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Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Doria, Julia Buisel, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: Adapted from the short story by author Eça de Queiroz, Manoel de Oliveira's poetic drama tells the tale of a beleaguered man named Macário (Ricardo Trêpa) who recounts his romantic woes to a patient neighbor (Leonor Silveira) during a train ride to the Algarve. While working as an accountant in Read More
Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: Adapted from author Agustina Bessa-Luis' novel The Soul of the Righ, writer/director Manoel de Oliveira's Magic Mirror travels deep into the restless psyche of a well-to-do woman who longs to experience a divine vision. Previously imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Luciano (Ricardo Trepa) Read More
Actors: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Irene Papas, Catherine Deneuve
Synopsis: Elder statesman of Portuguese filmmaking Manoel de Oliveira directs the dialogue-driven drama A Talking Picture. Starting in Lisbon, the film involves a Mediterranean cruise with mother Rosa Maria (Leonor Silveira) and daughter Maria Joana (Filipa de Almedia). From France to Turkey, the tourists Read More
Actors: Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Silveira, Isabel Ruth, Ricardo Trepa, Ivo Canelas
Synopsis: Manoel de Oliveira's The Uncertainty Principle is based, like several other of the director's films, on the writing of Agustina Bessa-Luís. The film opens with a long shot of an old cathedral in the rain, as a young woman, Camila (Leonor Baldaque, the granddaughter of Bessa-Luís), surreptitiously Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Antoine Chappey, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Leonor Baldaque
Synopsis: A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career in this drama with comic undertones. Gilbert Vance (Michel Piccoli) is an aging but highly respected actor who, after completing a performance of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King in which he plays opposite Read More
Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Jorge Trepa, Rogério Samora, Antonio Fonseca, Agustina Bessa-Luis
Actors: Lima Duarte, Luis Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trepa, Miguel Guilherme, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based on Vieira's own writings. As the film opens, Vieira (Ricardo Trepa) is a missionary working in Brazil who, in addition to spreading the word about Read More
Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Françoise Fabian
Synopsis: Veteran Portuguese director Manoel Oliveira brings the events and characters of a famous 17th-century French novel, La princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette, to the modern day in this film about passion and matrimonial virtues. Mademoiselle de Chartres (Chiara Mastroianni) has her first Read More
Actors: Jose Pinto, Luis Miguel Cintra, Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: The 89-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira wrote and helmed this Portuguese-French-Spanish-Swiss co-production, an anthology film drama featuring three tales linked by the theme of death. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: Octogenarian film director Manoel de Oliveira travels autobiographical avenues in this portrait of a film director Manoel (Marcello Mastroianni) who is shooting on location in Portugal. During a break, one of the film's actors, Afonso, born in France but of Portuguese descent, travels to his Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira, Rogério Samora
Synopsis: This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Luis Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Duarte D'Almeida
Synopsis: The musings of internationally renowned Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveiera on the power of thought and desire, and on good and evil, provide the underlying themes for this interesting reworking of the story of Faust. The story centers on the unconventional American professor, Michael Read More
Actors: Joao Lagarto
Synopsis: This is the "air" segment of a proposed four-element dramatic series planned by director Joao Botelho, and could be considered as a companion piece to Joaquim Pinto's Das Tripas Coracao, which has a "fire" theme. In the movie, Miguel is about to have his seventh birthday. Already in his life there Read More
Actors: Leonor Silveira, Luis Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Synopsis: In this artful film by 85-year old director Manoel de Oliveira, the heroine, instead of being powerless in the face of a world ruled by men, finds herself to be far too powerful. Beginning when she was a child, Ema (Leonor Silveira as an adult) had the kind of looks and manner that could Read More
Actors: Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: In this short drama, fraternal twins Armando and Beatriz are on their own together. They share many things in common, and have formed a household together while they undertake their new duties as apprentice firefighters. Armando has begun a little fling with a downstairs neighbor, and Beatriz is Read More
Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Luis Miguel Cintra, Mario Viegas, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: In this symbolic and philosophically weighty film, all of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious delusions of one kind or another -- even the cynic who denies the value of any religions at all. One couple re-enacts the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and then the Read More
Actors: Luis Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Doria
Synopsis: 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 romanticism to popular, modernist and even Read More
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