Movies: Manoel de Oliveira

  • 2007
    To Each His Own Cinema

    To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

    To Each His Own Cinema

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    Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the...

    To Each His Own Cinema
  • 1994
    Lisbon Story

    Lisbon Story (1994)

    Lisbon Story

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    Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him....

    Lisbon Story
  • 2010
    The Strange Case of Angelica

    The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

    The Strange Case of Angelica

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    A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. Fr...

    The Strange Case of Angelica
  • 1993
    Abraham's Valley

    Abraham's Valley (1993)

    Abraham's Valley

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    Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to ...

    Abraham's Valley
  • 2003
    A Talking Picture

    A Talking Picture (2003)

    A Talking Picture

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    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 day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter a...

    A Talking Picture
  • 2009
    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

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

    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
  • 1990
    No, or the Vain Glory of Command

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command

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    Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973....

    No, or the Vain Glory of Command
  • 1933
    A Song of Lisbon

    A Song of Lisbon (1933)

    A Song of Lisbon

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    Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from t...

    A Song of Lisbon
  • 1995
    The Convent

    The Convent (1995)

    The Convent

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    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....

    The Convent
  • 2001
    I’m Going Home

    I’m Going Home (2001)

    I’m Going Home

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    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. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...

    I’m Going Home
  • 1979
    Doomed Love

    Doomed Love (1979)

    Doomed Love

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

    Doomed Love
  • 1942
    Aniki-Bóbó

    Aniki-Bóbó (1942)

    Aniki-Bóbó

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    Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha....

    Aniki-Bóbó
  • 1988
    The Cannibals

    The Cannibals (1988)

    The Cannibals

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    This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanti...

    The Cannibals
  • 1981
    Francisca

    Francisca (1981)

    Francisca

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

    Francisca
  • 1997
    Voyage to the Beginning of the World

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World

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    Manoel is an 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 process remembers his own youth....

    Voyage to the Beginning of the World
  • 1963
    The Green Years

    The Green Years (1963)

    The Green Years

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    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 young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois t...

    The Green Years
  • 1931
    Working on the Douro River

    Working on the Douro River (1931)

    Working on the Douro River

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

    Working on the Douro River
  • 1964
    The Hunt

    The Hunt (1964)

    The Hunt

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    Two friends decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. T...

    The Hunt
  • 1991
    The Divine Comedy

    The Divine Comedy (1991)

    The Divine Comedy

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    In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy....

    The Divine Comedy
  • 2006
    Belle Toujours

    Belle Toujours (2006)

    Belle Toujours

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    38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her....

    Belle Toujours