Movies

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious...

Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident...

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan...

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha.

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

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...

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...

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...

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.

Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.