Manoel de Oliveira

The story of an aging French actor who - after learning his family has been killed in an accident - still carries on with his career, enjoys his morning espresso and newspaper, appreciates the endless beauty that is Paris, and takes a stand against the philistinism that plagues his professional life. (Film Forum)

A young history professor and her seven-year-old daughter embark on a cruise through the Mediterranean Sea and befriend three famous women of different nationalities. (Kino International)

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room, to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover. (imdb)

The mythical Portuguese king D. Sebastião, missing in the battle of Alcácer-Quibir (1578), is at the center of the story.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. (imdb)

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 her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? (imdb)

38 years after the original story, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night in a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and with sadism takes a slow and painful revenge on her. (IMDb)

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition. (imdb)

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based on Vieira's own writings. (answers.com)

Asked to contribute to a French television series on views of France through the eyes of foreign directors, Manoel de Oliveira chose Nice and intercuts scenes from the work of Jean Vigo.

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Oporto. (imdb)

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

A serious case of originality, creativity and innovation coming from someone who is often considered cinema's boring old geezer, here adapting reputed early 20th century Portuguese poet and drama author José Régio's O MEU CASO. (imdb)

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. (imdb)

A movie in three parts; a one-act play, a short story, and a fable, bringing them all together brilliantly (combustiblecelluloid.com)

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England. (imdb)

A young woman claims that the Holy Spirit has impregnated her.

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

Manoel is 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. (imdb)

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blond woman that turns his life upside down.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy. (imdb)

Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one. (imdb)

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society. (imdb)

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

Documentary-influenced film that follows a band of children on the streets of Manoel de Oliveira's home city of Oporto.

Lisbon, a normal day in one of the typical narrow streets of the capital of Portugal. In a small house, in a dirty little street, in a dark corner of the city lives a poor blind beggar, which earns his living through the selling of useless trinkets such as buttons, erasers and other paraphernalia.... (imdb comments)

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

On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa.

A journey through the Portugese city of Oporto, as seen through the memories of film director Manoel de Oliveira, who shows us the city that doesn't exist anymore.

Set in the 1950s, a photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

One of Manoel de Oliveira's first films. It's a short documentary about Famalicão, a parish in Guarda (Portugal). (Surreal Moviez)

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

José and Roberto are friends, and they 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 hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. They form a human chain to pull the victim out, but their affliction mounts, as they have no strategy for doing it, and they can't understand each other. (imdb)

A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. (imdb)

The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and rhythm of the cinematography. (imdb)

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 America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter. (imdb)

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son. (imdb)

A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal. (imdb)

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

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

A special surreal encounter between Nikita Khrouchtchev and the Pope John XXIII. (imdb)

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 Manoel de Oliveira. (imdb)

Memories of Manoel de Oliveira, made in 1981, to be shown after his death.

Each day, a man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills, manipulation of the flour into actual bread, transport to a variety of locations and consumers.