Mário Barroso Movies

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...

A drama of passion and social conscience.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.

A journey inside the tram crossing the city of Lisbon while listening to fragments of Fernando Pessoa's poetry.

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...

There is a special brigade dedicated to camera thefts in Lisbon. Few cameras are found, although sometimes tapes are thrown in the gutter like lost...

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

Explores prejudice against working women.

A young woman is sure that her son is alive

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