Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

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 day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter a...

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 abolish slavery....

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind....

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and de...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves Amer...

Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has testimonies from himself and various personalities of Portugal and Brazil that allow us to unravel his per...

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire....

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

A series of images documenting the floods of the river Tagus. This film has been recovered and made available by the Cinemateca Portuguesa....

The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. The impressionist realism of Cruz’s drawings dissolves into Oliveira’s vis...

A conversation between the filmmaker Manoel de Olivieira and the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís....

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 father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth....

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

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Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

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. Inspired by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português"....

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

A documentary following the process of sculpting in stone, from the creation to the final work of art....

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

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