Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

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"....

The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. The impressionist realism of Cruz’s drawings dissolves into Oliveira’s vis...

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

An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema....

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....

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

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....

Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto....

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about the figure of his father, his first experience of cinema as an actor, his past as a racing driver, his f...

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 ...

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

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012....

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Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal, owned by Manoel de Oliveira's father....

The film exhibited the community and the beach, "how I new and it was shown to me" (Manoel de Oliveira) by the Meneres family, that had a house in Miramar. The film is currently lost....

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

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 publicly shown once....

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