Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

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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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the fr...

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...

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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...

The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and rhythm of the cinematography....