Mário Barroso Movies

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

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize 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...

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...

During the Nazi regime in France in World War II, Pastor Fontaine and the town of Chambon undertake a mission to protect and shelter the children of...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

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

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has...

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...

"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...

Two women that everything opposes, a luxury prostitute and an unemployed intellectual, meet on the landing they share. Against all odds, they become...

Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience...

A young woman is sure that her son is alive

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