Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making...

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.

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...

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

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

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

Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has...