In this stylish exercise in magic realism, Isaac (Ricardo Trêpa) is a photographer who is contacted during a stormy night...
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La mere
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2010
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Woman on Train
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2010
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Adapted from author Agustina Bessa-Luis' novel The Soul of the Righ, writer/director Manoel de Oliveira's Magic Mirror...
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Alfreda
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2007
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This delicate and haunting fable from elder statesman of Portuguese filmmaking Manoel de Oliveira has been intepreted in many...
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Rosa Maria
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2004
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Manoel de Oliveira's The Uncertainty Principle is based, like several other of the director's films, on the writing of...
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Vanessa
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2002
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2001
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A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career in this drama with comic...
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2001
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Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this...
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Queen Christina
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2000
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Veteran Portuguese director Manoel Oliveira brings the events and characters of a famous 17th-century French novel, La...
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The Nun
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1999
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The 89-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira wrote and helmed this Portuguese-French-Spanish-Swiss co-production,...
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Suzy ["Suzy"]
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1998
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Octogenarian film director Manoel de Oliveira travels autobiographical avenues in this portrait of a film director Manoel...
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Judite
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1997
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This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of...
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Leonor
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1996
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The musings of internationally renowned Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveiera on the power of thought and desire, and on...
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Piedade
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1995
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In this short drama, fraternal twins Armando and Beatriz are on their own together. They share many things in common, and...
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Leonor
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1993
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In this artful film by 85-year old director Manoel de Oliveira, the heroine, instead of being powerless in the face of a...
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Ema Cardeano Paiva
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1993
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This is the "air" segment of a proposed four-element dramatic series planned by director Joao Botelho, and could be...
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1993
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In this symbolic and philosophically weighty film, all of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious...
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Eve
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1991
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1991
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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...
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Marguerite
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1988
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