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Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes is a Portuguese film actress who made her film debut in The Cannibals for director Manoel de Oliveira in 1988. She has appeared in most of Oliveira's films since then.
Total trailers found: 42
08 August 1997
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
13 May 2001
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
31 October 2018
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 revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
10 July 2014
João still lives at home with his parents. With absolutely no idea what to do with his life, he leaves the city centre to hang out in the outskirts.
31 March 2016
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara.
13 July 2025
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World.
10 September 1997
In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back.
07 November 2025
The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of some mysteries, form the perfect trilogy by the Countess of Ségur on education, social, religious, and political power.
31 August 2003
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean.
12 October 1990
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
19 May 1998
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death.
08 September 2006
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle de Jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert.
10 November 1988
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 style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes.
06 September 1995
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
29 December 2010
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica.
27 June 1996
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa.
19 November 2025
Gaspard, a teenager from the suburbs of Lisbon, falls into the hands of the Ogre, a man who has made a pact with the Devil.
30 April 2009
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
05 October 2020
The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star.
17 November 2000
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 abolish slavery.
22 September 1999
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love.
12 April 2023
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back.
10 September 2012
Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family.
16 May 1997
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
09 March 2006
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda.
01 September 1993
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr.
11 October 1991
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
17 May 2002
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
12 December 1991
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
07 May 2023
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them.
11 August 2016
“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship.
10 December 2020
The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana.
06 September 2007
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.
11 May 2023
In a family-run hotel near the northern coast of Portugal, several women from the same family, spanning different generations, live together.
21 August 1992
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
19 September 2001
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
11 December 2007
A tribute documentary to Manoel de Oliveira, on occasion of his 100th birthday.
21 August 1992
Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments.
06 October 1993
Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial i�
24 May 2023
The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, the richest man in town, to raise her.
16 September 1994
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
