Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

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

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...

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

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident...

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

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 plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...

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

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.