Manoel de Oliveira

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

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and ...

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the ...

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

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. ...

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her ...

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that ...

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio’s historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal ...

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and ...

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

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

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

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to ...

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, ...

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

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 ...

From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Through Luís de Camões and Prince Henry the ...

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 enigmatic ...

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

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.

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her ...

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

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan ...

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

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of ...

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part – a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the ...