Mário Barroso Movies

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

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

A journey inside the tram crossing the city of Lisbon while listening to fragments of Fernando Pessoa's poetry.

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

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

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

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...

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight...

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...

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little...

"Kilas" (a Portuguese misrepresentation of the English word "killers") is the nickname of a petty con-man who gets involved with a deadly ring of...