Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

  • 2007
    To Each His Own Cinema

    To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

    To Each His Own Cinema

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    Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the...

    To Each His Own Cinema
  • 1994
    Lisbon Story

    Lisbon Story (1994)

    Lisbon Story

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    Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him....

    Lisbon Story
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon (1978)

    Cinématon

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    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

    Cinématon
  • 2001
    I’m Going Home

    I’m Going Home (2001)

    I’m Going Home

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    The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...

    I’m Going Home
  • 1986
    My Case

    My Case (1986)

    My Case

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    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 scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same ma...

    My Case
  • 1993
    Abraham's Valley

    Abraham's Valley (1993)

    Abraham's Valley

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    Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to ...

    Abraham's Valley
  • 1995
    The Convent

    The Convent (1995)

    The Convent

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    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....

    The Convent
  • 1990
    No, or the Vain Glory of Command

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command

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    Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973....

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command
  • 2006
    Magic Mirror

    Magic Mirror (2006)

    Magic Mirror

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    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 pretension...

    Magic Mirror
  • 1981
    Francisca

    Francisca (1981)

    Francisca

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

    Francisca
  • 2015
    The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal

    The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal (2015)

    The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal

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    On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films. For almost 90 years, nothing more was known: no reply was ever found and Régio never mentioned the subject ag...

    The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal
  • 2014
    Henri Langlois vu par...

    Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)

    Henri Langlois vu par...

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    Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him....

    Henri Langlois vu par...
  • 2009
    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

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

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
  • 2011
    Guest

    Guest (2011)

    Guest

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    Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beat...

    Guest
  • 2010
    The Strange Case of Angelica

    The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

    The Strange Case of Angelica

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    A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. Fr...

    The Strange Case of Angelica
  • 2006
    Belle Toujours

    Belle Toujours (2006)

    Belle Toujours

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    38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her....

    Belle Toujours
  • 2013
    Biette

    Biette (2013)

    Biette

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

    Biette
  • 1986
    The Satin Slipper

    The Satin Slipper (1986)

    The Satin Slipper

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    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 Amer...

    The Satin Slipper
  • 2007
    The 15th Stone

    The 15th Stone (2007)

    The 15th Stone

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    Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then]. Two humanists of different philosophical backgrounds, both with their long, entire ...

    The 15th Stone
  • 1991
    The Divine Comedy

    The Divine Comedy (1991)

    The Divine Comedy

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    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....

    The Divine Comedy