Luís Miguel Cintra
An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949. His connection to theater began in 1968, at the Faculty of Letters Theater Group, when he was studying Romance Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1970 to 1972, he attended the Acting Technical Course, in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, thanks to a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. When he returned to Portugal, he founded, along with Jorge Silva Melo, the Teatro da Cornucópia Company, in 1973, where he directed plays by some of the great names in theater, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Strindberg, and many others, almost always participating as an actor in the plays he directed. At the same time, until the 80s, he was a theater critic for O Tempo e o Modo magazine and he managed the Seara Nova Theater Collection, from Estampa publishing house, and the Theater Collection, from Ulmeiro publishing house. As a reader, Luís Miguel Cintra recorded complete readings of Viagens na Minha Terra, by Almeida Garrett and Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco, as well as poems by Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Camões, Antero de Quental and Ruy Belo. In 1987, Cintra made his debut as an opera stage director, with L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, by Ravel and Dido and Aeneas, by Purcell, at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. In the following years, he directed operas by Mozart, Haydn, Cherubini, among others. He worked with the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos Choir and the Gulbenkian Choir, as a reader, in recitals by authors such as Schubert, Liszt, Sati and Poulenc. In 1984, he entered the Venice Biennial Theater Festival with his group and in 1988 he directed the show La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments, by Fernando Pessoa, for the Avignon Festival. Later, he kept on presenting plays in Italy, France, Spain and. Belgium In addition to the theater, Luís Miguel Cintra began his career in cinema early, making his debut in a short film by João César Monteiro. From that point until now, he worked in over 70 films, with directors like the aforementioned João César Monteiro, Paulo Rocha, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Pinto, João Botelho, Teresa Villaverde, Pedro Costa and the American John Malkovich. His many awards include two Bordalo da Casa da Imprensa Awards for Best Acting in Film (1995) and Best Acting in Theater (1997), two Globos de Ouro for Theater Personality of the Year (1999) and Best Theater Actor (2003), the Coimbra University Award and the Pessoa Prize, both in 2005. The LEFFEST will pay tribute to Luís Miguel Cintra’s work as an actor, through a selection of films he starred in; and as a stage director, showing recordings of some of the plays, followed by discussions with the audience and several actors he worked with.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.324 |
Birthday | 1949-04-29 |
Place of Birth | Madrid, Spain |
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2000
Word and Utopia
5.056/9
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Word and Utopia
1986
My Case
6.7/6
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My Case
1989
Recollections of the Yellow House
8.196/23
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Recollections of the Yellow House
1990
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
6.075/20
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No, or the Vain Glory of Command
1991
The Divine Comedy
6.9/13
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1989
Blood
6.792/24
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Blood
2012
Gebo and the Shadow
6.9/14
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Gebo and the Shadow
1985
The Satin Slipper
7.3/7
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The Satin Slipper
2013
Second Hand
10/1
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.
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Second Hand
1993
Here on Earth
5.3/7
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 w...
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Here on Earth
2011
Demain?
2/1
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 tu...
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2003
The Days When I Don’t Exist
6.7/7
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1988
Tall Stories
5.7/6
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 friends...
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Tall Stories
1994
Blind Man's Bluff
6.7/10
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.
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Blind Man's Bluff
2013
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
4.5/4
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2000
Peixe-Lua
5/4
The story of a family of bull fighters.
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Peixe-Lua
2001
Rending
6/3
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
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Rending
2013
The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John
0/0
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, fil...
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The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John
1992
Day of Despair
6.2/9
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
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Day of Despair
1972
A Pousada das Chagas
5/2
A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.
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A Pousada das Chagas
2007
Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
0/0
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 Miguel Ci...
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Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
1993
Poor George
5.1/7
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, wh...
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Poor George
1989
Where the Sun Beats
5.3/6
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Where the Sun Beats
2014
The Old Man of Belem
4.5/4
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The Old Man of Belem
2004
The Fifth Empire
6/4
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's...
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1995
The Convent
5.4/24
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the document...
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The Convent
2006
Magic Mirror
6.4/8
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Magic Mirror
2002
The Dancer Upstairs
6.1/54
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
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The Dancer Upstairs
2010
The Sword and the Rose
3.6/5
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 prota...
