Manoel de Oliveira

All Movies of Manoel de Oliveira

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 Year

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  The Old Man of Belem (S)
  Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.
  Director of the film

   2014

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  6.0
  Historic Centre (Centro Histórico)
  A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal.
  Director of the film

   2012

• 
  6.0
  Invisible World
  An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
  Director of the film

   2012

• 
  8.0
  Gebo and the Shadow
  Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
  Director of the film

   2012

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  Agnès de ci de là Varda (TV Miniseries)
  Character: 1 episode, 2011

   2011

• 
  Biette
   2010

• 
  5.5
  Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
  A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blond woman that turns his life upside down.
  Director of the film

   2009

• 
  6.7
  To Each His Cinema
  To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leadin...
  Director of the film

   2007

• 
  6.0
  Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
  From the 1940's to today, Manuel Luciano has tried to discover the true identity of Christopher Columbus. In his multiple trips between Portugal and the United States, always joined by his ever-loving wife, he has witnessed the ch...
  | Movie director

   2007

• 
  6.2
  Belle toujours
  38 years after Luis Buñuel's Belle de jour, two characters from the film meet again in the strangeness of a secret which was only in the possession of the masculine character and a knowledge that had become crucial to the female ...
  Director of the film

   2006

• 
  8.0
  Magic Mirror (Espelho mágico)
  Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with h...
  Director of the film

   2005

• 
  6.8
  A Talking Picture
  Rosa Maria, a young History professor, sets out with her daughter Maria Joana on a cruise that will travel through the Mediterranean to Bombay , India, where they will meet her husband. This pleasure cruise also serves for Rosa Ma...
  Director of the film

   2003

• 
  7.3
  The Uncertainty Principle
  Director of the film

   2002

• 
  7.5
  I'm Going Home
  After the deaths of his wife, daughter and son-in law, an ageing theatre actor cares for this grandson in Paris. When an American director miscasts him an adaptation of Joyce's 'Ulysses', he has to make a decision about his life.
  Director of the film

   2001

• 
  7.5
  Word and Utopia
  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 abolish slavery.
  Director of the film

   2000

• 
  6.3
  The Letter
  Having lived through her first disillusion in love, Mademoiselle de Chartres, agrees to marry Jacques de Clèves, a renowned doctor, even though she does not love him. In her heart, however, she rediscovers love when she meets sin...
  Director of the film

   1999

• 
  7.5
  Anxiety
  Director of the film

   1997

• 
  7.7
  Journey to the Beginning of the World
  Voyage To The Beginning Of The World brings together 90-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni, in what would be his last film. Playing a filmmaker clearly based on Oliveira, Mastroi...
  Director of the film

   1996

• 
  7.5
  Party
  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 enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa. The intriguing guests are an older u...
  Director of the film

   1996

• 
  6.0
  The Convent
  The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
  Director of the film

   1995

• 
  8.0
  Abraham's Valley
  Ema realises that she has the power to make things happen. Although she is married she takes three lovers, but all she gains is disillusionment...
  Director of the film

   1993

• 
  6.5
  A divina comédia
  Director of the film

   1991

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  Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series)
  TV Series (1988-Present Day).
  Character:  Self 1 episode, 1994

   1988

• 
  6.3
  The Cannibals
  A lovely maiden falls in love with an upper-class gentleman—but discovers his body is entirely mechanical—in Oliveira’s surreal musical collaboration with the Lisbon Opera House.
  Director of the film

   1988

• 
  7.7
  Francisca
  Director of the film

   1981

• 
  7.5
  Benilde or the Virgin Mother
  Benilde, the play's eccentric heroine, turns up unexpectedly pregnant but insists she has never been with a man. Her devout family and the curious townsfolk naturally fixate on immaculate conception.
  Director of the film

   1975

• 
  8.0
  Past and Present
  Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.
  Director of the film

   1972

• 
  7.7
  Aniki-Bóbó
  One of the earliest features by Portugal's most renowned director, it was also one of De Oliveira's best-known works for many years. Using the actual children of the area, the film follows the adventures of street urchins growing ...
  Director of the film

   1942

• 
  7.0
  A Song of Lisbon
  Vasco (Vasco Santana) is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts from Trás-os-Montes, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fair...
   1933