Mário Castanheira Movies

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...

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She...

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that...

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives...

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by...

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after...

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...

In an abandoned prison complex, without any basic conditions, a man survives like a wild animal. When his security and tranquility are threatened, he...

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...

A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father...

A couple watches a bank robbery live on TV.

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

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.