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The Sword and the Rose
2016
Correspondences
6.6/6
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...
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Correspondences
1993
Abraham's Valley
7.533/30
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 friend,...
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Abraham's Valley
2016
Días color naranja
0/0
Ephemeral loves, days of summer freedom and the drift across Europe
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Días color naranja
2007
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
0/0
The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
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One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
2011
The world that was (and that is)
0/0
The flash of socialism that once lit Spain.
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1999
As Bodas de Deus
7.385/13
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
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As Bodas de Deus
1995
Casa de Lava
6.864/22
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Casa de Lava
2010
The Strange Case of Angelica
6.6/53
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens o...
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The Strange Case of Angelica
1982
Silvestre
6.1/9
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
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Silvestre
2009
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
6.2/36
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
2003
A Talking Picture
7.1/32
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 d...
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A Talking Picture
2007
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
5.3/10
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 by...
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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
1999
The Letter
5.9/8
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without des...
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The Letter
2000
April Captains
6.433/57
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salaz...
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April Captains
2002
The Uncertainty Principle
4.9/5
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
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The Uncertainty Principle
1998
Anxiety
6.4/8
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Anxiety
2000
The Heart's Root
5/2
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 politi...
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The Heart's Root
1982
Island of Loves
6.4/7
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 a...
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Island of Loves
1988
The Cannibals
6.813/16
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,...
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The Cannibals
1994
Two Brothers, My Sister
5.2/4
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...
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Two Brothers, My Sister
2018
Rage
6.8/14
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 r...
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Rage
1987
The Mountains of the Moon
5.3/3
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Ci...
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The Mountains of the Moon
1970
He Who Waits for Dead Man Shoes Dies Barefoot
4.7/7
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 sho...
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He Who Waits for Dead Man Shoes Dies Barefoot
2008
From Now On
2/1
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and h...
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From Now On
1985
Vertiges
6.5/5
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on th...
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Vertiges
1988
A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
0/0
An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.
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A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
1992
The Last Dive
6.7/11
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, giv...
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The Last Dive
1972
Fragments of an Alms-Film
6/5
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 practically live...
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Fragments of an Alms-Film
1993
Villa Mauresque
1/1
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 fall...
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Villa Mauresque
1983
Gestures and Fragments
8/1
"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 thr...
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Gestures and Fragments
2000
Erros Meus
0/0
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Erros Meus
1985
Ninguém Duas Vezes
5/4
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somew...
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Ninguém Duas Vezes
1978
Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe
0/0
A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the conflicts bet...
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Nem Pássaro Nem Peixe
1974
Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
0/0
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Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho
2018
Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia
0/0
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Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia
2018
Anteroom
0/0
Using video assist recorded images, Antecâmara is about the “act” of shooting, the physical reality and ritual energy of two film crews during the pre...
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Anteroom
1993
Zéfiro
0/0
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 whe...
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Zéfiro
2014
Illusion
0/0
Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion in ea...
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Illusion
1977
O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
0/0
O Outro Teatro proposes a look at the independent theater manifestations that came in the wake of the pioneering gestures of Teatro Experimental do P...
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O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores
1979
E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
0/0
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 complete...
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E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?
1987
The Jester
6.4/7
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells g...
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The Jester
2000
Snow White
4.8/4
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s ant...
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Snow White
2020
War
0/0
The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tor...
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War
2008
O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
0/0
Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.
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O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
1984
Signals of Life
0/0
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 insertion of br...
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Signals of Life
2021
A Present Light
4/1
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 th...
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A Present Light
2021
Pathos
0/0
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. The endl...
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Pathos
2021
Pathos Ethos Logos
7/2
The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to...
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Pathos Ethos Logos
2008
Romance de Vila do Conde
0/0
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.
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Romance de Vila do Conde
2022
Love Lights
0/0
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...
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Love Lights
2021
Around Rocha’s Table
0/0
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key...
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Around Rocha’s Table
1997
Transatlantique
2/1
In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence...
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Transatlantique
1992
Alcibíades
1/1
A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his strategies to s...
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Alcibíades
2023
Truth or Dare?
0/0
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...
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Truth or Dare?
2023
O Filme Feliz :)
0/0
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 past open up ne...
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Arrabalde
0/0
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