Mário Castanheira Movies

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

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...

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

A couple watches a bank robbery live on TV.

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

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

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...

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

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...

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....

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