Mário Castanheira Movies

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

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

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

A couple of traveling artists, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, who earn their living performing in taverns and cafes, arrive in the village of...

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

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

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...

After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors. His only...

A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.

Rute is a teenager like so many others: she goes to school, she has swimming lessons, she likes watching films and specially she loves to be online....