Mário Barroso Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

"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...

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with...

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...

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

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

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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 young woman is sure that her son is alive

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