Mário Barroso Filmes

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

"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...

A young woman is sure that her son is alive

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

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.

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