Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in... See full summary »
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. ... See full summary »
Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Stars:
Michel Piccoli,
Catherine Deneuve,
John Malkovich
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to ... See full summary »
Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Stars:
Leonor Silveira,
Cécile Sanz de Alba,
Luís Miguel Cintra
Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden, and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Stars:
Leonor Silveira,
Filipa de Almeida,
John Malkovich
38 years after their last encounter, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine in a concert. He follows her and sadistically takes out a slow and painful revenge.
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro ... See full summary »
Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Stars:
Chiara Mastroianni,
Pedro Abrunhosa,
Antoine Chappey
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Stars:
Luís Miguel Cintra,
Diogo Dória,
Miguel Guilherme
Patients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.
Director:
Manoel de Oliveira
Stars:
Maria de Medeiros,
Miguel Guilherme,
Luís Miguel Cintra
During a Q&A session at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (2012), Claudia Cardinale revealed that the film was shot over a period of 25 days. The film heavily employs the use of long takes, and there were only a few takes for each scene. See more »
