Mário Castanheira Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese...

A couple watches a bank robbery live on TV.

Sophie left her homeland, the United States, after a secret tragedy. In Paris, she divides her time between an opera house, where she is the dresser...

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...

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.

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

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

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 is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine, he will fail once again. Between...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she...

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