Direction: Manoel de Oliveira

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Cast António Sequeira Lopes · Cristina Hauser · Elsa Wallencamp · Antonio Costa

Plot TV miniseries (1979). 6 episodes. A story set in the beginning of the XIX century about a doomed love between to people from different worlds and its impact in their...

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Cast Manoel de Oliveira · Maria Isabel de Oliveira · Diogo Dória · Teresa Madruga

Plot A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira's life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

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Cast Maria Amélia Matta · Jorge Rolla · Varela Silva · Gloria de Matos

Plot Benilde, the play's eccentric heroine, turns up unexpectedly pregnant but insists she has never been with a man. Her devout family and the curious townsfolk naturally fixate on immaculate conception.

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Cast Manuela de Freitas · Maria de Saisset · Bárbara Vieira · Alberto Inácio

Plot 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.

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Cast Teresa Menezes · Diogo Dória · Mario Barroso · Manuela de Freitas

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Cecile Sanz de Alba · Rui de Carvalho

Plot Ema realises that she has the power to make things happen. Although she is married she takes three lovers, but all she gains is disillusionment...

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Cast Nicolau Nunes da Silva · Ermelinda Pires · Maria Madalena · Amélia Chaves

Plot Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, since and according to a 16th text.

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Cast Nascimento Fernandes · Fernanda Matos · Horácio Silva · Antonio Santos

Plot One of the earliest features by Portugal's most renowned director, it was also one of De Oliveira's best-known works for many years. Using the actual children of the area, the...

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Plot 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...

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Cast Teresa Madruga · Mario Barroso · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória

Plot Portrait of the last years of the XIX century's Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco

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Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória · Miguel Guilherme · Luís Lucas

Plot Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades...

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Cast Antonio Cruz

Plot A painter wanders around the city of Oporto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing.

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Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jean-Yves Gautier · Leonor Silveira · Diogo Dória

Plot Voyage To The Beginning Of The World brings together 90-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni, in what would be his last film. Playing a filmmaker...

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Plot A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Oporto.

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Cast Agustina Bessa-Luís · María de Medeiros · Jorge Trêpa · Leonor Silveira

Plot Nostalgic documentary by the nestor of (Portuguese) cinema abut his birthplace Porto with music, photos, historic pictures and acted memories of childhood. Erudite, charming film. When Oporto shared cultural capital...

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Cast Ricardo Trepa · Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Duarte de Almeida

Plot Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire...

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Cast António Rodrigues Sousa · João Rocha Almeida · Albino Freitas · Manuel De Sa

Plot José and Roberto are friends, and they decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into...

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Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Patricia Barzyk · Anne Consigny · Jean-Pierre Bernard

Plot 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. Meanwhile Prouhèze is...

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Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Michael Lonsdale · Claudia Cardinale · Jeanne Moreau · Leonor Silveira

Plot Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.