Patients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.

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 remembers his own youth.

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...

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

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

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.

The city of Porto viewed by the intimate eye of Manoel de Oliveira.

They are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. He has his work cut out for him. When the cu

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 philosophical perspective.

یک رمان نویس زن سفری طولانی را برای بازدید از کتابفروشی که توسط همکار جوان‌تری اداره می‌شود ، آغاز می کند . سپس او به تنهایی از یک برج بالا می رود و با یک کارگردان سینما و همسرش برخورد می کند...

زندگی پسر یک افسر انگلیسی که به خود اجازه می‌دهد اسیر عشق شود که نتیجه آن فتالیسم و رسوایی است....