Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

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 father's...

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...

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

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...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and...

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...

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...

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

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 his...

A satirical short film about technology.

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy...

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

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

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's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

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

Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.