Mário Barroso Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of...

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...

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...