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
  • 2010
    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever (2010)

    Sodankylä Forever

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    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe...

    Sodankylä Forever
  • 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
  • 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...
  • 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
  • 1997
    Voyage to the Beginning of the World

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World

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    Manoel is an 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....

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Invisible World

    Invisible World (2012)

    Invisible World

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    An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world....

    Invisible World
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2000
    Word and Utopia

    Word and Utopia (2000)

    Word and Utopia

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    The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery....

    Word and Utopia
  • 2003
    A Talking Picture

    A Talking Picture (2003)

    A Talking Picture

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    A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter a...

    A Talking Picture
  • 1963
    The Green Years

    The Green Years (1963)

    The Green Years

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    Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois t...

    The Green Years
  • 2012
    Gebo and the Shadow

    Gebo and the Shadow (2012)

    Gebo and the Shadow

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    Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to...

    Gebo and the Shadow
  • 1998
    Inquietude

    Inquietude (1998)

    Inquietude

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    An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and de...

    Inquietude