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

• 2026A Few Things Happening by a River
• 2026A Voz de Todos – Jornal do Fundão — Director
• 2026Providence and the Guitar — Dono do Hotel da Cabeça Negra
• 2025Reaping Cherries — Médico
• 2024Tempos de Escola — Manuel Mozos
• 2023Légua — Padre Guilherme
• 2023Primeira Obra — Arquivista ANIM
• 2023Uma História do Espectador de Cinema — Montador
• 2022Behind Those Walls — Director
• 2022Encoberto — Bernardo
• 2022Love Lights
• 2020Bruno Aleixo's Film
• 2020Sobre as Armas e o Povo — Director
• 2019Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos
• 2019Sophia, In Her Own Words — Director, Writer
• 2019Technoboss — Don Ramiro
• 2018Drifters of a shadowy dream — Import / export operator
• 2018How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal — Mr. Moitinho de Almeida
• 2018Ramiro — Director
• 2016How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras — Thanks
• 2016John From — Thanks
• 2015Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One — Detetor de Mentiras
• 2015Ashes and Embers — Director
• 2015João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved — Self, Director
• 2015The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal — Narrator (voice), Director
• 2013Rex Inutilis
• 2012A Woman's Revenge
• 2011Demain? — Invité du Mariage
• 2011Pai Natal
• 2010Tony — Editor
• 20094 Hearts — Writer, Director, Editor
• 2009Aldina Duarte: Princesa Prometida — Director
• 2009Ruins — Director, Writer
• 2009The Portuguese Nun — Receptionista
• 2008Veneno Cura — Customer at 'Imperatriz'
• 2007O Capacete Dourado — Presidente Duarte
• 2007Olhar o Cinema Português: 1896-2006 — Director
• 2005The Face You Deserve — Harry, Writer
• 2002Jogo da Glória — Editor
• 2001A Noite do Golpe de Estado — (voice)
• 2001Fragile as the World — Thanks
• 2000Black & White — Editor
• 2000Boris and Jeremiah — Editor
• 2000Christmas Inventory — Editor
• 2000Crescei e Multiplicai-vos — Director, Writer
• 2000The Heart's Root — Young Man at the Party
• 2000When It Thunders — Director, Writer
• 1999Cinema — Alguns Cortes: Censura — Director
• 1999Cães Sem Coleira — Editor
• 1999Vianna da Motta, Cenas Portuguesas — Editor
• 1998José Cardoso Pires - Diário de Bordo — Director
• 1997Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa — Director, Writer
• 1994Far Away from Here — Stationmaster
• 1994Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista — Director
• 1994Passagem por Lisboa — Editor
• 1993O Miradouro da Lua — Editor
• 1993Poor George — Highschool Teacher Costa, Writer
• 1991Xavier — Director, Writer, Editor
• 1990Lovely Child — Man Smoking in Dressing Room (uncredited), Writer
• 1990Palolo, Coisa de Pintar — Editor
• 1990Step by Step — Writer, Director
• 1988Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss — Editor
• 1987The Mountains of the Moon — Assistant Editor
• 1985Vertiges — Le violon

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2026Don't Look Away — Self
• 2020The Journey — Himself
• 2012Times Are Changing, Not Me — Himself
• 2011A Portuguese Film — Himself