Manoel de Oliveira Movies

The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A commission by Serralves Foundation to...

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...

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

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...

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

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace.

Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal,...

Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque...

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his...

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his...

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

An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.

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

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious...

Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal.

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, according to a 16th century text.