Name: Francisca
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Released: 1981
Cast: Diogo Dória, Manuela de Freitas, Teresa Meneses, Cécilia Guimarães, Paulo Rocha

Diogo Dória

Manuela de Freitas

Teresa Meneses

Cécilia Guimarães

Paulo Rocha

Adelaide João

Mário Barroso

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Francisca

Marcello Mastroianni

Jean-Yves Gautier

Leonor Silveira

Isabel de Castro

Cécile Sanz de Alba

José Afonso

Isabel Ruth

Adelaide Teixeira

José Maria Vaz da Silva

Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel is 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.

Voyage to the Beggining of the World

Viagem ao princípio do mundo

Luis Miguel Cintra

Oliveira Lopes

Pedro T. da Silva

Joel Costa

Rogério Samora

Rogério Vieira

António Loja Neves

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

The Cannibals

Os Canibais

Laura Morante

Philip J. Spinelli

Georges Claisse

Teresa Villaverde

Sérgio Antunes

Rita Figueiredo

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrives looking for Robert.

Hovering Over the Water

À Flor do Mar

Portuguese

VOST - SD

Ruy Furtado

Sabina Sacchi

Teresa Calado

Duarte de Almeida

João César Monteiro

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city&#x27;s waterfront.

Recollections of the Yellow House

Recordacoes da casa amarela

Jean Douchet

Max Monteiro

Raquel Ascenção

Claudia Teixeira

Rui Luís

Jo&atilde;o de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Para&iacute;so dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.

God's Comedy

A Comédia de Deus

Rita Pereira Marques

Joaquina Chicau

Jo&atilde;o Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son&#x27;s release from prison and Jo&atilde;o&#x27;s ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

Come and Go

Vai~E~Vem

Maria de Saisset

Bárbara Vieira

Alberto Inácio

Pedro Pinheiro

Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.

Past and Present

O Passado e o Presente

Zita Duarte

Jorge Silva Melo

Clara Joana

Yoshiko Mita

Theatrical drama influenced by the Portuguese medieval poem of the same name, about an island promised to Lusitanian warriors by the Goddess Venus.

A Ilha dos Amores

Emiko Akagawa

Adelaide Moraes Costa

Venceslau de Couto

Henrique de Senna Fernandes

A portrait of the orientalist Portuguese author Wenceslao de Moraes.

A Ilha de Moraes

Nicolau Nunes da Silva

Ermelinda Pires

Maria Madalena

Amélia Chaves

Luis de Sousa

Francisco Luís

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text.

Rite of Spring

O Acto da primavera

António Sequeira Lopes

Cristina Hauser

Elsa Wellencamp

António Costa

Ricardo Pais

María Dulce

At the beginning of XIX century, Th&eacute;r&egrave;se and Simon come from two rivals noble families. When the two see each other for the first time, they fall in love.

Fated Love

Amor de perdição

Nascimento Fernandes

Fernanda Matos

Horácio Silva

António Santos

António Palma

António Morais Soares

The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has &quot;played it tough&quot; by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.&nbsp;

Aniki-Bóbó

João Rocha de Almeida

Antonio Rodrigues dos Santos

Albino Freitas

Jos&eacute; and Roberto are friends, and they decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. They form a human chain to pull the victim out, but their affliction mounts, as they have no strategy for doing it, and they can&#x27;t understand each other.

A Caça

Catherine Deneuve

Michel Piccoli

John Malkovich

Antoine Chappey

Leonor Baldaque

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. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he&#39;s used to. But the roles he is offered, a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce&#39;s Ulysses, finally convince him that it&#39;s time to retire.

I'm going Home

Ruy de Carvalho

Luís Lima Barreto

Micheline Larpin

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father&#x27;s friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover.

Val Abraham

Vale Abraão

Teresa Madruga

Maria Isabel de Oliveira

<div class="summary_text">A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira&#x27;s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.</div>

Visit or Memories and Confessions

Visita ou Memórias e Confissões

Français

VOST - HD

Stefania Sandrelli

Irène Papas

Filipa de Almeida

Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden, and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.

A Talking Picture

Um filme falado

Freebox - VOST - SD

Pilar López de Ayala

Sara Carinhas

Ricardo Trêpa

A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

The Strange Case of Angelica

O estranho caso de Angélica

french

Freebox - VF - HD

Freebox - VF - SD

Pierre Richard

Corynne Charbit

Michel Robin

André Valardy

Michel Fortin

Robert Dalban

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu "la concentration et les acteurs"

Ciné regards

C'est quoi Gérard Depardieu ?

Blow up - ARTE

Pierre Richard à propos du tournage de La Chèvre de Francis Veber

Les dossiers de l'écran

Ciné regards 29/04/1979 : Gérard Depardieu "la concentration et les acteurs"

Blow up - ARTE : C'est quoi Gérard Depardieu ?

President Bens&#x27; daughter has disappeared somewhere in South America. Campana, a private detective, comes back empty handed from an extensive search of the continent. There is only one thing left for Bens to do: send Fran&ccedil;ois Perrin, a man as jinxed as his daughter, to find her! So the unlikely pair starts off on their mission: the straight-laced Campana and Perrin with his burden of bad luck and his truckload of unflappable optimism.

La Chèvre

Deutsch

french - SME

VF - HD

VF - SD

Isabelle Huppert

Jerzy Radziwilowicz

László Szabó

Hanna Schygulla

Hommage an Jean-Luc Godard

Piccoli Trois heures du mat...

Cinéma Cinémas

Jean-Luc Godard en 9 minutes

C’est quoi Isabelle Huppert ?

Blow up – ARTE

Jean-Luc Godard par Thierry Jousse

Quand le cinéma cite Godard

Les Génériques de Jean-Luc Godard

Top 5 musical Jean-Luc Godard

Cinéma Cinémas 18/11/1986 : Piccoli Trois heures du mat...

Blow up - ARTE : Jean-Luc Godard en 9 minutes

Blow up - ARTE : C’est quoi Isabelle Huppert ?

In a provincial factory, a war of attrition takes place between the manager and a female worker who wants to set up a union group. At the local hotel, a similar confrontation opposes the local population and a film crew.

Nouvelle Vague

Passion

Omero Antonutti

Margarita Lozano

Dario Cantarelli

Enrica Maria Modugno

Claudio Bigagli

Massimo Bonetti

Norma Martelli

Sabina Vannucchi

Sergi Dagliana

Giuseppe Furia

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumors that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

The Night of the Shooting Stars

La Notte di San Lorenzo

Francisca

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