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Manoel de Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal on December 11, 1908, to Francisco José de Oliveira and Cândida Ferreira Pinto. His family were wealthy industrialists. Oliveira attended school in Galicia, Spain and his goal as a teenager was to become an actor. He enrolled in Italian film-maker Rino Lupo's acting school at age 20, but later changed his mind when he saw Walther Ruttmann's documentary Berlin: Symphony of a City. This prompted him to direct his first film, also a documentary, titledDouro, Faina Fluvial (1931). He also acted in the second Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa (1933). His first feature film came much later, in 1942. Aniki-Bóbó, a portrait of Oporto's street children, was a commercial failure when it opened, and its merit only came to be recognised over time. This drawback forced Oliveira to abandon other film projects he was involved in, and to dedicate himself to running his family vineyard. He re-emerged onto the film scene in 1956 with The Artist and the City, a work that marked a turning point in Oliveira's conception of the cinema. In 1963, O Acto de Primavera (The Rite of Spring), a documentary depicting an annual passion play, marked a turning point for his career. This was shortly followed by A caça (The Hunt), a grim feature film that contrasted with the happy tones of his previous documentary. Despite the widespread acclaim garnered by both films, he would not return to the director's seat until the 1970s. Since 1990 (when he turned 82), he has made at least one film each year. Oliveira has said that he direct movies for the sheer pleasure of doing it, regardless of critical reaction. He maintains a quiet life away from the spotlights, despite multiple honours such as those of the Cannes, Venice and Montreal film festivals. He has been awarded two Career Golden Lions in 1985 and 2004 and a golden palm for his lifetime achievements in 2008.
Most Popular Manoel de Oliveira Trailers
Total trailers found: 87
13 May 2001
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.
03 February 1938
Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto.
30 October 1992
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
09 December 1988
An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.
06 July 2012
An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.
06 July 2015
On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films.
14 December 2015
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro.
04 May 2015
A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
12 December 1932
A look at various statues in the city of Lisbon. This film is incomplete and was distributed against the will of the director.
31 January 1932
Filmed with the same camera and the film stock remains of Douro, Faina Fluvial, portrays the inauguration of the hydroelectric power plant of Ermal, owned by Manoel de Oliveira's father.
28 September 1984
Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of Portuguese culture.
31 October 2007
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 state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
07 June 2013
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
09 September 2004
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles.
25 March 2011
Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film.
28 January 1986
A documentary following the process of sculpting in stone, from the creation to the final work of art.
02 January 1928
Aninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the multitude that goes on a pilgrimage to the village where, ten years before, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three child sheepherders.
16 December 1994
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.
13 July 2025
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World.
10 September 1997
In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back.
21 September 2008
Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.
03 September 1964
A look at the life in the small village Vilaverdinho, in the North of Portugal. Oliveira made this film as a present for a friend.
08 June 2015
Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.
31 August 2003
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean.
03 December 1981
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
14 May 1981
Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
21 May 2006
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
12 October 1990
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.
19 May 1998
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death.
01 January 2006
A conversation between the filmmaker Manoel de Olivieira and the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís, filmed in December 2005.
08 September 2006
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle de Jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert.
18 December 1942
Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha.
01 January 1937
A series of images documenting the floods of the river Tagus. This film has been recovered and made available by the Cinemateca Portuguesa.
10 November 1988
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.
06 September 1995
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.
29 December 2010
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica.
17 May 2002
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
26 October 2007
Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then].
27 June 1996
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
25 September 1986
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise.
22 June 1938
The film exhibited the community and the beach, "how I new and it was shown to me" (Manoel de Oliveira) by the Meneres family, that had a house in Miramar.
08 January 1986
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America.
30 April 2009
On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.
17 November 2000
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
01 October 2011
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
28 November 1959
Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills – traditional or industrial ones – manipulation of the flour into actual bread, transport to a variety of locations and consumers.
22 September 1999
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love.
07 November 1933
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated.
29 November 1963
Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul.
27 July 2014
Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque Française—recounting his influence on their lives, his role in preserving film history, and his enduring impact on world cinema.
10 September 2012
Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family.
16 May 1997
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.
09 March 2006
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda.
01 September 1993
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr.
26 June 2013
Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.
18 November 1994
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
11 October 1991
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
