Mário Barroso Movies

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...

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

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

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...

A young woman is sure that her son is alive

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...

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...

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

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party...

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...

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

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...

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.

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

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

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

The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to...

The film follows Duke and Olivia , a troubled couple living in a gloomy city. Duke is a failed, alcoholic saxophonist, while Olivia works as a...