Manoel de Oliveira Movies

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a...

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

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

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

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

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident...

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through...

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

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on...

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

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

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