Mário Barroso 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...

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

"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...

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

The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to...

The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.

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...

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

Two women that everything opposes, a luxury prostitute and an unemployed intellectual, meet on the landing they share. Against all odds, they become...

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...

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...

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...

Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her...

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party...

There is a special brigade dedicated to camera thefts in Lisbon. Few cameras are found, although sometimes tapes are thrown in the gutter like lost...

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.

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...

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the...

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