Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

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

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

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

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

A satirical short film about technology.

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

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

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

Every year the Viennale invites a famous director to produce a short film as the festival trailer. In 2014 the choice has fallen on the 105-year old...

Two friends decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...