Manoel de Oliveira Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's...

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

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

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

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