Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...

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

Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal.

Film about Calouste Gulbenkian, produced for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

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...

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, according to a 16th century text.

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

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

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

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.

A silent film depicting a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Pope John XXIII is screened.

A group of tourists arrives to the historical center of Guimarães. The camera goes up over the shoulder of Alfonso Henriques' statue. The...

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...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

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

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

Every year the Viennale invites a famous director to produce a short film as the festival trailer. In 2014 the choice has fallen on the 105-year old...