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. ...

Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: ...

A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Late one night, Isaac is ...

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of ...

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father’s friend, ...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the ...

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

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. ...

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her ...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Manoel de Oliveira’s autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and ...

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 ...

The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in ...

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan ...

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a ...

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, ...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to ...

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 ...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.