Canto e Castro Movies

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from...

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda,...

Manô, an obscure and anonymous character from popular comedies of the 1920s, escapes the destruction of an old movie studio, materializing into...

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her...

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic...

A couple in search of a different life, move from the city to the countryside and confront unexpected events without breaking their union.

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.

Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

António, a factory worker of immense musical talent, is discovered by a business man who launches him as a singer. Nevertheless, this changes...

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be...

Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country...

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his...

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town....

A prophetic young woman Ana receives a foreboding vision about her father, dismisses it as superstition, and is devastated when it comes true. She...