Manoel de Oliveira
December 11, 1908 · 117 years old
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…
Known For
13 titles
To Each His Own Cinema
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
The Strange Case of Angelica
A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.
Abraham's Valley
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 the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, bu...
Os Verdes Anos
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housem...
Labor on the Douro River
A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
Gebo and the Shadow
Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.
Francisca
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
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. He tells stories about Fellini and De Si...
Anxiety
They are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. He has his work cut out for him. When the...
O Princípio da Incerteza
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Past and Present
Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.
