Manuel Mozos Movies

The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that...

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of...

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

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...

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.

Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European...

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...

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the...

An addition to As Armas e o Povo (1975), filmed at the Lisbon Cinemateca in 2019.

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...

Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.

The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António...

What is the possibility of knowing a man who died fifty years ago, if everyone who closely shared with him disappeared, or were too young to really...

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...

In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way...

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.