这是一部纪录片，纪录了葡萄牙多罗河横穿波尔多市的时候两岸的情景；有工人们卸船、装船的场面，女工劳动时的气氛，同时也记录了多罗河上的桥梁与缓缓流动的河水。写实却不乏浪漫，充满生活旨趣。
奥利维拉作为导演的第一部作品，受瓦尔特鲁特曼《柏林：城市交响曲》影响，用父亲购买的摄影相机拍摄而成。本片受巴罗斯助理导演发掘而得到放映，成为了这一时期葡萄牙电影的代表作。

这部“民族志”式的叙事纪录片以极为先锋的方式展示了葡萄牙山村一次基督受难剧演出的完整过程，甚至包括导演与其剧组的拍摄以及村民的围观参与。
影片常被拿来与戈达尔、杜拉斯，甚或拍摄《葛楚》的德莱叶。奥利维拉认为这一次创作彻底改变了他的电影观念，从对现实的模仿转变为一种“简单”的再现行为。这部影片也作为先导，开创了葡萄牙电影的一条风格线索。

由年过100岁的电影大师曼努埃尔·德·奥里维拉执导，法国、葡萄牙合拍的电影《哥柏和阴影》日前曝光预告片。影片的时间背景被设置在了19世纪晚期，讲述了一个令人尊敬但是很贫穷的主角，牺牲自己以保全已经成了亡命之徒的儿子的故事。本片入围了第69届威尼斯电影节非竞赛单元。

在奥利维拉那部美得让人心颤的杰作《聚会》中，那些内心欲望和禁忌交织的男男女女聚集在一个岛上，其间一男一女伫立在海边的礁岩上，下面是激荡的海浪，内心是激荡的欲望，女人看着一汪在岩石上凿出的泳池说：“看看这个游泳池。是在岩石上挖成的。这是我丈夫的母亲送给她儿子的礼物。在我看来，它象征着女人的子宫。”而男人只是回答：“我对种种象征都无动于衷。您喜欢赌博吗？”女人的回答是：“不喜欢，我喜欢散步。”这个男人对这个女人的询问与回答，这个女人对这个男人陈述与回答，都包裹着欲望的攻击和对欲望的遮掩和逃避。人在自己欲望面前的审慎和闪躲，直接指点出这些欲望本身的虚饰和沉沦，这个世界变得如此暧昧和纠缠，那些低垂在耳边被语言所裹胁的欲望，被语言所放逐的欲望，成为从红唇中吹出话语，内心的陈述看似整洁和典雅，但是一如碎片和泡沫交待给我们对自己历史的测不准的回忆，对现实的测不准的把握，对未来的测不准的忧郁。这就是奥利维拉对情感世界的展示，在静寂中还原情感运动的紊乱了的轨迹，这个轨迹向一条无法测准的曲线。——cinekino

2006 film by Manoel de Oliveira

It is Manoel de Oliveira's first feature-length film. Mostly children, from Oliveira's hometown, Porto, play in its story. Aniki-Bóbó is a rhyme from a children's game, akin to Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

多罗河岸的一帮孩子迎来了他们的新成员。这个害羞的男孩不得不偷一个玩偶以获得接纳。他爱上了帮派里唯一的女孩，但她同时也是“老大”的心头好。奥利维拉作为导演的第一部作品，受瓦尔特鲁特曼《柏林：城市交响曲》影响，用父亲购买的摄影相机拍摄而 成。本片受巴罗斯助理导演发掘而得到放 映，成为了这一时期葡萄牙电影的代表作。
　　“点指兵兵”是意大利街头的儿童游戏，奥利维拉几乎完全任用非专业儿童演员，演绎了关于“愧疚与恐惧、欲望与越轨”的故事 ,超前地作出类新现实主义的实践，被认为是葡萄牙 20世纪40 年代最杰出的影片。

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

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

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

唯一由默片拍到現在的導演，迪‧奧利菲拉可說是活動電影博物館了。大師一百歲又生猛出招啦！這一招是個完美無瑕的道德故事，玩卡夫卡式的寓言不止，更曲筆擺出華麗古典版布紐爾格局。倒楣的馬加里奧一見鍾情對窗金髮女，但當美人被追到手，情卻隔了幾重山：叔父的反對、經濟的拮据，最後竟是金髮女的問題。生命果然是個謎。最精彩的是爐火純青的畫面，伺機同你暢遊葡萄牙文化藝術，文學金句、音樂、名畫……讓你飽覽而回。
O incansável Manoel de Oliveira, com mais de 100 anos, começou a sua carreira no tempo do cinema mudo. O seu filme mais recente, uma adaptação de um conto do século XIX, é, sem dúvida, um dos mais interessantes dos últimos anos. A premissa é simples: num comboio, um homem conta a sua história de amor e desilusão a uma atenta dama de meia-idade. O seu objecto de desejo? A rapariga loura que dá o nome ao filme. Embora em estilo de fábula, breve e divertida, o significado intelectual torna esta surpreendente estória tão moderna quanto anacrónica.
The tireless Manoel de Oliveira, now over 100 years old, can trace his directorial career back to the silent era. His newest film, an adaptation of a 19th century short story, is easily one of his most enjoyable in recent times. The premise is simple: while on the train, a man recounts his tale of love and woe to a receptive middle-aged lady. His object of desire? The titular blond-haired girl. Though fable-like, droll and brief, the intellectual heft makes this surprising tale both modern and anachronistic.

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 style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger, and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.

在曼努艾尔．德．奥利维拉1997年的作品《世界起点之旅》中，他请意大利著名演员马尔塞洛．马斯特罗亚尼扮演一个年老的导演，其实就是扮演他自己，影片几乎是一部纪录片，摄影机漫游在公路、河畔，以及绿荫繁茂的林间的那座童年的豪华旅馆，现在那些只是残墙断垣建筑被老人的笑容唤醒。在追寻自己记忆的过程中，导演在路旁一个民舍门前驻足，他发现了一座小小的雕像，一个戴着帽子的男人永远扛着一根大木头。乡人告诉导演一首相关的民谣：“我是彼德罗．马考；我背上背一根大木头；许多人从这里经过；有的是一幅白色嘴脸；另一些是一幅黑色嘴脸，但是，……谁都不带我脱离苦海！”在影片的结尾的最后的镜头，导演对助手说：“你也是一个彼德罗．马考，永远不能脱离苦海”。这也是奥立维拉对自己的感叹，他一辈子探求着那测不准的人类情感世界的原理，一辈子脱离不了这个苦海。那年奥利维拉快90岁了，而2002年他93岁的时候拍摄出的最新作品的片名就是《测不准原理》。

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 poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

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, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.

In this symbolic and philosophically weighty film, all of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious delusions of one kind or another -- even the cynic who denies the value of any religions at all. One couple re-enacts the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and then the woman who played at being Eve plays at being St. Teresa de Avila. Another man thinks he's a character from a Dostoyevsky novel, and yet another claims to have in his possession a fifth gospel from the Bible. Everyone has a point of view and is not shy about stating it, defending it in debate with the others with great sincerity, though (the reviewers claimed) with very little elegance or wit. (Clarke Fountain)
What would've happened if Lazarus met Nietzsche? The man who raised from the deads and the man who killed God are but two faces of the same soul. Oliveira let the books talk about human greatness and misery.
If you are not interested in the theological debate, don't waste your time here. But if you're not interested, you're already wasting your time. (Dionysis)

2007 anthology film of 34 short films