Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

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

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

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...

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...

A documentary following the process of sculpting in stone, from the creation to the final work of art.

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...

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

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

A special surreal encounter between Nikita Khrouchtchev and the Pope John XXIII.

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

A series of images documenting the floods of the river Tagus. This film has been recovered and made available by the Cinemateca Portuguesa.

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...

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

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of...