Manoel de Oliveira
Directing
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…
Filmography
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The Life of Mirrors
2025
A Century of Energy
2015
Visit, or Memories and Confessions
2015
The Old Man of Belem
2014
Chafariz das Virtudes
2014
Invisible World
2013
Historic Centre
2012
The Conquered Conqueror
2012
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
101
2012
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
Sem Cura - à saúde de Manoel de Oliveira
Sem Cura - à saúde de Manoel de Oliveira
2011
The Strange Case of Angelica
2010
The Panels of São Vicente de Fora: A Poetic Vision
2010
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
2009
O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
O Poeta Doido, o Vitral e a Santa Morta
2008
Romance de Vila do Conde
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
2007
Rencontre Unique
Rencontre Unique
2007
Belle Toujours
2006
O Improvável Não é Impossível
2006
Magic Mirror
2006
Conversazione a Porto
2006
Do Visível ao Invísivel
2005
The Fifth Empire
2004
A Talking Picture
2003
The Uncertainty Principle
2002
Moment
Moment
2002
Porto of My Childhood
2001
I’m Going Home
2001
História do Cinema Português
2001
Word and Utopia
2000
The Letter
1999
Inquietude
1998
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
1997
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Party
1996
The Convent
1995
Blind Man's Bluff
1994
Oliveira, l'architecte
1993
Abraham's Valley
1993
Day of Despair
1992
The Divine Comedy
1991
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
1990
Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi
Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi
1990
A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional
1988
The Cannibals
1988
My Case
1986
Simpósio Internacional de Escultura em Pedra
1986
The Satin Slipper
1986
Lisboa Cultural
1984
Nice - À propos de Jean Vigo
1983
The Conversation Is Over
1982
Francisca
1981
Cinématon XI
Cinématon XI
1981
Cinématon n°102 : Manoel de Oliveira
1981
Doomed Love
1979
Cinématon
1978
Doomed Love
1978
Benilde or the Virgin Mother
1975
Past and Present
1972
As Pinturas do Meu Irmão Júlio
1965
Villa Verdinho - Uma Aldeia Transmontana
1964
The Hunt
1964
The Green Years
1963
Acto da Primavera
1963
Bread
1959
The Artist and the City
1956
Aniki-Bóbó
1942
Famalicão
1941
Miramar, Praia das Rosas
1938
Portugal Já Faz Automóveis
1938
Os Últimos Temporais - Cheias do Tejo
1937
A Song of Lisbon
1933
Lisbon statues
1932
White Coal
1932
Working on the Douro River
1931
Fátima Milagrosa
1928