Personal Info
Birth date
1959-01-01 (66 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Also known as
-Manuel Mozos
Biography
Manuel Mozos (born June 1959, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese film director. Mozos studied history and philosophy before enrolling at the School of Theatre and Cinema, where he specialized as an editor. He was responsible for the editing of several films, and in 1989, he directed Um Passo, Outro Passo e Depois... In 1992, he directed his first feature, Xavier. Since then he has also directed several documentaries and video clips, including 4 Hearts, produced and released by Rosa Filmes.
Filmography
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
6.5
Overview:
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
7.1
Overview:
Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!4 Hearts
6.8
Overview:
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.O Capacete Dourado
5.6
Overview:
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.Poor George
5.1
Overview:
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.A Woman's Revenge
6.208
Overview:
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.Vertiges
6.833
Overview:
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
6.389
Overview:
Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.John From
5.9
Overview:
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.The Portuguese Nun
6.273
Overview:
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.João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
7.5
Overview:
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.Légua
5.5
Overview:
At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challenges her mother's choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.The Face You Deserve
5.9
Overview:
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".Lovely Child
6.2
Overview:
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.The Heart's Root
5.7
Overview:
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 politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.The Mountains of the Moon
5.3
Overview:
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.O Miradouro da Lua
8
Overview:
A young theater student receives an invitation from his unknown father to go to Angola with him. On the trip, he meets an Angolan student who returns to his country. When he goes to his father's address, he has a big surprise and his life will change ...Ruins
6.5
Overview:
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal
6.2
Overview:
On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films. For almost 90 years, nothing more was known: no reply was ever found and Régio never mentioned the subject again. The discovery of some old reels in a collector’s hoard seems to provide the ending to the story.Primeira Obra
1
Overview:
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 Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.Xavier
6.8
Overview:
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.Passagem por Lisboa
3.5
Overview:
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 countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of Windsor, Primo de Rivera, Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, Walter Schellenberg and Juan Garcia are often together in the luxury hotels and night-clubs. Espionage and crime go hand in hand, despite of, or encouraged by, the Portuguese secret police.Encoberto
NYR
Overview:
Vargas is an undercover agent whose mission is to capture a group of robbers. The robbery of a jewelry store will be the ideal moment to catch them in the act. After a conversation with Ricardo, one of the group's members, Vargas questions his view of the enemy, making the mission much more difficult.Ashes and Embers
4.8
Overview:
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 discipline is a vampire for the other, but rather as if they were the different faces of the same coin, drawn to coexist and repel each other. As if every film belonged to a lonely species, Ashes and Embers shows a unique arrogance as it trembles, somewhat defenseless, with no certainty that the folds of fiction constitute any kind of survival guarantee for such strange objects. Memory and ghosts are two words that are easily said, but in this singular and very refined film they seem destined to become the ultimate goal of cinema, and its most endurable desire.Veneno Cura
5.5
Overview:
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.Tony
NYR
Overview:
Jorge, a very shy young man, works as bellboy in a Lisbon hotel and lives in a guesthouse where he is constantly harassed by the owner’s daughter. As he tries to resist her charms, the boy dreams of one thing only: to incarnate the singer Tony de Matos. This obsession leads him to sign up for an unique karaoke contest, where he will finally be able to give life to his longtime hero. And it’s amid a group of strange characters that Jorge will understand that, after all, he is not alone.Bruno Aleixo's Film
7.1
Overview:
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.Acting
2025Reaping Cherries as Médico
2024Tempos de Escola as Manuel Mozos
2023Légua as Padre Guilherme
2023Uma História do Espectador de Cinema as Montador
2023Primeira Obra as Arquivista ANIM
2022Love Lights as Unknown
2022Encoberto as Bernardo
2020The Journey as Himself
2020Bruno Aleixo's Film as Unknown
2019Technoboss as Don Ramiro
2019Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos as Unknown
2018Drifters of a shadowy dream as Import / export operator
2018How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal as Mr. Moitinho de Almeida
2015João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved as Self
2015Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One as Detetor de Mentiras
2015The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal as Narrator (voice)
2013Rex Inutilis as Unknown
2012Times Are Changing, Not Me as Himself
2012A Woman's Revenge as Unknown
2011A Portuguese Film as Himself
2011Demain? as Invité du Mariage
2011Pai Natal as Unknown
2009The Portuguese Nun as Receptionista
2008Veneno Cura as Customer at 'Imperatriz'
2007O Capacete Dourado as Presidente Duarte
2005The Face You Deserve as Harry
2001A Noite do Golpe de Estado as (voice)
2000Christmas Inventory as Unknown
2000The Heart's Root as Young Man at the Party
1994Far Away from Here as Stationmaster
1993Poor George as Highschool Teacher Costa
1990Lovely Child as Man Smoking in Dressing Room (uncredited)
1985Vertiges as Le violon
Directing
2022Behind Those Walls ... Director
2020Sobre as Armas e o Povo ... Director
2019Sophia, In Her Own Words ... Director
2018Ramiro ... Director
2015João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved ... Director
2015The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal ... Director
2015Ashes and Embers ... Director
20094 Hearts ... Director
2009Ruins ... Director
2009Aldina Duarte: Princesa Prometida ... Director
2007Olhar o Cinema Português: 1896-2006 ... Director
2000When It Thunders ... Director
2000Crescei e Multiplicai-vos ... Director
1999Cinema — Alguns Cortes: Censura ... Director
1998José Cardoso Pires - Diário de Bordo ... Director
1997Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa ... Director
1994Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista ... Director
1991Xavier ... Director
1990Step by Step ... Director
Writing
2019Sophia, In Her Own Words ... Writer
20094 Hearts ... Writer
2009Ruins ... Writer
2005The Face You Deserve ... Writer
2000When It Thunders ... Writer
2000Crescei e Multiplicai-vos ... Writer
1997Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa ... Writer
1993Poor George ... Writer
1991Xavier ... Writer
1990Lovely Child ... Writer
1990Step by Step ... Writer
Editing
2010Tony ... Editor
20094 Hearts ... Editor
2002Jogo da Glória ... Editor
2000Christmas Inventory ... Editor
2000Black & White ... Editor
2000Boris and Jeremiah ... Editor
1999Cães Sem Coleira ... Editor
1999Vianna da Motta, Cenas Portuguesas ... Editor
1994Passagem por Lisboa ... Editor
1993O Miradouro da Lua ... Editor
1991Xavier ... Editor
1988Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss ... Editor
1987The Mountains of the Moon ... Assistant Editor