Mário Barroso Movies

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...

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

"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...

Explores prejudice against working women.

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...

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 drama of passion and social conscience.