Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1990 Oliveira akatungamira "Kwete, kana Kubwinya Kusina Maturo kweKuraira" ("Kwete, kana a Vã Glória de Mandar"), inotamba Cintra, Dória naSilveira. Firimu racho rinoratidza nhoroondo yechiuto chePortugal, ichinyanya kutaura nezvokukundwa kwaro pane kukunda kwaro. Chiito chenhau chemufirimu chinosanganisira kuurayiwa kwaViriathus, Hondo yeToro, Hondo yeAlcácer Quibir
uye Hondo yePortugal yeColonial. Kunze kwezviitiko zvezvakaitika kare pane mufananidzo unoratidza chitsuwa chine ngano cheRudo, icho chinokudza vatsvakurudzi vechiPutukezi nevanovamba, panzvimbo pevanhu vayo vehondo. The Isle of Love ine cupids dzine mapapiro, nymphs dzakanaka namwarikadzi Venus. Iyi firimu yakakwikwidza pa1990 Cannes Film Festival. Muna 1991, Oliveira akaronga "The Divine Comedy" ("A Divina Comédia"). Yakagadzirirwa muchipatara chepfungwa, firimu racho harisi shanduro yebasa rakakurumbira raDante Alighieri asi rinobva munyaya dzeBhaibheri, mutambo waJosé Régio "A Salvação do Mundo", waFyodor Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment" uye "The Brothers Karamazov", uye "Antikristu" waFriedrich Nietzsche. Oliveira akataura kuti magwaro ose aanoshandisa "ane chokuita nenzira yakati nechinetso chechivi uye mukana wokudzikinurwa, uye mupfungwa iyi ose anobva kunzvimbo imwe chete pakupedzisira". Iyo firimu inotamba Maria de Medeiros, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira naDiogo Dória uye vakakwikwidza pa1991 Venice Film Festival, kwayakawana mubairo weGrand Special Jury Prize.