Favorite Manoel de Oliveira Films
Feature films only.
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1.
Je rentre à la maison
(2001)
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife... (90 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
2.
Aniki Bóbó
(1942)
People work on and around the Douro river, without paying much (71 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
3.
Abraham Valley
(1993)
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr... (187 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
4.
Os Canibais
(1988)
A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society. (90 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
5.
'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar
(1990)
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier... (110 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
7.
Mon cas
(1986)
Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective. (92 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
8.
The Strange Case of Angelica
(2010)
A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter. (97 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
9.
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
(1997)
Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso... (95 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
10.
A Talking Picture
(2003)
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean... (96 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
11.
Belle toujours
(2006)
38 years after the original story, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night in a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and with sadism takes a slow and painful revenge on her. (68 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
12.
A Caixa
(1994)
Stories about neighboring in Lisbon are told by a homeless blind man who's only means of support is his elm box. (93 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
13.
Magic Mirror
(2005)
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda... (137 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
14.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl
(2009)
A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blond woman that turns his life upside down. (64 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
15.
The Convent
(1995)
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese... (91 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
16.
La lettre
(1999)
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love... (107 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
17.
Word and Utopia
(2000)
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. (130 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
18.
Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma
(2007)
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. (75 mins.)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
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