Mário Castanheira Movies

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

A couple of traveling artists, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, who earn their living performing in taverns and cafes, arrive in the village of...

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese...

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.

A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she...

After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors. His only...

Rute is a teenager like so many others: she goes to school, she has swimming lessons, she likes watching films and specially she loves to be online....

Tiago is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine, he will fail once again. Between...