Mário Barroso Movies

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's...

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...

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...

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

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

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in...

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.

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped...

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...

Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents...

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

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...

A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

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

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long...

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

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...