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
8 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.
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...
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.
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.
