Manoel de OliveiraFilmography

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Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

Do Visivel ao Invisivel

Crew: Director

Actors: Leon Cakoff, Ricardo Trepa

Romance de Vila do Conde

Crew: Director

The Fifth Empire - Yesterday as Today

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Luis Miguel Cintra, Gloria de Matos, Miguel Guilherme, David Almeida

Synopsis: A man who set out for Africa to fight in the name of Christ becomes an immortal legend when he disappears after confronting a Muslim sultan in director Manoel de Oliveira's adaptation of a play by Jose Regio. In the late 1570s, Dom Sebastiao (Ricardo Trepa) longed to establish a Portuguese empire Read More

Magic Mirror

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

Christopher Columbus: The Enigma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Baldaque, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Jorge Trepa

Synopsis: An amateur researcher embarks on a quest to officially establish Christopher Columbus' Portuguese roots, only to find his thirst for knowledge overpowering his initial mission in this historical drama from writer/director Manoel de Oliveira. The year was 1946, and America was the land of Read More

Belle Toujours

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trepa, Leonor Baldaque, Julia Buisel

Synopsis: Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira pays homage to Luis Bunuel's masterful exercise in surreal eroticism, Belle de Jour, with this latter-day "sequel." Years ago, Henri Husson (Michel Piccoli) lusted after Severine, a beautiful and innocent young housewife who satisfied her less than wholesome Read More

A Talking Picture

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

O Principio da Incerteza

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

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

Porto Da Minha Infancia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricardo Trepa, Jorge Trepa, Rogério Samora, Antonio Fonseca, Agustina Bessa-Luis

I'm Going Home

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Palavra e Utopia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

A Carta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Inquietude

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Party

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

The Convent

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

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

Lisbon Story

Synopsis: This beautifully photographed German drama is set in Lisbon, a major center for contemporary European culture, and offers insight into the nature of cinema. Sound recordist Phillip Winter is driving to Lisbon to meet his old friend Friedrich Monroe who recently sent him a postcard asking Winter to Read More

A Caixa

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Miguel Cintra, Glicinia Quartin, Diogo Doria, Ruy de Carvalho, Isabel Ruth, Beatriz Batarda, Felipe Cochofel

Synopsis: The human condition is examined in this Portuguese French film with opens with a warning that informs the audience that the following is not a documentary but a moral tale about the anachronisms of modern society. The story, set in an aging neighborhood filled with interesting characters, focuses Read More

Abraham's Valley

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

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

O Dia Do Desespero

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Teresa Madruga, Mario Barroso, Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Doria

Synopsis: This biographical drama was made especially to gratify devotees of the life and work of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. Chief among the writers' admirers is this film's director Manoel de Oliveira, who has devoted two earlier films to stories by him. Branco is considered Read More

A Divina Comedia

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

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

Non, Ou a Va Gloria de Mandar

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Doria, Miguel Guilherme, Luis Lucas

Synopsis: 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 draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the Read More

Os Canibais

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

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

O Meu Caso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Luis Miguel Cintra, Axel Bogousslavsky, Fred Personne, Wladimir Ivanovsky

Synopsis: In this experimental work, director Manoel de Oliveira puts in a few left-hand punches at the world of commercial cinema. The story opens with a stage play in which a costumed flapper (Bulle Ogier) is working her way through her scene when she is rudely interrupted by a young man. He proceeds to Read More

O Meu Caso - Repeticoes

Crew: Director

Le Soulier De Satin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Berangere Jean

Synopsis: With this 410-minute epic, Prolific Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira adapts the 7-hour stage play of Catholic playwright Paul Claudel. Two people -- Dona Prouheze (Anne Consigny) and Don Rodigue (Luis Miguel Cintra) have fallen in love but are honor-bound to renounce their passion for a Read More

Nice A Propos de Jean Vigo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Asked to contribute to a French television series on views of France through the eyes of foreign directors, Manoel de Oliveira chose Nice and its environs and is surprisingly negative and unconvincing. He notes that gambling is the main source of municipal income, the city lives mainly for Read More

Francisca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Diogo Doria, Mario Barroso

Synopsis: Manoel de Oliveira wrote and directed this historical drama about the lives of some of his wife's ancestors who were active in the first half of the 19th century. In order to put across this slower-paced era before automobiles, planes, instant television and radio news, and computers, Oliveira Read More

Conversa Acabada

Amor de Perdicao

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Christie Houser, Antonio Sequeira Lopes, Henrique Viana

Synopsis: This four-hour epic romance in the style of Romeo and Juliet is based on an 1862 novel by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. Set in the seaside town of Oporto, the romantic tragedy centers on the doomed love affair between two teens; Teresa (Cristina Hauser) and her lover Simao (Antonio Sequeira Lopes Read More

Benilde Ou a Virgem Mae

Crew: Director

O Passado E O Presente

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Manuela de Freitas

Synopsis: This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss Read More

Acto Da Primavera

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Director Manoel De Oliveira films the annual Passion Play put on by residents of a small country town in Portugal. The villagers are shown working the land before changing into their costumes and performing in front of tourists. Film footage of atomic bomb explosions towards the end of the feature Read More

A Caca

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

O Pao

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound/Sound Designer

O Pintor E a Cidade

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound/Sound Designer

Aniki Bobo

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Famalicao

Crew: Director

A Cancao de Lisboa

Douro, Faina Fluvial

Crew: Director

Fatima Milagrosa