Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha....

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 (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the mult...

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of Portuguese culture. The camera shows from a distance, or in minute detail, the monuments or art pieces...

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....

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 hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. T...

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

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

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...

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...

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

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 by the book "Cristóvão Colon Era Português"....

A group of tourists arrives to the historical center of Guimarães. The camera goes up over the shoulder of Alfonso Henriques' statue. The first king of Portugal, holding up his sword, demands respect. Nevertheless, from there we see how the group of ...

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

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

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

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....

Documentary deciphers the films and sheds light on the figure of a creator both serious and facetious, haunted by the history of his country and gender relations....

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

Manoel de Oliveira's homage to Vila do Conde, with a poem by José Régio. It was shot in 1965, but only completed in 2008....