dies Barefoot
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...
Vrijlating : 1970.01.01Populariteit : 1.012
From Now On
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of...
Vrijlating : 2008.01.01Populariteit : 0.882
Vertiges
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...
Vrijlating : 1985.04.09Populariteit : 2.129
A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.
Vrijlating : 1988.12.09Populariteit : 0.631
The Last Dive
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,...
Vrijlating : 1992.09.18Populariteit : 1.225
Fragments of an Alms-Film
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...
Vrijlating : 1972.01.01Populariteit : 0.725
Villa Mauresque
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...
Vrijlating : 1993.07.07Populariteit : 0.733
Gestures and Fragments
"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...
Vrijlating : 1983.02.22Populariteit : 1.455
Ninguém Duas Vezes
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...
Vrijlating : 1985.04.24Populariteit : 1.107
Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe
A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the...
Vrijlating : 1978.09.01Populariteit : 0.512
Anteroom
Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film...
Vrijlating : 2018.10.24Populariteit : 0.487
Zéfiro
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...
Vrijlating : 1993.08.01Populariteit : 0.884
Illusion
Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play...
Vrijlating : 2014.10.01Populariteit : 0.584
O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do...
Vrijlating : 1977.10.01Populariteit : 2.314
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
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...
Vrijlating : 1979.01.01Populariteit : 0.652
The Jester
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...
Vrijlating : 1987.10.31Populariteit : 1.277
Snow White
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...
Vrijlating : 2000.10.11Populariteit : 1.092
War
The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly...
Vrijlating : 2020.10.22Populariteit : 1.565
O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.
Vrijlating : 2008.09.21Populariteit : 0.304
Signals of Life
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...
Vrijlating : 1984.04.13Populariteit : 0.685
A Present Light
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...
Vrijlating : 2021.03.01Populariteit : 0.652
Pathos
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....
Vrijlating : 2021.12.01Populariteit : 1.997
Pathos Ethos Logos
The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability...
Vrijlating : 2021.08.09Populariteit : 0.667
Biette
Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
Vrijlating : 2013.06.26Populariteit : 0.659