Manoel de Oliveira Movies

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

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

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.

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...

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

The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A satirical short film about technology.

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired...

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making...