Manuela Couto

Acting

Manuela Couto

Born 1958-04-05 · Setúbal, Portugal

Acting credits

Fátima poster
7.5

1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.

Fátima

1997

Impossible Love poster
5.4

Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers (Marco and Madalena) investigate the case and try to find the truth.

Impossible Love

2015

100 Meters poster
7.4

Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.

100 Meters

2016

Grand Tour poster
6.6

Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he flees into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, the free-spirited Molly-amused by his moves-follows in pursuit, embarking on a globe-trotting cat-and-mouse chase.

Grand Tour

2024

No artwork available
NR

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

Weekend

2007

Antonio, a Boy in Lisbon poster
7.0

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Antonio, a Boy in Lisbon

2002

Al Berto poster
6.2

Portugal, 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town ran by communist winds. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.

Al Berto

2017

Blood Curse poster
5.9

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.

Blood Curse

2006

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé poster
10.0

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.

Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

1993

Poor George poster
5.0

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.

Poor George

1993

Amadeo poster
6.6

Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?

Amadeo

2023

Arrabalde poster
2.0

Two friends cannot find their way around the city of Lisbon. It is a film, which could be a poem, that has no genre and serves as a bridge between the narratives, forms, and dreams of the characters they encounter.

Arrabalde

2024

Under the Mountains' Shadow poster
6.0

Pedro travels for the first time in one of the vans leading a group of workers to France. While, for the others, this is another work trip, each kilometer brings Pedro closer to a place that seduces him: the colossal mountains of the Alps.

Under the Mountains' Shadow

2025

O Leão da Estrela poster
6.1

The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?

O Leão da Estrela

2015

Olga Drummond poster
NR

A homage to all Portuguese actors. The news that Olga Drummond, the greatest Portuguese actress of all-time, is arriving to a nursing home for performers provokes agitation between residents and workers.

Olga Drummond

2020