Best movies of Manoel de Oliveira

Actors : Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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.

Actors : Antoine Chappey, John Malkovich, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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. ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Susana Sá, Pilar López de Ayala,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Michael Lonsdale, Leonor Silveira, Jeanne Moreau,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

Actors : Leonor Baldaque, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trêpa, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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.

Actors : Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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 ...

Actors : Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória, Júlia Buisel,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.

Actors : Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Ruy de Carvalho,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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 ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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: ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Leonor Silveira, Jean-Yves Gautier, Diogo Dória,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas, Diogo Dória,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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 ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Oliveira Lopes,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

Actors : Ricardo Trêpa, Jorge Trêpa, Manoel de Oliveira, Maria de Medeiros,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The city of Porto viewed by the intimate eye of Manoel de Oliveira.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Miguel Guilherme, Maria de Medeiros, Mário Viegas,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Glicínia Quartin, Ruy de Carvalho, Beatriz Batarda,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Stories of various individuals living in a poor district of Lisbon are intertwined with the sad life of a blind street vendor whose only means of support is his elm box.

Actors : Leonor Baldaque, Isabel Ruth, Ricardo Trêpa, Leonor Silveira,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Actors : Leonor Baldaque, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Manoel de Oliveira,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Luís Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky, Fred Personne,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Miguel Guilherme, Glória de Matos,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

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