Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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...

From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Through Luís de Camões and Prince...

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

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.

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...

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

Momento marks a second encounter between Manoel de Oliveira and the singer-songwriter Pedro Abrunhosa, whose song of the same name inspired...

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

A look at various statues in the city of Lisbon. This film is incomplete and was distributed against the will of the director.

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

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

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

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...

A conversation between the filmmaker Manoel de Olivieira and the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís, filmed in December 2005.

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

Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal,...

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