Manoel de Oliveira Movies

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and...

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

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.

The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in...

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...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's...

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...

Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to...

Two friends decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a...

Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.

Film about Calouste Gulbenkian, produced for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of...

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha.