Poll: Manoel de Oliveira 1908-2015

Results of 275 votes:

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   The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

    

   A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.
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   The Convent (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…
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   Abraham's Valley (1993)

    

   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 o…
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   The Uncertainty Principle (2002)

    

   Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
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   O Velho do Restelo (2014)

    

   Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.
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   Belle toujours (2006)

    

   38 years after the original story (Belle de Jour), Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night in a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and with sadism takes a slow and painful reve…
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   I'm Going Home (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.
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   Aniki Bóbó (1942)

    

   The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough"…
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   Pedro Abrunhosa: Momento (2002)

    

   Music video made for Pedro Abrumhosa
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    Party (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. The int…
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    Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)

     

    A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.
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    The Divine Comedy (1991)

     

    In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, …
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    Magic Mirror (2005)

     

    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 was to see the Virgin Mary
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    No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)

     

    Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.
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    Nice - À propos de Jean Vigo (1983)

     

    Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.
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    Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)

     

    Manoel is 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 re…
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    Anxiety (1998)

     

    An anthology film drama featuring three tales linked by the theme of death.
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    Memories and Confessions (1993)

     

    A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira's life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal. Yet to be released as Oliveira wished no one to see it until he was death.
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    The Cannibals (1988)

     

    A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.
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    A Talking Picture (2003)

     

    A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul,…
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    Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007)

     

    A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.
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    Porto of My Childhood (2001)

     

    This autobiographical film tells the story of director Manoel de Oliveira's youth in his beloved Oporto, Portugal.
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    Labor on the Douro River (1931)

     

    A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Oporto.
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    The Letter (1999)

     

    A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poe…
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    The Satin Slipper (1985)

     

    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 sent to Africa to rule the ci…
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    The Fifth Empire (2004)

     

    Set mainly in one room, King Sebastian of Portugal converses with his counselors, court jesters, his grandmother and Simão Gomes, a 16th century visionary
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    Francisca (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.
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    Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975)

     

    Benilde, a girl brought up in a very religious environment, is kept by her father on a remote farm, away from the world.
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    Word and Utopia (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.
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    Day of Despair (1992)

     

    Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
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    The Box (1994)

     

    Stories about neighboring in Lisbon are told by a homeless blind man who's only means of support is his elm box.
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    Past and Present (1972)

     

    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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    Rite of Spring (1963)

     

    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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    My Case (1986)

     

    Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philoso…
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    Gebo and the Shadow (2012)

     

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