Mário Barroso Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the...

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...

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.

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