Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy...

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his...

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

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

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

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...

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...

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

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...

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

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

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...

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

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

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

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

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.

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

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