Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

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...

Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.

Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal,...

Aninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha...

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

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

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

A group of tourists arrives to the historical center of Guimarães. The camera goes up over the shoulder of Alfonso Henriques' statue. The...

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...

Film about Calouste Gulbenkian, produced for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

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

A tribute documentary to Manoel de Oliveira, on occasion of his 100th birthday.

A conversation between the filmmaker Manoel de Olivieira and the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís.

Each day, 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...

A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Pope John XXIII is screened.

A look at various statues in the city of Lisbon. This film is incomplete and was distributed against the will of the director.

A look at the life in the small village Vilaverdinho, in the North of Portugal. Oliveira made this film as a present for a friend. It has only been...