Mário Barroso Movies

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped...

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...

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with...

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents...

Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience...

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the...

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

A young woman is sure that her son is alive

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...

A down-on-his-luck architect and his handsome, successful colleague married to the woman they both love, drink a potion given to the former by a...